Jonathan Cogley

Simple pluggable forum software

We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision. Build : The requirements were very simple and it could be developed in-house but who wants to write simple forum code Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:03 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Secret Server now supports ASP.NET 2.0!

Our product, Secret Server , now supports ASP.NET 2.0. Testing on ASP.NET 2.0 started with a horrible crash on the secret view page resulting in the typical "but it worked fine in 1.1?!". Here is the exception stack trace, we were seeing: Message: Collection Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:55 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Automatic reporting of client-side script exceptions

Error reporting is enormously powerful. Knowing when your customers are seeing errors is the first step to improving the quality of your application. In my previous post , I mentioned capturing client-side script exceptions while discussing a dreaded Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:25 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Working around global.asax at runtime

While this doesn't classify as great development practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix to a production site is just the right thing to solve a client's problem quickly. In our case, the problem was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:15 AM by jonathan.cogley | 1 Comments

Printable or ReadOnly pages in ASP.NET (code snippet)

You have an ASP.NET page that is full of great controls, functionality, etc. but now you need to print it or render a "readonly" view of the page. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a little ReadOnly property that you could flip to true on the page and Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:36 PM by jonathan.cogley | 1 Comments