I came across this issue on a fairly complex page - user controls added dynamically, UpdatePanels, plenty of AJAX... etc.

It was one of the suggestions from StackOverflow that helped me solve this problem. In my case additional Page events where firing twice was due to black value for the "src" property of one of the "img" elements in resulting HTML mark-up.

When you try to use RDP and get an error saying that "Network Authentication Level  is not supported by your computer", enable CredSSP by following this KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608/

Thanks go to SoonerAl and his post on dslreports site that I hit when searching for a solution.

This is a "must-read" article that helped me understand how to set directory permissions when using new "pass-through authentication" Application Pool Identities.

The most important part from my point of view was finding the name of the account used by an App Pool
which is  - "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool".

You will need to change "DefaultAppPool" to the name of the appropriate application pool.

Not in any specific order here's a collection of web resources that I found useful when working on client side of Asp.Net applications

The format for JavaScript doc comments

JScript IntelliSense: A Reference for the “Reference” Tag

JSON Plugin for jQuery

Escaping the JavaScript call stack with setTimeout

Validate Asp.Net Page from JavaScript
Call Page_ClientValidate(), it returns TRUE if validators are happy, false if not. Use it on client side to prevent javascript code from executing if ASP.Net validators ring alarm bells.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/JavascriptValidation.aspx

Firefox and onChange event
First of all it is fired before keyUp or keyDown
Secondly it's fired again when cursor leaves text area

Firefox and Attributes.Add() Method
In IE to retrieve a custom attribute added in Asp.Net using Control.Attributes.Add() method, you call element.AttributeName or element['AttributeName'].
In Fire Fox we have to use
element.attributes['attributeName'].value or
element.attributes.attributeName.value

Firefox Css Class Name for Disabled Elements
You can use this class in your css file to alter the disabled elements appearance
input[disabled], textarea[disabled], option[disabled], optgroup[disabled], select[disabled]
{
  -moz-user-focus:ignore;
  -moz-user-input:disabled;
  background-color:threedface;
  color:graytext;
  cursor:inherit;
}

"This page displays secure and unsecure  content ..." Warning in IE over SSL
This can happen if, as in my case, there are relative paths to resources in client script and your site is configured to use SSL. To solve this problem either use absolute path starting with "https://" or move the paths to css. Neither FF no Safari care about it.

Cell Border Does Not Show When Cell Is Empty - IE Bug Fix
Apply the following style to the table
style="empty-cells:show; border-collapse:collapse;"

How to get Text Value from Microsoft AutoCompleteExtender
1. In the web method use the following method to create strings that will be returned in the array
AjaxControlToolkit.AutoCompleteExtender.CreateAutoCompleteItem(textToShow, valueForTheText );
2. In the AutoCompleteExtender assign event handler
OnClientItemSelected="EventHadlerClientSideMethodName"
3. In the event handler use the following method signature
EventHadlerClientSideMethodName(source, eventArgs)
4. Get text and value
eventArgs._text
eventArgs._value

IE8 will throw an error "Unterminated string constant" 
windows.setTimeOut method in IE8 will throw an error "Unterminated string constant" if newLine 
carrigeReturn is present. Hence we explicitly replace them with terminating \n\r 
IE7, FF and Opera are all fine

Example - cleaning currentTaskText
var re = /\n/g;
currentTaskText = currentTaskText.replace(re, '\\n');
re = /\r/g;
currentTaskText = currentTaskText.replace(re, '\\r');

jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008
1. Download the latest "jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc.js"
2. Place it in a folder in your project. It does not matter if the project type is "Web Site" or "Web Application"
3. Open your javascript file, the one where you want jQuery intellisense enabled, in VS2008
4. Drag "jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc.js" file and drop it in VS Editor Window. This will add a line of code similar to this one
/// <reference path="../jQuery/js/jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc.js" />

IMPORTANT
The reference must be the very first line in the file. I had a comment before it and the intellisense did not work and this kept me busy for a while, googling etc, with no results, until I just thought about it.

Just found this great post about referencing other files in javascript files in VS2008
JScript IntelliSense: A Reference for the “Reference” Tag
It covers all possibilities of referencing.  

