Dot Net Monkey

I've recently been slapping together some ASP.Net code and had reason to work with ASP.Net paths.  It turns out it's not quite as trivial as you'd at first think.  Anyway, I found this article by Rick Strahl that makes a good resource

These guys at GeoBytes given an IP address can give rather specific information about where a computer is actually located.  Try it, it could be useful one day

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Related Resources
Geobytes IP Address Locator Tool

Everyone loves a good fiddle, and if you say you don't then you are probably lying.

Okay, enough shinanigans!  Fiddler is a Microsoft PowerToy that slots itself nicely into your HTTP stream as a proxy allowing you to have a look at all that traffic going to and fro.

There is a good MSDN article about configuring and running Fiddler which is well worth a read. Also from the Fiddler site there are some pointers to some good references.  Such as:

• HTTP Response Codes - pretty handy for working out what a 404 really means
• Header Field Definitions - understand what all that crazy header stuff means
• HTTP 1.1 Specification - if you read this you are a geek! (no exceptions)

So there you go, lots of great stuff about fiddling with yourself.

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Related Resources
Fiddler Powertoy
MSDN Article - Fiddler PowerToy Part 1: HTTP Debugging
HTTP Response Codes
Header Field Definitions
HTTP 1.1 Specifications

The other day somebody asked me if it is possible to return a business objects from a web service.  This got me to thinking about how this could/should be done.   For the record, I thought I would find some resources about this.  Here goes:

• Ryan Farley has a good blog entry about returning objects from web services
• Scott Hanselman doesn't like datasets as return types as indicated in his blog entry "Returning DataSets from WebServices is the Spawn of Satan and Represents All That Is Truly Evil in the World"

Referenced Links
Returning Objects from Web Services
Returning DataSets from WebServices is the Spawn of Satan and Represents All That Is Truly Evil in the World