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This article presents my views and advice on how best to handle exceptions in an ASP.NET application.

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)".

BugSentry is Fire and Forget bug tracking for .NET. From the FAQ... How do I use BugSentry? * Install the BugSentry Client and generate a key pair. * Add a reference to the BugSentry Library to your project. * Create an instance of BugSentry, using your public key. * Call BugSentry from your error handlers. * Bug Sentry handles the rest. How can BugSentry help us write better code? No user in history has ever submitted a complete and accurate bug report. Bug Sentry makes sure you know about every glitch and bug without relying on users. How is this better than just logging the bugs manually? You can still log bugs in using the BugSentry interface, but BugSentry makes sure you get issue reports for the bugs your testers missed. You also get issue reports after the application is in production.

This tip outlines further tricks to resolve or work around this common bug.