The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration error

I’ve been working with ASP.NET MVC more for the past few months and I keep forgetting to write a quick blog post about this error message. I receive the following error message on almost all of my projects. The annoying part is that it compiles fine! The specified named connection is either not found in…

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Parsing Axho’s WoW (World of Warcraft) JSON feed with PHP

PHP 13.1.2011 12 Comments

A tutorial on parsing a JSON feed with PHP specifically for Axho’s feed for WoW guild info

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A generic error occurred in GDI+

ASP.NET 19.6.2010 No Comments

While working on a project recently, I was playing around with image resizing and cropping. While I’ve worked with this before, this was the first time I got into it more indepth. I suddenly encountered this error which I found to be horribly bad description for an error. After researching and testing my application, I…

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WCF published services returned “Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found.”

As I’ve finally gotten around to using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in recent projects, i got a test project setup fairly quickly which seemed to compile and run properly. I published the service to a test server and I encountered the following error Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found. The…

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Testing email from localhost with ASP.NET without SMTP server

Alot of the time when developing web apps, you need to send emails from your application. Developers need a way to test this and sometimes you can’t be bothered to setup a local SMTP server just for this purpose. Thankfully, the ASP.NET framework has a built in way for you to set this up so…

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Adding a check all box to check checkboxes within a row in a Gridview

When developing a gridview recently, the need to be able to have a check all button within a row on the gridview came up. At first I thought this would be an easy task, but it turned out that my first few ideas/attempts didn’t really work out. The key for this ability is that I…

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Webservices: “The request failed with HTTP status 401: Access Denied.”

I received this error recently when trying to setup web service authentication. This error shows up when anonymous authentication is not setup on IIS. To fix this error, follow the steps below. 1) Internet Information Services control panel 2) Right click your web site and select Properties 3) Select the Directory Security tab 4) Click…

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