Code Junkie

Have you ever had the need to test and run a webservice from a machine other then localhost (127.0.0.1)? I was recently debugging a webservice that was running fine locally and when run from the production server it was behaving unexpectably.  I remember reading a blog a while back showing how to remotleyy run a webservice. Remeber you will only want to do this for testing only and then turn it off in production. Original post (http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2004/07/16/380.aspx)

The first time I laid eyes on the lightbox image gallery I fell in love with the UI and presentation. Since then, I have been meaning to get around to jamming the js code written by Lokesh Dhakar into an ASP.Net control so that I can reuse at will.  Although my schedule doesn't permit me building a full blown server control, I did have time to hack together a working user control. In fact the day after I created the LightBox version I found LightView, a variation on LightBox, and quickly morphed and created a version for it. I don't think that there is anything extremely complicated with what I have implamented, so I will spare you the long drawn out explanation.  But, If I get enough questions or requests I may throw together something. If you have VS 2008, you should be able to unzip and run these websites as is.  You might need to modify the solutions VirtualPath to run from "/" if you are running the site through the debugger (Scott can tell you how to do this: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/19/tip-trick-how-to-run-a-root-site-with-the-local-web-server-using-vs-2005-sp1.aspx. It says VS 2005 but it is set the same in 2008).

If any of you haven't had the opportunity to check out Matt Berseth's developer blog, do it now. He has given me some great tips and inspired me to develope some cool things using AJAX, YahooUI and other .Net and Web2.0 technologies. Great articles I have implemented in my code have been: