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ASP.NET: Prevent IIS 7.5 from overriding custom error pages with IIS default error pages
I’ve created a ASP.NET MVC 3 application with custom error pages for HTTP status code 404 (“Not Found”) and 500 (“Internal Server Error”). I registered my custom pages in the Web.config as follows: After deploying my ASP.NET application to an IIS 7.5 web server I was surprised by the fact that the IIS web server […]
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ASP.NET MVC 3: How to use the Unit of Work pattern with Unity 2.0
Update 2013-04-18 I’ve updated the EndRequest event handler to only commit the changes if no error occurred in the current HTTP request. In one of my last post, I showed how to set up the Unity 2.0 dependency injection container in an ASP.NET MVC 3 web application. In this post, I will show how to […]
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ASP.NET MVC 3: How to stream files to clients
Streaming files to the client is very easy using ASP.NET MVC 3: The following code snippet shows an exemplary controller action “Download” that streams data to the client. If the client requests this action (e.g. by using the link [YOUR_CONTROLLER]/Download) the browser will (depending on it’s settings) start downloading the data or open the download […]
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Dependency injection with Unity 2.0
Update 2011-07-03: I’ve written a new blog post “ASP.NET MVC 3 & Unity 2.0: Using XML configuration for design-time configuration” that shows how to use XML configuration to set up the Unity dependency injection container. Update 2011-03-28: I’ve fixed an error in the Application_Start method and added a sample Visual Studio 2010 project that includes […]
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CrashPlan PRO & Windows: How to connect to a remote (headless) CrashPlan PRO client running on Linux
To configure a remote (headless) Linux CrashPlan PRO client with a Windows system follow the step by step instructions below after you have installed CrashPlan PRO on your Windows and the remote system. Close the CrashPlan Application if it is open (you do not need to end the CrashPlan background backup service). Download plink.exe from […]
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Windows: Search for strings in files recursively
Recently, I found the findstr command on Windows system which can be used to search for strings in files (similar to find combined with grep on Unix). Here is an example that searches for the string “hello world” in all files in the current working directory and all subdirectories (parameter /s specifies recursive search): > […]