Firefox 3 - Here comes the reason number #11

by rahul 6/30/2008 8:56:54 AM
Well here are the top 10 reasons, and today for the first time, I noticed that in Firefox 3 they have made the location bar even more robust. A little bit of story before I show the screen-shot… my 2 year old really likes some web pages, specially this one… Abracadabra. Today, she asked me to pla... [More]


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Shooting yourself in the foot - IIS 6.0 OWA HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request (Header Field Too Long)

by Vignesh 6/25/2008 10:21:13 AM
If you are a IIS web server administrator who is responsible for fine tuning the performance of the web server, the chances of you having to make registry changes or Metabase changes are very high. Most of these changes are usually recommendations by msdn or knowledge base articles at http://support... [More]


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Firefox 3 - Top 10 reasons that makes me a Firefox fan

by Rahul 6/24/2008 10:19:59 PM
There are no surprises (for me, at least!) that Firefox has been downloaded more than 14 million times in just 7 days!!! I am a die-hard fan of Firefox since quite a few years, and I have experienced it getting better and better over the last few years. Today, in this post, I will share some of th... [More]


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The Finally Block problem...

by praveen 6/21/2008 1:44:02 AM
One of the things I am really annoyed about is the finally block of the famous trio.... try/catch/finally. Before I get into details, let me explain that I really like the finally block. It has a nice sound to it and of course it does a damn good job, it acts as a placeholder where we can clean up r... [More]


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4 ways to send a PDF file to the IE Client in ASP.NET 2.0

by Rahul 6/18/2008 9:32:58 PM
In this scrap, I am sharing a project using which you can send PDF files to the IE Client in four different ways. Create a new C# Website. While creating the following pages ensure that you DON'T have "Place code in Separate file" checkbox as checked. You need to create 4 pages called &q... [More]


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C# Example for a File In Use

by praveen 6/13/2008 9:20:16 AM
Recently I was working on some code where it was required to open a file, write something to it and close it. I ran into a small problem while considering the code. Since this was a Doc file the problem was that how do I check if the file was already open or not?  If the file is already open fo... [More]


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Play with Colors - Part 2 - Check the font on a specific background using .NET reflection

by Rahul 6/12/2008 3:12:25 PM
I have already shown how to use .NET reflection to get the information about all the colors in .NET. Let's say you want to check out how a specific colored font would appear on any background, you may like to check this sample. Use the code which follows to get an output like the one below. ... [More]


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System.Web.HttpException: The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80072746.

by Vignesh 6/12/2008 11:21:00 AM
The client had developed an AJAX based ASP.NET 2.0 web application which had been deployed to multiple IIS 6.0 servers. On only one particular server they noticed that the application does not perform as expected. It works for a few hours and then starts to fail with the following error logged in ... [More]


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Why do I like overflow:scroll so much?

by Rahul 6/10/2008 1:46:39 AM
There are times when you want to incorporate a picture, a large piece of code in a limited web space... ex. a blog post which has a lot of <DIV> tags. Now, to crop or resize the picture may not be the option always. I still see a lot posts where the images are either cropped or line breaks are... [More]


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Play with Colors - Part 1 - See all the colors using .NET reflection

by Rahul 6/10/2008 12:40:00 AM
When you work on designing a website, you may find it difficult to remember all the color names and visualize them. At least, I am personally not very good with color selection and find it really hard to recall the color names. So, in this scrap we will check out how to use .NET reflection to print ... [More]


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