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Dynamically Resize an IFrame According to its contents
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:30 AM
problem with iframe is that you can't always predict the size of the content and eventually you'd end up with a scrollbar or even less convenient: a hidden part of the Iframe content this is a straight forward, easy way to make sure that the IFrame is properly resized according to the contents of the page loaded inside the Iframe. this will rely on the... Read More...
by amir.magdy | 1 comment(s)
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Windows Fake URL test [hosts file]
Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:33 AM
you can make your application respond with a different behavior based on requested URL, This can be as simple as showing a different logo or as sophisticated as filtering data by that requested domain this is not such a big implementation problem, but it seems hard to test that is if you don't know how to fake that URL request on your localhost well there's... Read More...
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Yield in c#
Monday, February 25, 2008 3:47 AM
i've been trying to explain the keyword yield to a friend of mine for more than an hour and he did not get it. but finally when i typed in this example he finally did 1: class enu :IEnumerable 2: { 3: public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() 4: { 5: yield return 1; 6: yield return 2; 7: yield return 3; 8: } 9: } it actually means that when you are enumerating this... Read More...
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DotnetKicks on CommunityServer.org [in 24 seconds]
Monday, December 31, 2007 1:10 AM
i didn't do this the right way i didn't go through documentation or consult with forums, i just wanted to do this the quick and easy way, what i do is i keep a sepparate theme for my blog sepparate from other bloggers so i can change whatever i like without hurting anyone's blogs so what i really did is i edited to theme pages to show the dotnetkicks... Read More...
by amir.magdy | 1 comment(s)
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Terminal server has exceeded maximum number of allowed connection [override maximum]
Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:55 AM
well there's an easy solution if need something urgently and u need to kick someone (close his session) mstsc -v:[UrServerNameOrIP] /console Read More...
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Enumerate App settings
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:21 AM
well sometimes you just need to enumerate all of the keys in your appsettings section in web.config this is how it's done 1: foreach ( string str in WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings.AllKeys) 2: { 3: Response.Write( string .Format( "Key : {0},Value {1}</br>" , 4: str, WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[str])); 5: } Read More...
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Enumerate Embedded Resources
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:11 AM
sometimes you just need to include an image or an XML file with your package but you don't want to allow users to access these files and modify them, all you have to do is to embed these files in your assembly if this assembly is a DLL or an EXE. just add the files to your project and from the file properties select the build action to be "Embed Resource"... Read More...
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SQL Profiler custom filter
Friday, November 23, 2007 8:13 AM
the tip is simple u need to make a filter that filters and shows only your DB transactions on a server. what u need to do is to change your web.config by adding a string that you can later filter on 1: < add key ="Main.ConnectionString" 2: value ="data source=Server;initial catalog=dbName; 3: User ID=sa;Password=userName;application name=thisIsTheFilter"... Read More...
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Override IIS Maximum upload size [max upload size in asp.net]
Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:56 AM
by default IIS enables you to upload 2 megabytes and i couldn't seem to figure out how to change that using Internet service manager snap in but i found this on msdn and it's working perfectly fine alll you have to do is add this node right under <system.web> section in web.config 1: < httpRuntime maxRequestLength ="size in KiloBytes"... Read More...
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A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client
Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:39 AM
by default asp.net checks for the scripts in requests so that if it finds a user that is posting javascript or HTML in a request body it will throw an exception "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client" but sometimes you need this like when you allow a user to send HTML formatted block like in an article or if you are... Read More...
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Are you sure [Prompt User Validation]
Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:26 AM
there's so many times when you need to ask a user "are you sure?" but you want it to be quick and painless you don't want to do one more server round trip just for that you can always use this the javascript prompt function so confirm() but how to integrate that into your asp.net code ok. 1: < asp:Button id ="btnDelete" runat ="server"... Read More...
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Ajax.net cancel a request
Monday, November 12, 2007 12:06 PM
well this is one of my old blog posts i'll be resposting them by time ammong new ones here we go this is very important if i have a request that i have issued using asp.net ajax client library this is how to cancel it 1: serviceHandler = new ServiceName().methodName(param1, param2, completeHendler ,errorHandler ); 2: // just keep the serviceHandler variable... Read More...
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