Storing JSON Object in an Elemet's Attribute
Writing JSON object to a newly-created attribute at the time the attribute is created will not work.
So this code is not going to write JSON object correctly, instead it will write a string '[Object]'
var myJsonObj = GetMyJsonObject();
$('#' + elemetId).attr('jsonObject', myJsonObj);
Here's how you should do it
1. Create an attribute and explicitly declares its initial value as an object
$('#' + elemetId).attr('jsonObject', new Object);

2. Get JSON object you want to store and write it to the newly created attribute
var myJsonObj = GetMyJsonObject();
$('#' + elemetId).attr('jsonObject', myJsonObj);

Detecting Browsers Using CSS Style Sheet
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=386094
<style type="text/css">
    head+/**/body{background:#ccffcc;}/*min-height browser but not IE7*/
    /* mac hide \*/
    * html body{background:#ccffff;}/* IE<7 */
    /* End hide */
    *+html body{background:#ffffcc;}/* IE>6 */
    </style>

also
<!--[if IE 6]>
Do IE stuff
<![endif]-->

plus
<!-- for IE7 only -->
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/xtras/ie7only.css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->
<!-- for IE6 only -->
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/xtras/ie6only.css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->
<!-- for 5 & 5.5 -->
<!--[if lt IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/xtras/old.css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

to hide code
<!-- for everybody else except IE 5, 5.5 and 6 -->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/xtras/new.css" media="screen" />
<!--<![endif]-->

Load JavaScripts Dynamically Using jQuery.getScript()

          function
          button_click
          ()
{
          // Check if method is defined
          if
          (
          typeof DynFunction ==="undefined")
{// Load script file where the method is definedvar req =LoadMyScript('proj_scripts/dyn-loaded.js');//
Check if loadedif(req.status ===200)
{// Call function from the loaded fileDynFunction();}}}functionLoadMyScript(scriptName)
{// Load synchronously to ensure that the file is fully
loaded// before being used $.ajaxSetup({ async:false});var req = $.getScript(scriptName);//
Revert back to async loading $.ajaxSetup({ async:true});alert('status:
'+ req.status +'\n\rstatusText:
'+ req.statusText);return req;}

 

Reference jQuery in Master Page

          <%--Referencing javascript in a master
page maintaining intllisence--%><%--Notice '~' sign
in the script reference--%><%if(false)
{ %><script src="~/jQuery/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><%}
%><script src=<%=ResolveUrl("~/jQuery/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js")
%> type="text/javascript"></script><%--End--%>

Scott Guthrie put together a very extensive list of Asp.Net resources:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx

A step by step to how to move membership tables from MS SQL express Edition to your database that you are used on your web site. The second part we will go in details to configure our asp.net web site
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/dsdaf/104012006083052am/1.aspx

Access Database Provider
http://blog.krisvandermast.com/UsingAccessInsteadOfSQLServerForYourASPNETApplicationServices.aspx

A list of short videos on various aspects of dev work and technologies

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb629407.aspx

How to install link

Thanks to Windows Coding

Today I've been working on implementing "drag-and-drop" functionality between two ListView controls. There is a good sample on Microsoft Help and Support web site "The ListView control does not support drag-and-drop functionality for items at run time" that I used as a starting point.

I have a basic model working just fine except for one thing. When ListViewItems are to be moved (rather than copied), they should be removed from the "source" ListView, however, the DragDrop event handler of the "destination"  ListViewControl does not contain any reference to the "source".

Tomorrow, I shall try to find a good solution for this problem.

It's all done now and in production ;) When my current contract ends I will have more time to describe the solution.

This is just a quick note to let you know that Linux version of VMware 6.0 will not give you a warning message when you set a size of memory for a virtual machine higher than what your host has installed.

So, when you start that virtual machine

• your host Linux OS will get hung
• your vm will show "Unable to load profile ..." error (assuming it runs Windows OS)
• and you probably will have to "cold-boot" your box

What led me to this outrageous experiment was the fact that Gnome Monitor was not showing reduction in RAM when I was running a virtual machine. Initially I thought that VMware was not using the host's RAM at all creating a large page file instead. So, I bumped up the vm RAM beyond the physical RAM on host and it soon showed up.

Thanks for reading.

I came across this problem when working with OLEDB provider in Visual Studio 2005. I use 64-bit OS which was the reason for the error.

Here's the error screen shot

To resolve this issue, in project properties change "Platform Target" to "x86"