You may not give much thought to your laptop battery, until it fails. Did you know Windows 7 now has a built in tool to give your battery a checkup? This utility will give you information such as charge capacity (compare to its original state) and what programs are using your computer’s resources. Here are…
There is an issue with the current versions of Chrome and Safari browsers that can cause the ASP.NET menu control to not render properly. If you are interested in understanding the how and why behind this, there is a great forum post here that describes the issue in more detail. If you are like me…
The ASP.NET Membership provider by default, will use a SQL Express database. But if you want to use a database on an external SQL Database, you must prepare it. This method uses Visual Studio 2008 (.NET 3.5) but will also work with ASP.NET 2.0. It assumes you have already created a database(empty) and user name. 1)Go…
I came across this nice clear example on how to use the Modal Popup from the Ajax Control toolkit. This particular example uses the control to display a detail record from a datagrid. A pretty useful example with good explanation of what is going on. Check it out here.
MikesDotNetting recently did a great article on SQL Injection. He gave a great explanation of the problem with examples and how to prevent injection attacks. If you are writing code that executes SQL based on user input (text boxes, etc) you REALLY need to take a look at his article. You can check it out…
If you are using the ASP.NET GridView control in any of your web apps, you are likely frustrated by its display options. Khaled wrote a great article on how to modify the appearance of the GridView using CSS. It is a very simple process of adding a few tags to the gridview and defining your…
Over at Website Magazine I just read a great short article about using image ALT text to positively influence your keyword ranking. Basically the article is saying that we should be sure to include your page’s relative keywords in any Image ALT text. Also keep in mind that Image ALT text’s primary purpose is to…
If you have used Paypal with a simple website, you may be familiar with Paypal’s button creator. It allows you to create HTML buttons that you can embed on your pages. However this does not work so well with ASP.NET due to the multiple FORM elements. I have found other examples of how to create…
Run disk cleanup on your pc to clean up unneeded files and free up space on your hard drive. This process may run for several minutes to an hour depending on how long its been since last run and how many files are built up. Press the ‘Windows’ Key and ‘E’ to bring up the…
Many more households are using high speed internet connections and sharing that connection. One of the ways of easily sharing that connection is with a wireless router. By setting up a wireless network, other PC’s in your house are able to share the internet connection as well as files and printers. Unfortunately, most consumer wireless…