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: Windows 2003

  • Detecting and Upleveling ASP.NET Pages for IE11

    It’s considered best-practice to do browser detection based on features rather than the more error-prone detection based on the user-agent. For example, see this Microsoft browser identification best practices article for how they suggest you structure your Internet Explorer detection scripts by making user of the ASP.NET HttpBrowserCapabilities Object. If you are interested in reading…

  • ASP.NET Doesn’t Detect IE11

    The issue of .NET 4.0 Web pages not rendering properly for specific versions of Internet Explorer is a repeat of the recent inability of the ASP.NET engine to detect IE 10 .  Frankly, I’m surprised that this continues to be a problem and that Microsoft has not come out with a long-term solution other than…

  • Quick and Easy Windows Shortcuts to Common Server Applications

    The other day I was working on a Windows 2003 SP2 server that was no longer displaying anything other than the Windows desktop. I could not bring up the start menu or even see the bottom menu bar.  This naturally was a problem because I wanted to set up a new Web site on the…