Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET

“The Best Practice Analyzer ASP.NET (alpha release) is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The tool can scan against three mainline scenarios (hosted environment, production environment, or development environment) and identify problematic configuration settings in the machine.config or web.config files associated with your ASP.NET application. This is an alpha release intended to gain feedback on the tool and the configuration rules included with it.”

Remote Desktop spanning two monitors

If you participate in the Windows Vista beta program and you use Remote Desktop, then you might want to have a look at the new RDP client. There’s a version for XP SP2 and 2003 SP1.

The main feature that interested me was that it now supports spanning multiple monitors. I’ve installed it on my XP SP2 box at home, and I can now connect to my XP SP2 box at work and have my desktop span across both of my monitors! I didn’t even need to install the new client on my work box to get this either.

The resolution limit is up to 4096x2048

Transactions and Unit Testing with NUnit (part 2)

The good news - I got the transaction unit testing code to work. Two traps that caught me out:

1. Make sure the test fixture class inherits from the class defined in the transaction library assembly.
2. Make sure your machine has a valid DNS entry! Turns out mine didn’t as I’d reinstalled the OS a couple of months back, and our Active Directory DNS had kept the old record with a SID for the old machine - hence the new install had a different SID and wasn’t allowed to update the DNS record. This had the effect that the remote server could not resolve my workstation to get the RPC conversation working properly.