I have been meaning to return to this since I first posted on it and gave my talk about the remote management of IIS 7 at NxtGenUG Southampton. Well I've finally gotten around to it. This error occurred when remote administration of an IIS 7 web site and/or application is delegated to an IIS 7 user, and that user attempts to alter a setting of the site/application from a remote machine. The
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Licensing Change
Posted on 3:00 AM by Unknown
I'm looking into the licensing for TFS 2008 for my employers as my team are looking to migrate from VSS to TFS (hooray) and I have been asked to take the lead in this work. With TFS 2005 anyone who was going to raise issues (bugs, requests, and the like) in TFS, even if using the TeamPlain web client, had to have a valid CAL. This was a bit of an expensive pain and meant that at my last company (
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Looking for a good developer
Posted on 1:07 PM by Unknown
Recently where I work we have been interviewing candidates for developer roles in our team. I have been involved in conducting some of these interviews and this has been causing me to reflect on other interviews I have been involved in, both as candidate and interviewer. Most of the candidates that I have seen, both recently and over the years, have been fairly strong when it came to their
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Using TextFieldParser objects and the My library in C# code
Posted on 3:25 PM by Unknown
I read this article on InfoQ (a great site for information for those that don't know it) and saw that there might be some confusion about whether this useful class could be used in C# projects. The answer of course is yes. Just reference the Microsoft.VisualBasic dll in your project and away you go.The My library is a little different it does a whole bunch of different things, providing both new
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Extension Methods - My new best friend*
Posted on 9:28 AM by Unknown
No that doesn't mean that I'm going to be [ab]using extension methods everywhere - though I suspect that extension methods could become the new singleton. That said I think that I am really starting to get them. Here's an example. Last night I'm doing some coding and I want to get some objects that I have written to serialise nicely to Xml. Now I don't want to give them public constructors as
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Price of .Net's Diversity
Posted on 1:47 PM by Unknown
.Net, since its' inception, has always tried to be a friend to everyone. A truly general purpose set of software development technologies. It offer both RAD and enterprise level development tools, dynamic languages, functional languages, type-safe languages, and OOP languages. With the Entity framework, Astoria, the DLR, dynamic data, and more shortly on the way the incredible breadth of the .Net
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Insufficient Permissions on web.config when delegating administration of a web site to remote users in IIS 7
Posted on 4:43 PM by Unknown
****** Note: This post has been revisited with new, and better, advice here! ******Preparing a talk I'm giving at NxtGenUG Southampton tomorrow evening on IIS 7s ability to allow the administration of aspects of web sites and web applications to be delegated to non-admins I started to get a really frustrating error."Error: Cannot write configuration file due to insufficient permissions"I looked
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