This isn’t an unusual error, you can find a lot of answers on Stack Overflow, for example. For me I was using a simple WebClient client = new WebClient(); With a send like this: Stream data = client.OpenRead(arguments);StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data_to_send);s = reader.ReadToEnd(); And getting the error in the title. It said that the... » read more
I’m writing AMP versions of our news pages, and one of the problems is that the editors embed a lot of content, which just doesn’t work on AMP pages. Rather than write a whole new chunk of CMS I thought I’d see if we can work out a way to just hotswap them out with... » read more
After our server people did some MS SQL database restores from some old backups to find some data, some .NET websites we had on the server started showing an error. (note I couldn’t see the error and had to disable custom errors from remote only, see here http://tech.ralpharama.co.uk/1/viewing-errors-remote-machine-after-sql-restores-broke-sites Server Error in '/' Application. Cannot open database... » read more
Copy images between Amazon s3 buckets in memory only using Chilkat’s S3_DownloadBytes and S3_UploadBytes. Example classic ASP code. Function http_copy_bytes(contentType,bucketSourceName,bucketDestName,objectName,justFileName) Dim success, binaryImage ‘ Set up chilkat http Dim http : Set http = Server.CreateObject(“Chilkat.Http”) http_unlock(http) http.AwsAccessKey = AwsAccessKey ‘ your key http.AwsSecretKey = AwsSecretKey ‘ your key ... » read more
I had a nightmare recently with SVN refusing to update a file, then skipping a folder. Here’s what worked for me. SVN refused to update a particular file ‘template.html’ in a folder ‘newsletter’ deep in a tree. It just ignored it. Odd. I delete the file, template.html. Ran update again. Nothing, just says up to... » read more
I’m adding a few old things to this blog, this is pretty old! We moved from an old IIS 6.0 server setup with Classic ASP code sending bulk newsletter emails using CDONTS, to a new Windows 2008 R2 server in the cloud with IIS 7.5. We also moved to using a 3rd party SMTP service... » read more
Getting CDO.Message.1 error ‘80040220’ The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid. When sending mail? In Classic ASP and perhaps others you might run across this, it was driving me insane as it worked fine on other sites, but not on this particular one. We were running our sites on Amazon AWS, Windows Server 2008 R2. Solution: ... » read more
Note this is no longer what I do! I use Visual Studio Code After a bit of searching I found the answer. Add a new external editor in WinSCP (Options/Preferences/Editors/Add), With this info: External Editor: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe” /Edit !.! External editor opens each file in a separate window: not checked/blank Force text... » read more
For no reason a rebuild of a .NET MVC project created these errors that wouldn’t go away with restarts, cleans, running as administrator, etc: Error 383 Unable to copy file “..\root\foo\bar\thing\test.thing.xml” to “bar\thing\test.thing.xml”. Access to the path ‘bar\thing\test.thing.xml’ is denied As detailed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2895898/visual-studio-build-fails-unable-to-copy-exe-file-from-obj-debug-to-bin-debug The only thing that worked for me was the answer by https://stackoverflow.com/users/2435679/adrian-booth When... » read more