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Safari Bookshelf

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:37:00 GMT

Safari Bookshelf

Subscription on-line bookshelf. Lots of IT related text books that you can search or just read through.

UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:13:00 GMT

UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite
UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite is an Open Source Component which allows you to rewrite URLs with ASP.NET 2.0.

Credit Card Payment Process with ASP.NET

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:54:00 GMT

Credit Card Payment Processing with ASP.NET
Rick Strahl has published a excellent (and very comprehensive) new article on techniques to perform credit-card payment processing with ASP.NET. He also includes full source code examples (for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0).

Standards

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:52:00 GMT

SSW Rules to Better ...
SSW is an Australian software house that has an huge amount of standards that they have made public. These cover every conceivable choice that someone working there, and, by extension, any other software house, can make. An excelent resource.

Starting Javascript with ASP.NET

Stuart Radcliffe — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:24:00 GMT

I have tended to stay away from Javascript except for the most trivial of situations or easy modifications of other's code but it is becoming increasingly obvious that I can't really develop too far in web development without some ability at it. So I'm going to make an effort to increase my use.

One of the areas that I have trouble getting right and need to work on is manipulating DOM elements. As a first start to this I am going to remember a piece of code that changes the value of a Select when the value in another select is changed. Trivial, but, one step at a time.

            Dim ScriptOnChange As String = "window.document.getElementById('KiltLengthDDL').selectedIndex=0;"
            ScriptOnChange &= "window.document.getElementById('WaistDDL').selectedIndex=0;"
            Me.TartanDDL.Attributes.Add("onChange", ScriptOnChange)

Online Backup May Be Ready for the Consumer

Stuart Radcliffe — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:59:00 GMT

Fred Wilson has an interesting article on his feeling that the time has come for on-line backup solutions for the consumer. He is unusual in having used one of these for ten years but admits that this is too expensive at $20 per month. There are a few other competitors in the market now at lower price points. A business worth considering I think.

My verdict on Alex McLeish

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:12:00 GMT

Find it here: David Murray's Loyalty Overdose

My delicious link roll

Stuart Radcliffe — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:13:00 GMT

I have added this to the sidebar.

Thanks to A VC

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Stuart Radcliffe — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:04:00 GMT

I'll see if I can come up with a solution.

Problems with ActiveX Controls in Microsoft Access

Stuart Radcliffe — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:58:00 GMT

Microsoft has recently been on a security kick. This has become the number one priority. Sometimes the decisions that are made in implementing security fixes are just not thought through and result in the breaking of existing solutions. I came across one such instance today.

Stephen and some of my other colleagues were doing a server install at one of our clients. This involved the introduction of a new server running Windows 2000 SP4 Terminal Services. The server is used to run the front end of the main database application for the client. The front end runs on Access 2003 and is accessed through Terminal Services.

One of the features of this application is an image displaying form that uses the Kodak (formerly Wang) Image Edit Control to display the images. When trying to use the application this form was giving an error and when I tried to re-insert the control I got a message saying that the control was not compatible with Access. I knew this to be untrue as I can happily open up the form and use the control using the computer I am typing this on.

So, after some Googling, I came across a couple of references to the problem. This one implied a possible solution. The related Microsoft article was next to useless but the page that I found it from offered a solution (actually for the Rich Text ActiveX control but it worked none the less).

The problem appears to be that Microsoft have introduced a new security feature aimed at stopping certain ActiveX controls from running in Internet Explorer. This is in the form of some registry entries that define the compatibility of these controls. The Kodak Imaging controls are marked as not compatible and indeed there shouldn't really be any need to use them in Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, for some reason, Microsoft Access looks at the same registry entries and determines that the controls should not be compatible in Access either. This just doesn't make any sense. There can be many occasions when what is a security risk when viewing web pages in a browser simply is not any kind of a risk when used in a controlled application in an Access database. Stupid decision.

Anyway, the appropriate registry keys are as follows:

Kodak Image Admin Control - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{009541A0-3B81-101C-92F3-040224009C02}
Kodak Image Edit Control - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{6D940280-9F11-11CE-83FD-02608C3EC08A}
Kodak Image Scan Control - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{84926CA0-2941-101C-816F-0E6013114B7F}
Rich Text Control - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{3B7C8860-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}

Within the registry key for the appropriate control there will be an entry for Compatibility Flags that will be set to 0x400 (hexadecimal 400, decimal 1024) if the control is disabled. To enable it, change this value to 0.