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This article shines the light on a bug I came across in the ASP.NET HyperLink control implementation. In particular, when using URL rewriting the HyperLink control's ImageUrl property can be, in certain circumstances, incorrectly rewritten. The good news is that there is a simple workaround that's made possible by the flexible architecture of ASP.NET.

The goal of this pilot is to provide you with direct access to the most requested hotfixes that are produced for our developer tools. A hotfix is a single package that includes one or more files that is used to address a very specific customer problem with a product. You'll find a description and download links below for the most frequently requested hotfixes for the Visual Studio 2005 suite of products.

For example, Microsoft released the fix for annoying bug in VS 2005: "You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005. ("One or more errors encountered while loading the designer" error)".

Both Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 cannot display transparent PNG images using the standard IMG tag. Here's a solution that uses a control adapter to output different HTML when the image to display is a PNG.

An application to manage support request with tickets and events

A workaround for the DrawImage border problem.

This article describes how you can create a web based interface to the Team Foundation Server for the purpose of submitting and tracking issues.

Calling unmanaged code from managed code is very simple, but there are some things to look out for, that even Microsoft ignores.

An article on how to deal with designer exceptions in Visual Studio 2005

This article describes how, under some circumstances, an ActiveX control event handler can cause COM objects to linger.

You may receive the error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Access Denied when trying to access a Webservice from your ASP.NET Application. This article discusses on the resolution for the same.