Thursday, August 23, 2007

ASP.Net 2.0 - Web App Disabled

Problem:

How to let users know the web app is down for maintenance?

Solution:

Create a file in the root called: app_offline.htm

The contents of app_offline.htm is information to inform the user the site is down for maintenance.

That's it.

When you are ready to come back online, rename app_offline.htm to something else.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects

Problem:

On the "Start Page" of Visual Studios 2005, their is a section called "Recent Projects." This section will list projects you've worked on previously.

How to remove unwanted projects from this list.

Solution:
1) Load regedit
2) Locate registry entry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList


3) Delete line items as necessay