November 2014 - Shane Bartholomeusz

Month: November 2014

Take ASP.NET website offline

Overview

There are times where you may need to take an ASP.NET application offline to perform maintenance.

In this post I’ll show you how to do exactly that using the out-of-the-box capabilities of IIS / ASP.NET.

Synology DSM 5.1 upgrade error – “DSM Update”

13th November 2014 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 0 Comments

The Problem

While trying to upgrade my Synology DS213J NAS from 4.3-3827 to 5.1-5004, I ran into the following error while using the automated update feature.

Resolve “AspNetHostingPermission” error

9th November 2014 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 1 Comment

So what do you do if you come across this error in Visual Studio?

System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type ‘System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’ failed.

The error typically occurs when you download files from an external source into your Visual Studio project. Windows will recognise the file came from an external source and restrict permissions.

Run a program in context of another user

8th November 2014 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 1 Comment

As a developer, there are many times where we may need to run a program in context of another user. For example, you may need to replicate an issue that a user encountered.

The RUNAS windows command line program is your friend. From the command line run the following command to launch a program in context of another user.

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Shane Bartholomeusz

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