February 2008 Entries
According to the MSDN documentation for Finding the Metabase Path when Given the URL, such a facility might be useful because "When IIS servers host a lot of Web sites, a Web site adminstrator might not remember the metabase path of each site or virtual directory." Clearly, since I can't remember the metabase path of even the site root of my default website, let alone of every image file on my web server, I am not a real web administrator.
I've been working on the installation tooling for our web application product recently, finally getting round to upgrading it with IIS7 support. The setup tool is used to deploy different versions of our app onto sales demo and training machines, as well as onto real servers, so it has to handle a wide range of different deployment scenarios. We have to support deploying the .NET 1.1 or 2.0 versions of our code, onto anything from IIS 5.0 on a Windows Server 2000 machine to IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008, or onto desktop environments from IIS 5.1 on Windows XP...
Front of BBC News technology page this morning: "Game creators look to the future"... accompanied with a picture of a costume designed in 1977. From a film set 'a long time ago' (in a galaxy far far away). Ah well.
UPDATED July 5 2008: The intellisense file now supports JQuery 1.2.6. More Information ScottGu recently announced that VS2008 JavaScript IntelliSense no longer fails completely when it runs into JQuery, which is fantastic news - and an impressive testament to the flexibility of VS2008's JavaScript parsing abilities. Previously, merely referencing JQuery was enough to disable all JavaScript IntelliSense in VS2008, which meant that JQuery addicts like me had simply never seen how impressive this system really can be. But even though they've got over the crashing problem, the basic IntelliSense experience is still a little sparse, especially since JQuery...
All I did was call System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break(). You’d think I’d tried to trigger the launch of a global thermonuclear war: First, I get a few seconds of this: Hey, Windows, I have an idea of how to solve the problem: launch a debugger! But Windows has other ideas: Luckily I noticed the previous ‘user defined breakpoint’ message, or at this point I’d have assumed that the program had just broken. Well, let’s click the ‘Debug’ button... Woh – BIG dialog. Okay, let’s elevate the JIT...