1. Create a subfolder of App_Code folder named VBCode, and another subfolder named CSCode. 2. Change web.config file as follows: <compilation debug=”false”> <codeSubDirectories> <add directoryName=”VBCode” /> <add directoryName=”CSCode” /> </codeSubDirectories> </compilation> Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t990ks23(vs.80).aspx
Monthly Archives: May 2008
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I came across a question asking how to change browser’s window status information when user moves the mouse over a button on an ASP.NET web page. The solution is to use JavaScript.In the Page_Load event handler, add the following two lines of code: Button1.Attributes.Add(“OnMouseMove”, “javascript:window.status=’Message’;”) Button1.Attributes.Add(“OnMouseOut”, “javascript:window.status=’Done’;) Note, the solution only works in Internet Explorer. FireFox by default disables the ability to change the status bar, because the status bar has been abused by spammers.
I came across to a post by Anil John talking about how to enforce password complexity by using regular expresion. Here is the regular expression he wrote: ^.*(?=.{10,})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[@#$%^&+=]).*$ What it enforces is: Must be at least 10 characters Must contain at least one one lower case letter, one upper case letter, one digit and one special character Valid special characters are – @#$%^&+= This regular expression can be easily used for the RegularExpressValidator control in ASP.NET, and […]
If you are a Windows Server Administrator and notice an ASP.NET web application is malfunctioning, then how will you stop this application? Answer: Just delete the application from the server. Just kidding. 🙂 Real answer: Open up the web.config file of the web application, then change httpRuntime to false. Like this: <system.web> <httpRuntime enabled=”false” /> </system.web> Don’t forget to save the change. The modification of web.config will cause the application to restart, but because httpRuntime […]
For Windows applications, it might be a good idea to use the EventLog to log application errors because the EventLog is very powerful yet very simple to use. However, it might not be a good idea to use it to log ASP.NET web application errors. Why? There are several reasons: It’s all about security. In the malicious cyber world, the security of the web application is a very big concern of any company, if not […]
If you are still having trouble installing VMWare Server 2.0 on your Ubuntu box after following my instructions, then I suggest you to give up VMWare Server and switch to a very nice Open Source software called VirtualBox. Here is the description of VirtualBox from its web site: VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product […]