Fixing “The network connection to [My Computer] has been lost. Debugging will be aborted.”

Recently I found myself unable to Attach to Process to IIS in Visual Studio 2010 to debug a web application. It would appear to work but then I would see this lovely dialog box: This was confusing because the blacked-out PC name is my laptop that I was debugging from–I wasn’t using Remote Debugging, as […]

Cannot convert source type “MyType” to target type “MyType”

I recently installed ReSharper!. Today I was working on getting some old, previously ignored Unit Tests to pass for my current project. All of a sudden I noticed a nasty red squiggly underline on my actual = target.MethodUnderTest(input); call. Hovering over the offending code produced an error along these lines: Cannot convert source type Very.long.namespace.and.project.name.MyClass […]

Stop using the ASP.NET label control for arbitrary text/HTML!

With the advent of HTML 5 and the corresponding effort to write more semantically correct output from ASP.NET web forms, I thought I would write a quick post on this oldie-but-goodie. My point is that while many ASP.NET developers got in the habit of using the ASP.NET label control for any old text/HTML they wanted […]

Norton Internet Security: you have exceeded the number of activations allowed—and you are cut off!

WOW. I am shocked at the user-unfriendliness of Norton’s approach here. I had my Norton Internet Security automatically renewed last month. Although I was surprised at the price increase, I decided to live with it. Until today. Just now, I was working on an issue with Windows Installer on my desktop machine, when Norton suddenly […]