‘<name>’ is ambiguous in the namespace

There are times where this error appears in our web application, without a specific reason. ‘<name>’ is ambiguous in the namespace ‘<namespace>’ This error has the following error code Error ID: BC30560.

Avoiding the ‘A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected’

This is a common error that ASP.NET developers have run into many times. We will see in this article a few ways on how to avoid it, both in Web Forms and MVC.

Set mime types for web fonts in IIS

A typical @font-face declaration includes a .eot file, a .svg file, a .ttf file and a .woff file. If your IIS does not serve any of the previous file types, you need to set the appropriate mime type.

Handling server errors in asp.net

When we have a web application in production, there are times where some things go wrong and we have errors. By default we will get the “Yellow Screen of Death”. When the application runs in localhost, a lot of information comes up that is useful to find and squash the bug. But when our application [...]

Url rewriting in IIS7

This is a tutorial on how to implement extension-less URL rewriting with IIS 7.0. Using the URL rewriting module of IIS we see how we can write our own rules.