Importing text files into a database is a common scenario. It gets more interesting though when you are required to import log files generated by ASP.NET’s health monitoring. We recently wrote a web application that receives and logs information via HTTP handlers. The logging was achieved using ASP.NET’s health monitoring. We wanted additional information to be included in the log entries however, so we implemented a custom event type by extending the WebRequestEvent base class. This allowe ... [Read more]

A new application we are currently building was occasionally throwing an UnauthorizedAccessException exception. Using the ASP.NET health monitoring we became aware of this very quickly. Having used the health monitoring for several past projects, we generally find it a very effective way to get information about problems, such as the exception message and stack trace. Unfortunately, the health monitoring event raised by the UnauthorizedAccessException exception did not contain any informatio ... [Read more]

Recently I've been spending a lot of time working on various SharePoint projects, none more challenging than the Citroën site launched earlier this year. I'm going to take the time to explain how we put together our web parts and server controls, particularly from the point of view of a WCM scenario where the complexity of our mark-up was significantly greater than that of a traditional "vanilla" intranet SharePoint due to the various accessibility guidelines we needed to adhere to ... [Read more]