Web Services

4 posts

A non definitive list of 64 html escape characters for currency

I recently had to integrate html escape characters for currency symbols on a project, and much to my surprise I could not find any good definitive list html escape characters for currency codes. These are also known as escape characters, character entities or extended characters.  I had to find them all more or less one […]

Less Accounting Review – a 10 part series – Introduction

I recently signed up with Less Accounting and I will be publishing a Less Accounting review  and experiences with the setup process here Introduction (this post) My accounting background The Signup Import QB File Wire Account Set Recurring Hook up Bank Account Hook Up Amex Account Less Accounting – One Week Later Less Accounting – […]

An awesome proposal application – Bidsketch reviewed

Description: In their own words, Bidsketch is  “Simple proposal software made for designers”.  I found that to be true.  It simplifies and organizes what often frustrates me most; writing proposals for new projects. With Bidsketch, you just log into the web app, feed numbers and descriptions into one of several templates, and then send if off to […]

How to fix the “The service cannot be activated because it requires ASP.NET compatibility” error

The Problem: You try to access your web service on IIS 7 and you get the following error The service cannot be activated because it requires ASP.NET compatibility. ASP.NET compatibility is not enabled for this application. Either enable ASP.NET compatibility in web.config or set the AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsAttribute.AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode property to a value other than Required. at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedAspNetEnvironment.ValidateCompatibilityRequirements(AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode […]