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Column to Column SQL copy

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Funny enough, I couldn’t find this snippet of sql code online. I needed to copy a column within the same table to another.

Get IP Address in C#

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:18:44 +0000

Here is a little snippet of code I use in ASP.NET to get a client’s IP Address, handy to have this info if you web application is designed for certain countries or regions.

Remote Desktop not allowed to use saved credentials

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:45:10 +0000

Remote Desktop not allowed to use saved credentials:

I was having this annoying error with remote desktop credentials not being saved at work. This little tutorial fixed the issue, worth a read if your having this problem.

SQL & Distinct Results

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:51:00 +0000

If you are working through a large list of potentially similar entries for maybe a cascading dropdown for manual location entry then you might find the DISTINCT sql command quite valuable.

This query returned 3800+ counties with tons of double entries:

Add in our special DISTINCT keyword and we get just 91 unique counties:

How to Increase Message Size Quota

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:28:19 +0000

Sometimes when dealing with web services that return large amounts of data you get the follow error message.

The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element.

This can be fixed by increasing the maxReceivedMessageSize, maxBufferSize, maxBufferPoolSize, maxArrayLength & maxStringContentLength variables in your web.config to their max size.

The follow code shows you what the web.config basicHttpBinding section variables should be set to:

Tumblr Custom Theme Recovery

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Tumblr Custom Theme Recovery:

For a second there I thought I had just undone all my custom theme work on my blog by previewing a theme that really did wipe out my html code. Thankfully Tumblr have a theme history set up. Use the link supplied and you can view the last 20 code changes you have made to your theme and revert back to the state of any of them. Phew!

Quoteme.ie Car Insurance Facebook App

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:21:04 +0000

This iFrame Facebook application takes all the questions needed to complete a car insurance quote on the website Quoteme.ie. When the user clicks on the Start A Quote Now button a window will pop up with the real quote system all pre filled in for the user.

View the application.

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:10:25 +0000

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5:

Great overview of the new bundling & minification options in ASP.NET 4.5

If you are ever trying to track down unsecure content on an...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:52:00 +0000

If you are ever trying to track down unsecure content on an https connection Google Chrome will identify any content being accessed on a non https protocol by inspecting the page and switching over to the console tab, handy.

The new quoteme.ie was carefully designed from adobe fireworks...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:28:00 +0000

Home page design.

Product page design.

Text page design

The new quoteme.ie was carefully designed from adobe fireworks to markup and then integrated into the Umbraco cms for data management.

View The Site.

ASP.NET Response.Redirect to new window

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:14:45 +0000

ASP.NET Response.Redirect to new window:

Bit a life saver, works great for iFrame apps on Facebook if you need the user to engage with a full screen web app outside of Facebook’s width limitations.

Local Machine DNS Control For Better Testing

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:12:49 +0000

When setting up a new website or web application it is advisable to make sure your new creation is working properly on the server it will live on remotely.

This is made easy by simply setting up your server but not creating the public DNS entry for the website and only setting the DNS settings up on your own PC so you can test away.

This is done by editing the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts). This file has no extension.

Simply open it up in a text editor and type in your to be DNS settings at the bottom of it.

123.456.21.978 mywebsite.com

123.456.21.978 www.mywebsite.com

All your browsers should access your website now on your server no issue both with and without www. Just make sure you 301 towards a non www or www site before you go live, that’s an seo duplicate content issue. ;)

Remove .aspx from Umbraco URLs

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:37:00 +0000

You probably noticed, as did I that when you enable clean urls in umbraco that you can still access your pages using the .aspx extension.

This is pretty bad for SEO as Google will see identical copies of each page, thus duplicate content as far as the bots will be concerned.

To solve this you can go into the UrlRewriting.config file in your umbraco installation and drop in the code below, make sure it is within the tag.

I found this code on http://snipt.org/tnolj/, thanks @danosphere =D

Change Umbraco from email for Contour

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:51:31 +0000

This one is well hidden within Umbraco for some reason and is not adjustable with Contour from what I can see.

If you want your emails to show as something other than your@email.here then you will need to go into config/umbracoSettings.config.

You should find this in that file around line 30.

your@email.here

Change it to online@yourwebsite.com or whatever you want/need it to be.

Content dependent markup in Umbraco using Razor

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:55:10 +0000

With Razor being so easy to use in Umbraco now, I thought I might try out a simple if statement to hide markup that wraps around non mandatory content.

Took a couple of attempts but it was fairly easy to do and works well.

@if (@Model.aboutMeImage.ToString() != string.Empty)

{

About Me

}

Fancybox & ASP.NET Web Forms

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:13:00 +0100

There was a nasty little problem I came across with Fancybox that really tested my patience before I noticed what the problem was.

If you pop open a modal window with a contact form in it, you will notice that your form won’t submit with ASP.NET web forms. No js errors, nothing at all. You press your button, the page won’t reload and your modal box stays open.

Fortunately I wasn’t the only one with this problem, thank god for stackoverflow.

So, in jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js (this was the version I was using) do a quick search for:

$(‘body’).append(

tmp = $(‘
’),

loading = $(‘
’),

overlay = $(‘
’),

wrap = $(‘
’)

);

And replace it with this:

$(‘form’).append(

tmp = $(‘
’),

loading = $(‘
’),

overlay = $(‘
’),

wrap = $(‘
’)

);

If it hasn’t dawned on you what the problem was then don’t change anything and have a look at the source when you have a modal window open, notice how the contents of the modal box get removed outside your ASP.NET form tag but remain as expected with in the body tag.

The code changes above ensure that the modal box markup remains within the form tags and thus ASP.NET can still process it’s web controls.

A brief inrto into how to consume 3rd party ASP.NET web...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:40:24 +0100

A brief inrto into how to consume 3rd party ASP.NET web services. We use the ecocoma google web services to build a key word rank checker app.

Links:

http://www.ecocoma.com/marketing_webservice.aspx

http://service.ecocoma.com/marketing/google.asmx

Send me a message if you want the source code. ;)

Using reCAPTCHA with ASP.NET

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:38:51 +0100

Using reCAPTCHA with ASP.NET:

Very simple bit of code to get running in the above link. The only thing about the dll Google supply is you must have MVC installed on your system, use the web platform installer if you haven’t got it. Also Google show the code in VB! Below is the reCAPTCHA control check code in CSharp for btnSubmit.

protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

if (RecaptchaControl1.IsValid)

{

Label1.Text = “You entered the correct captcha.”;

}

else

{

Label1.Text = “The captcha you entered is invalid.”;

}

}

Umbraco Contour & Razor Bug

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:22:00 +0100

A quick note for something that has cost me considerable time working out. If you are using Umbraco’s contact form package Contour and you insert a contact form into your page via a richtext box editor.

Make sure in your template you are not using a Razor macro to insert the content of your richtext box, use the normal XSLT method. Your form won’t show otherwise.

So don’t do this to include your richtextbox:

@Model.myRichTextBox

Do this:

UPDATE (12/10/2011)

It has come to my attention that this is not a problem with Contour, it is to do with the rich text editor having issues with macros when you embed the rich text editor into your templates using Razor.

As you can tell from Niels Hartvig’s tweet, this will be resolved down the line.

Razor DynamicNode Cheat Sheet

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:41:18 +0100

Razor DynamicNode Cheat Sheet:

A great cheat sheet for using Razor in Umbraco 4.7.1