If you are trying to map a new file extension in IIS 5.0, you may notice that the OK button is grayed out and that you cannot select it, and therefore you cannot add a new file extension mapping. There may be two reasons for this:

1) You may be trying to add a new extension mapping at the directory level and adding a * to the extension as in *.newxt - don’t do that. IIS 5.0 won’t tell you why it’s not letting you add the extension (IIS 6.0 will). Just remove the * and add .newxt where newxt is the name of your extension.

2) You have encountered a Windows XP User Interface bug. The button should not be grayed out it’s a well known bug. Just click the first textbox or click around the dialog and the ‘Ok” button should become active.

If you received this error while working with ASP.NET in Visual Studio (probably 2005) to create an assembly or HttpModule you’ll need to add a reference to System.Web.

You probably think you did this already when you added ‘using System.Web;’ to the top of the of the page like this:

But that is not adding a reference, that importing a namespace. To add a reference in Visual Studio to a non-web project, highlight the project in the Solution Explorer, right click and select “Add Reference’ from the context menu. A window will appear on which you’ll have to select the System.Web dll. You’ll have to find it by scrolling down the list.

In Visual Studio you should now see this in the Solution Explorer:

You can open up your myProject.csproj (This file is wherever you store your projects, usually in My Documents/Visual Studio…) in notepad to see the reference has been added:

If you’re not using Visual Studio you add the reference as a parameter when compiling with csc using the command line.

When working with a website, you can follow the same procedure to add a reference (you wont have to add one for System.Web), using the context menu or you can alter your Web.Config:

You can also use the main application menu in your toolbar. Project (or Website)>Add Reference.

paidcontent has the scoop on that thing falling apart. If it looks like a brick, weighs the same as a brick…maybe it’s a brick. The PS3 soon to follow.

I’m not a fanboy, I’m a big fan of Microsoft. But when something is doomed to fail despite the marketing hubris and mindless press releases and media coverage, you can’t just but feel the glee as it all comes around and minds meet reality.

Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, Client side, online, in your browser, whatever.

They all suck.

Basically you end up with something resembling an inbox with HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of unread news items. You have feeds you don’t read, but you don’t want to delete them because maybe someday you will read them (yeah right) or maybe it’s a friend and you’ll feel guilty.

Yeah guilt, that’s how I want to spend my free time. Technology so advanced it enables emotional hijacking. I introduced Bloglines to my coworker and she loves it. She uses it all the time. It’s fun at first, and maybe it is fun forever if you live on mars (40 extra minutes each day).

The other thing is you don’t get to see the cool websites. You know you don’t get to see their brand, it’s all diluted through that tasteless baby blue hue that is Bloglines. Sometimes I think I can smell the baby poop and baby powder when fighting with those horrible frames. It’s like a crib, a prison for babies, only more scrollbars.

It’s just too much. RSS Readers suck. I’m using Google Bookmarks and the gmarks Firefox extension to look at sites. Not a Google start page that takes ages to load whenever you start your browser, not that horribly ugly ‘My Yahoo’ (excerpts city).

Someone had to say it. Bookmarks are here to stay.