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I’ve long said when in doubt, turn on tracing. Sometimes "got here"-debugging is a great tool. I tend to use System.Diagnostics.Trace a lot in my code. Then I'll use ELMAH or Glimpse to get more insight. Lately though, I've been doing a lot of Azure sites and have been wanting to get at trace data ...

Running a site in the cloud and paying for CPU time with pennies and fractions of pennies is a fascinating way to profile your app. I mean, we all should be profiling our apps, right? Really paying attention to what the CPU does and how many database connections are main, what memory usage is lik ...

The HTML5 Audio tag is wonderful, right? Just works. This is the dream: <audio id="audioplayer" preload="metadata" type="audio/mp3" > <source src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/hanselminutes/hanselminutes_0363.mp3" type="audio/mp3"/>Your br ...

My blog and all the sites in and around it are a mix of .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4. This blog engine is currently .NET 3.5 and runs at http://hanselman.com/blog, but the application at http://hanselman.com/ (the root) is .NET 4. You can happily mix and match applications across .NET versions on a single ...

When you've got an idea for an app, it's likely that you've got the idea for that app in more than one place. By this I mean, you'll start with a phone app, then make a desktop app, then a web app. Or you'll make a game on one platform and then want it to work anywhere. In fact, with the rise of Xam ...

I had an interesting emailed question today. Here's a paraphrased one sentence version of the question: Why does an ASP.NET Runtime issue surface in IIS 8.0 Integrated Pool for an application we have run successfully on previous versions of IIS and classic mode in IIS 8.0 ? It's less interest ...

TL;DR Summary Sendy.co is a lovely and polished PHP app that uses Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) to send email on the cheap. It's easy to setup PHP apps on Windows Azure. Azure Websites don't support mod_rewrite so you port the rules to a web.config. There's a great Sendy web.config f ...

There's a new web conference happening in Vegas next month and you should join us. John Papa, myself and our friends pulled in the speakers from a combination of invitations and submitted talks. It's called anglebrackets.org and I hope to see you there. My friends and I miss the old Mix conference  ...

Last week Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and myself (with a raspy throat) were up in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus filming at Microsoft Virtual Academy. They've got a whole studio there so we spent the whole day presenting LIVE. There were several thousand folks watching live and interacting with  ...

Just about a month ago the IEBlog published a post to allow business to manage the update schedule for Internet Explorer 10. It says "this approach lets organizations control when they are ready to deploy IE10 to their Windows 7 users." I took from this that IE10 on Windows 7 was imminent. ...