aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or password supplied in the processModel section of the config file are invalid.

I was running a WinXP box and all of a sudden I started getting a “Server Unavailable” error. I know for a fact that it had to do with the ASPNET account. So here’s what I did that did not help:
1. Give ASPNET account full control over your home directory2. Delete ASPNET account and ran [...]

Case insensitive XPath query

I wanted to do a case insensitive xpath lookup in my C# .Net application. There was no direct way that i could find to get the job done, but fortunately the workaround ain’t that difficult. Lets consider the following example:
<xml><books><book id=”1″ name=”Book1″ type=”fiction” /><book id=”2″ name=”Book2″ type=”nonfiction” /><book id=”1″ name=”Book1″ type=”FICTION” /></books>

To request for all [...]