Starting IIS Express from a right click in explorer

Apr 13, 2011

After publishing this for Starting ASP.NET Development Server from a right click in explorer it is time to do it for IIS Express.

Tonight trying out Orchard 1.1 I just wanted to start by right clicking and getting IIS Express fired so that I can test the 1.1 version.

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Disabling Silverlight addon in IE9 is not such a good idea

Apr 9, 2011

The other day I disabled Silverlight add-on in IE9. Don’t ask me why I don’t really remember, and I prefer not.

Several days after that I started an out of the browser application, ClickTime which we use to report our hours. And I got a weird JavaScript error a la IE with a white window and the picture asking me to install Silverlight. I checked that it was still installed and it was, no problem.

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Mounting a remote Linux folder as a Windows drive through SSH

Nov 27, 2010

There are some times in which you need to come to some extreme solutions. Having two days of trials without success to have a portlet running in a local Tomcat with Day portal I came to the following solution.

Shortly why I came to such a solution? I needed to work on some CSS on a portal solution, and the development cycle was taking too long. I had to commit to svn, run a teamcity build which deployed a war to weblogic to finally be able to test my CSS changes. Far too long.

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“Unable to evaluate the expression” error in Visual Studio 2010 debugger

Last week I had an issue in Visual Studio 2010 debugger in some projects only! When I was looking at the value of variables I was getting an error message saying “Unable to evaluate the expression”!

Searching on Connect I have found that someone else had the same issue! Not really a good sign, “Debuging (Evalutation) stops working at times - Unable to evaluate the expression”. I have the same configuration, same issue and can reproduce what is described:

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