Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: Web Development

  • ‘CreateResourceBasedLiteralControl’ is not a member of

    When developing or deploying a Web site you may be confronted with the rather vague error message: ‘CreateResourceBasedLiteralControl’ is not a member of ‘PageName.aspx’. I encountered this error today while deploying a site to our production  environment. The surprise was that I did not see this error when working on my local machine or our development server.…

  • Visual Studio 2010: Web Application or Web Site Project

    When starting a new Web site project in Visual Studio 2010 one has the choice between creating a Web Application Project and creating a Web Site Project. These two different project types were introduced with Visual Studio 2005 and have stayed as options with the Visual Studio line. The differences between the two project types…

  • Generating Excel documents through HTML, XML, and CSS – Part 2

    Overview: The latest versions of Excel (2007, 2010) differ from Excel 2003 in their support of streaming a HTML document containing Excel-specific markup. Although core markup features still work, some of the previously supported functionality has now been removed. This directly affects the ability in code to stream a table to Excel and then use MSO…