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If you have to consume a Web Service that requires Basic Authentication, the normal flow of things is that the first request the client makes is unauthenticated. The server then response with an HTTP 401 response (‘Authentication required’). The client then sends the credentials to the server and the SOAP request goes through. That is [...]

This quick how-to shows you how to create and use certificates in a development environment for use with a self-hosted WCF service. This means that the WCF service is not hosted with IIS, but runs, for example, as a Windows Service. We will use the makecert.exe tool that ships with the Microsoft Windows SDK. The [...]

I have written a small HOW TO on how to use a Customer Membership Provider, a Custom Role-Provider and a Custom Membership User for username/password authentication in a WCF Service that is hosted in a Windows Service. The HOW TO includes a sample implementation of these providers. It also includes a complete Visual Studio Project [...]

If you ever tried to do some animation of tables or table rows with jQuery you will have found that this is not an easy task. The primary reason of animation ‘not working’ in jQuery for these kind of objects is that these elements are not block-level elements. In CSS that means that these elements [...]

Microsoft has released IE8 today. Get it here; http://www.microsoft.com/ie

As of today, my Xbox 360 (well, actually it’s my third Xbox 360… Ring-of-Death sound familiar?) has it’s own blog on the Internet…  Just as I thought things couldn’t get any stranger… It’s blog is on my blog roll on the right of this page, but you can also visit it directy at My Xbox 360′s blog. Check 360voice.com [...]

If you are a PHP Programmer, and you want to take advantage of all the cool stuff that Expression Web 2 has to offer, there are 2 configuration items you should set correctly. (e.g. ‘session_start()’ etc.) First, make sure to remove the BOM from UTF-8 encoded files; Click ‘Tools’, Click ‘Page Editor Options’ and make [...]

It’s just an annoyance I run into every now and then; you define an inline frame in an HTML page, but for some reason it just won’t automatically adjust to the size of the content. Here’s the fix I tend to use.

ASP.NET Globalization greatly eases the development of websites in multiple languages by using the language settings from the visitors web browser. This works great, but there are situations that you might not want to use globalization for all possible settings. For example, if you have an auction site and all currency values are stored in [...]

First, install the IIS7 Web Server on your Windows Server 2008 Core machine, including the FastCGI and some other (required and optional) components: Start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-CGI;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-Security;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel Download PHP from the PHP Web Site (http://www.php.net) and extract the files to C:\PHP. Please check if there is a php.ini file in the folder. If not, take [...]