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ASP.NET name mangling problem with JavaScript

One "problem" with ASP.NET is the automatic generation of names for form variables. Sure it is convinient – and more or less a must when it comes to templated databound server controls to be able to separate the different client side controls. And it works beatifully as long as you just stay on the serverside. Cause after [...]

Could not transform licenses file ‘licenses.licx’ into a binary resource

All of a sudden I got this strange error in a project I have been compiling say weekly for the last year or so – and I have NOT changed anything regarding which components etc it’s using.
However it turned out that once upon a time I used a thirdparty component (the error message suggested [...]

Error while trying to run project : Unable to start debugging.

After upgrading some components (which in my eyes were totally unrelated to Visual Studio.NET) I suddenly, when hitting F5 to start a debug session I got an error saying
"Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.The debugger is not properly installed. Run setup to install or repair the debugger.".
>From what I [...]

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

This was added in .NET framework 1.1 and basically it means that you can’t post values containing HTML ( or script ) tags to the server.
In other words – if you have a textbox and the visitor enters something like

<a href="http://games.aspcode.net">Play games!</a>

and then presses Submit button this error will occur since the posted [...]