Kevin Hazzard's got net? Blog

Kevin Hazzard's Blog Has Moved

W. Kevin Hazzard — 2/11/2008

I started using a new blogging engine in February 2008. The posts I made before the move are still here. But you should check out my new blog at this address instead:

http://www.gotnet.biz/Blog

Windows Services Can Install Themselves

W. Kevin Hazzard — 11/23/2007

Using the InstallUtil.exe utility that ships with the .NET SDK can be a real pain. It's rarely in the PATH so you probably have to hunt down the utility when your working on QA and production servers as I do. Installing a Windows Service should be easier. In this short article, I'll show you a way to make your Windows Services install themselves without needing InstallUtil.exe at all.

Using Fiddler2 Web Debugging Proxy with Firefox

W. Kevin Hazzard — 7/26/2007

Here's a cool tip. You can use Microsoft’s amazing Fiddler2 Web Debugging Proxy with Firefox and other browsers, not just Internet Explorer. Fiddler2 doesn’t work with Firefox automatically as it does with IE, but it can be made automatic without a lot of work. Jump to the bottom of this article if you just want the facts. If you want to know how it works, read on.

Dynamically Generating Sitemaps Using 404 Errors

W. Kevin Hazzard — 7/22/2007

Using Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), when you designate a page to handle HTTP 404 (Not Found) errors on a website, you don’t have to return an HTTP 404 error at all. Instead, you can build dynamic content and return it with an HTTP 200 (OK) result instead. This is helpful when you want to build a sitemap.xml file to enhance the search engine performance for your website. In this article, I’ll show you how I did this for the gotnet.biz site.

Introduction to Spring.NET Factories and AOP

W. Kevin Hazzard — 7/17/2007

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is cooler than the iPhone. I know it's hard to believe but it's just the truth. For the uninitiated, AOP is probably best described as software modularization taken to a whole new level. The Spring.NET framework has some fantastic AOP functionality built right in to facilitate Inversion of Control (IoC) through several very powerful object factory patterns. In this first of several articles exploring Spring.NET, let's examine how object factories are used to make Spring.NET's AOP and IoC containers really simple and powerful for solving everyday programming problems.