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Scott On Writing | 09 Mar 2010 14:14

Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)

Scott Mitchell writes "....About once every couple of months I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case. For whatever reason, I never seem to..."
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Scott On Writing | 17 Feb 2010 13:39

FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS

Scott Mitchell writes "....I teach two six week courses on ASP.NET at the University of California - San Diego Extension. The first class serves as an introduction to ASP.NET and as such many of the students create their first ASP.NET websites in class. During the first..."
Read more »  FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS

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Scott On Writing | 08 Jan 2010 09:57

January's Toolbox Column Now Online

Scott Mitchell writes "....My (final) Toolbox column in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews: Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop - Balsamiq Mockups is a lightweight, easy-to-use UI mockup tool that combines the speed,..."
Read more »  January's Toolbox Column Now Online

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Scott On Writing | 08 Dec 2009 11:36

SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application!

Scott Mitchell writes "....Today I was working on an ASP.NET application that sends out plain-text emails to site administrators when certain conditions unfold. One problem I unearthed today is that when viewing these emails in Microsoft Outlook many of the carriage returns..."
Read more »  SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application!

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Scott On Writing | 01 Dec 2009 12:52

December's Toolbox Column Now Online

Scott Mitchell writes "....My Toolbox column in the December 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews: Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools - a Visual Studio Add In that improves the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework Designers, allowing you to..."
Read more »  December's Toolbox Column Now Online

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Scott On Writing | 10 Nov 2009 12:54

Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client

Scott Mitchell writes "....ASP.NET's PasswordRecovery provides a mechanism for users to recover their forgotten passwords. Depending on how user passwords are saved, the PasswordRecovery control will either email a user their password or it will reset the user's password to a..."
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Scott On Writing | 05 Nov 2009 12:18

November's Toolbox Column Now Online

Scott Mitchell writes "....My Toolbox column in the November 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews: BI Documenter - point BI Documenter to the schema of your database and select which database objects to include. Then, with the..."
Read more »  November's Toolbox Column Now Online

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Scott On Writing | 26 Oct 2009 15:59

TIP: How To Generate a Fully Qualified URL in ASP.NET (E.g., http://www.yourserver.com/folder/file.aspx)

Scott Mitchell writes "....Imagine that you've got an ASP.NET page that is generating an email message that needs to include links back to the website. Perhaps you're writing the next greatest online message board application and when someone replies to a thread you want to..."
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Scott On Writing | 23 Oct 2009 15:17

Rich Tooltips With jQuery

Scott Mitchell writes "....I was recently working on an application and needed the ability to present the user with a list of links when they hovered over a particular line of text. HTML elements include a title attribute that, when set, displays the attribute's value in a..."
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Scott On Writing | 15 Oct 2009 15:49

SOLUTION: JSLint.VS Add-In Always Reports "No Errors" Even For Invalid JavaScript Files

Scott Mitchell writes "....JSLint is a free JavaScript code quality tool created by Douglas Crockford. At the JSLint.com website you can paste in a block of JavaScript code and JSLint will examine the code and warn you when it encounters any script that violates its list of..."
Read more »  SOLUTION: JSLint.VS Add-In Always Reports "No Errors" Even For Invalid JavaScript Files

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