For Loop with Negative Step | Quickie

Cannot believe that I’m writing some helpful examples using VB.Net, but that is the language that we’re using at work, so have to adapt now. Next find how to make a loop with a negative step (decreasing step):

Imports System

Public Class MainClass
 Shared Sub Main()
 For intCount As Integer = 10 To 1 Step -1
 'Add the item to the list
 System.Console.WriteLine(intCount)
 Next
 End Sub
End Class

Solution | Unable to write output file ‘…pdb’; unspecified error

During this weekend, I started having a problem when building a solution in Visual Studio. It would load the following error:

Unable to write to output file Solution_Name.pdb

This Visual Studio solution has 8 projects, and a lot of files and folders. I tried several solutions that I found on the net, which worked for others, but none worked for my case including:

• Delete the .pdb file from the solution – Didn’t Work
• Delete the Debug folder – Still Didn’t work
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ASP.Net | Read Values from Javascript

Today I started checking out some videos about Windows CardSpace and ASP.Net for logging in and I saw how he used javascript to get client side input and use it in ASP.Net in the C# code.

First you need to create a HiddenField on your webForm and name it TokenField (any name would actually do)

<asp:HiddenField ID=”TokenField” runat=”server” />

To set the Hidden Field value in JavaScript use the following code: Continue reading »

CMS | Sitefinity Not Working on Windows 7 64-Bit

To solve this problem, you need to access IIS 7 Manager and make sure that the:

• Application Pool is switched from Default to Classic
• Logon User in Classic Application Pool is LocalSystem
• Enable for 32-bit applications Continue reading »

Visual Studio | No source code available for the current location

Whilst trying to debug a Stored Procedure, the following error prompted:

There is no source code available for the current location

First you have to make sure that the current user is part of the ‘sysadmin’ Server role (click here for how to).

• Next go to Visual Studio Continue reading »

Websites June Refresh :]

Just updated my websites to be all showing the same theme.. to start the month of June in style Previously they only had the logo but now made some touch ups and really hope you like them.

With these designs i’m trying to make an identity for my sites… following more or less the same design principles. For now they only have one page so there’s not much to see… but they are still much better than before

You can access my websites using the below links..

• www.deep.com.mt
• www.ciappara.com
• www.homes.com.mt

Deep Design is my main brand and is the one I use when developing websites for clients.

Ciappara.com is the new place that this blog will be moving to. It’s still being developed and will let you know when it’s ready.

Homes.com.mt is a new project that will be launching.. but i’ll have more details on this later

When I have more updates, I’ll let you know… btw hope you like the design

If you have any comments or suggestions (which I too have many :]) please let me know.

Regards,

Clive Ciappara

Google Event Tracking Failing

We’ve been using Google Analytics events tracking starting from this year and they are very useful. This week we noticed that website events weren’t being tracked, and haven’t been from the beginning of May.

After checking, everytime we tried to call the pageTracker._trackEvent method, it always returned fail. After searching and testing a bit, we noticed that apparently google made some changes to the trackEvent method.

Where before they allowed the optional_value (the last parameter if the method) to be a string or a number, now it is allowed to be a number only… thus the correct params would be:

pageTracker._trackEvent(‘my_category’, ‘my_action’, ‘my_optional_label’, 14);

Hope this helped some people It helped me

Reference: click here

Response.End()

Response End

This is added after the text needed in the response stream is written using the Response.Write() so no other html or garbage is written in the response stream.

Without response.end() javascript will have the text and the remaining garbage.

[ex. 1] without response.end()

Response.Write(“err”);
…..
result =”err

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” ><head><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/Content.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/Default.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/EmailSender.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/Header.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/Header2.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><link href=”../App_Themes/Default/Sidebar.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” /><title> </title></head><body>    <form name=”form1″ method=”post” action=”WebService.aspx” id=”form1″><div><input type=”hidden” name=”__VIEWSTATE” id=”__VIEWSTATE” value=”/wEPZwUPOGNjY2JiNjJiNWQ5MDI41In2qlnOWzD0wbpAPF80y1dPYTA=” /></div>
</form></body></html>” Continue reading »

Reference Controls from MasterPage

To reference controls from a master page in a normal page use the following syntax:

Ex. Reference the Head Html tag of the Master Page from a normal page to add scripts in the head. Set the Head as runat=”server” and give id=”Head”, then enter the following syntax:

HtmlHead headTag = ((HtmlHead)((MasterPageName)this.Master).FindControl(“Head”));

Hope this helps. Btw this will mostly be used in Visual Studio 2005 since in the new versions, you can add an ContentPlaceHolder in the Head tag of the Master page and insert any scripts in the PlaceHolder on the page

ASP.Net Menu Control Problem with IE8

When loading a website that utilises the asp:menu control, in the development machine it works fine but on the server (in our case Windows Server 2003 R2) the menu isn’t shown correctly. Instead a blank panel would be viewed. As a temporary solution, the IE8 compatibility button can be clicked, but some styles might not work well with IE7 compatibility. So below please find the patch for asp:menu which can be applied to Windows or Windows Server, to build IE8-compatible ASP.NET WebForms sites…

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