Browser CSS Differences (IE6 IE7 Firefox)
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/01/browser-css-differences-ie6-ie7-firefox.html'; Typically the 3 major browsers used are Firefox, IE6 and IE7. Perhaps you thought they would behave...
View ArticleASP.Net AJAX Not Working (Full page postback)
The conversion process from VS 2003 to VS 2005 for web projects may result in strange behaviour when adding new client-side JavaScript to the project. For me this was evident when using ASP.Net AJAX...
View ArticleUser is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection
Login failed for user 'username'. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. This error had me scratching my head today for around 30 mins (mainly because I rarely setup SQL...
View ArticleWhere are my IIS Logs?
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-are-my-iis-logs.html'; Although you may have bucket loads of logging taking place in your web applications/sites, you may still feel the need...
View ArticleCould not load file or assembly App_Web_XXX
Came across a completely random exception today on a new web server: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'App_Web_XXX, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,...
View ArticleFinding a User Mac Address (Javascript)
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/02/finding-user-mac-address-javascript.html'; Unless a user is on an internal network, there is no way server-side (I know of) to retrieve the mac...
View ArticleHTML Email Newsletter Top Tips
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/02/html-email-newsletter-top-tips.html'; Email newsletters are common place for advertising products, services and events. Considering it's uses, it is...
View ArticleSplit a text file with VBScript
I had to split some text reports (csv format) that are read by colleagues in Excel just the other day. Excel can only read ~65k lines on one sheet, but the reports were ~100k lines - so I had to split...
View ArticleControl name changes due to xhtmlConformance
Another strange and unwanted ASP.Net problem cropped up today when we least needed it to. We had some code problems occurring on some servers, but the exact same code worked fine on other servers. The...
View ArticleASP.Net Production Web Server Top Tip
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/02/aspnet-production-web-server-top-tip.html'; There are a number of things we want to ensure on our production servers: The debug attribute in the...
View ArticleWindows 2003 IIS returns 404 for ASP.Net pages
Had an issue on one of our externally managed servers which wouldn't process any ASP.Net documents (aspx, asmx etc), but would just return a 404. However, it would happily return other files such as...
View ArticleClear Concise HTTP Status Codes List
I've recently been looking into ReST services, and needless to say you need to know your HTTP status codes. These are a set of standardised response codes given by web site servers on the Internet....
View ArticleUpdate your Blog by SMS wherever you are
digg_url ='http://neilkilbride.blogspot.com/2008/03/update-your-blog-by-sms-wherever-you.html'; BlogIt is a new, free service mobile blogging service available to all new and existing Esendex users....
View ArticleSQL - Replace line breaks and other characters
I'm not quite as proficient with SQL as I'd like, so when I stumble across little SQL gems I know I'll use again I like to note them down; what better a place to do that than my blog to share with the...
View ArticleLog4net - problems logging from a web app
There have been a couple of occasions when logging just won't work for me in a web application. This typically means that log4net is getting permission issues. The web application runs as a special...
View ArticleDateTime format & globalization problems in ASP.Net
Some problems cropped up recently on a project relating to datetime formats and globalisation. At first glance it seemed that it was related to en-US and en-GB datetime format conflicts. However, it...
View ArticleI need some ReST
Despite working hard on two newly released services (BlogIt and Voice SMS) for Esendex there is no time to stop and catch my breath; I've begun working on a completely new ReST API. With ReST...
View ArticleXSLT Transform in C# (a piece of cake)
Whilst there are times when I'd rather be rubbing Dorset Naga chillies in my eyes, most days I'm glad I develop in C# on the .Net framework. Take today for example. I needed to look into manipulating...
View ArticleHttpHandler for all requests in ASP.Net on IIS
Setting up a HttpHandler for handling ALL incoming requests is straight forward with .Net and IIS. Provided you've created your .Net HttpHandler project to sucessfully handle the requests, you need to...
View ArticleRemoving XmlDocument white space c#
I've recently been working on matching certain API calls with XML data pulled from an XML file for testing purposes. I noticed there was a large amount of white space left in the XML when pulled from...
View ArticleConfigure log4net only once
log4net is a great logging framework with powerful levels of flexibility. This flexibility can result in complexity when used in larger systems. One key point when using log4net in complex systems is...
View ArticleHow to access the Call Stack C#
As methods are called, information about them are placed on the call stack. The call stack is invaluable in development work for debugging problems, but it can also be useful in other situations (e.g....
View ArticleUse CSS not JavaScript for rollovers!
Why use Javascript for your rollovers when simple CSS will do? I prefer CSS over Javascript because it degrades better in non-compatible browsers in comparison to JavaScript and it's so straight...
View ArticleCannot resolve the collation conflict T-SQL
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between XXX and YYY in the equal to operation I recently got this whilst doing some SQL queries that involved joins between two fields with different (albeit very...
View ArticleOut with the Old...
If anyone stumbles across this old thing, my shiny new blog can be found at http://www.dottodotnet.com
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