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
After creating a new Razor web forms app I scaffolded in an existing database: Scaffold-DbContext "Server=<server>;Database=<db-name>;User ID=<username>;Password=<password>;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models And kept getting an error on the newly created entries: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields After ensuring I had added Entity Framework to the project using NuGet, I still got the... » read more
I can’t quite believe I’ve been struggling without Visual Studio Code all this time when I’ve been supporting the classic ASP sites we still run. Up until now I’ve been using the full version of Microsoft Visual Studio, hacking WinSCP to open the .asp files, and editing them there. It kind of works but often... » read more