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I ran into (another) interesting error today when using String.Format1. I was getting the error message "Input string was not in a correct format.". In this instance I was calling the content from an XML file, the data was wrapped in CDATA tags so there shouldn'

Sean Ronan (from Activepixels.co.uk) was asking me the other day why he was receiving a “Cannot convert ‘’ to DateTime” when writing: IIf(String.IsNullOrEmpty(DateOfBirth.Text), Nothing, CDate(DateOfBirth.Text)) Thanks to Doug Setzer from 27Seconds in pointing him in the right direction, unlike C#’s ability to

I know a fair few people have come across the error which, having a page called “Login.aspx” causes the error message “CS0108: 'ASP.login_aspx.Profile' hides inherited member 'Login.Profile'. Use the new keyword if hiding was intended.” But I’ve found another when

I came across an interesting anomaly last week with one of our new sites (http://www.missmays.com/ -not work safe). We first started developing the site in ASP.Net 1.1 and wanted to make it XHTML 1.1 valid so wrote a HttpModule that transforms the offending source

body { color: #000; text-align: left; } tr.subhead { background-color:#cccccc;} th { padding:3px; } td { color: #000; padding:0 3px; text-align: left } th.alt { background-color:black; color: #fff;; } ul{background-color:#FFF; } .alt { background-color:#eeeeee } .mp, .mp a{color: #006600;} .pg, .pg a{color: #000099;} .uc, .uc a{color: #FF6600;} .cc, .cc a{

I've just had it pointed out to me (and quite rightly so) by Craig that my code for enabling the trace with Phil Winstanley's WebException was a touch wrong. I was assuming that the user was (correctly imho) running the application with the trace already disabled.

We've been using Phil Winstanley's ASP.Net WebException handler for a while now it's great (see http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2004/04/17/114984.aspx) the problem with it was that we couldn't get access to the Trace in ASP.