akjoshi's Blog

Disabling LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton completely

2009-10-03T09:32:56Z

I was just going through one of my previous project and saw some code to disable the LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton; after going through it I remembered the issues we had faced with different browsers trying to disable these controls(with proper functionality, styling etc.). Hope posting these functions will help someone. /// <summary> /// Disables the link button. /// </summary> /// <param name="linkButton">The LinkButton to be disabled.</param> public...(read more)

Doloto – A new AJAX application optimization tool from MS

2009-09-09T09:09:00Z

Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications. Read more details about this tool in this blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/09/04/doloto-on-devlabs.aspx Also check other cool projects at MSDN Dev Labs - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...(read more)

Auto formatting the XAML

2009-02-19T11:00:20Z

Formatting XAML manually is very painful work and if you are used to read neatly formatted markup/code then it becomes impossible to go through other developers code. To solve this problem we thought to use Dimebrain Markup Tamer to auto format code and maintain consistency/readability; but we were not satisfied with this. Recently I found that VS itself provides very good support for formatting(auto) XAML. You just need to set few settings and that's it, you can easily format your XAML by using...(read more)

Tech cheat sheets

2009-02-03T06:34:00Z

Just wanted to move these links from my bookmarks Agile Agile Work Resources .Net .NET Cheat Sheet The skinny on 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. C# and VB.NET Comparison Cheat Sheet Microsoft® Visual C#® Default Keybindings ASP.Net Microsoft AJAX Library Cheat Sheets Adjusted for RTM, DomEvent and DomElement .NET Cheat Sheet ASP.NET 2.0 Page Life Cycle & Common Events ASP.NET 2.0 page life cycle WPF XAML Cheat Sheet - The most common and useful XAML snippets you'll need when doing WPF or Silverlight....(read more)

Using RS Scripter to create deployment script for reporting services

2009-01-29T08:01:00Z

If you are using SSRS then chances are high to come across a scenario where you want to deploy reports developed on development machine to the production server, there are various ways to do this and one of them is to use RS Scripter tool. Here are the steps to do this - 1. Creating Report Deployment Script Download the Reporting Services Scripter - http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=62 Update the servers.xml; change the reportservice value if your ReportServer name is different. <server...(read more)

Lets travel back to 2001 with Google

2008-10-02T07:04:50Z

Google always comes up with something out of the box which makes you say wow , this time they have given whole world a chance to go back into the past and see how the world of web looked like in year 2001, interesting isn't it. Wouldn't you like to see how your company website looked like back then, what forums/site your boss used back then, what was making news then or what was your identity back then blah blah blah, there can be numerous reasons for you to have a look at - http://www.google.com...(read more)

Microsoft ICE - Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research

2008-09-24T12:29:54Z

Here comes another cool tool from Microsoft research, Image Composite Editor - Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight...(read more)

Failed to access IIS metabase error after installing reporting services

2008-09-23T08:15:00Z

"Failed to access IIS metabase error" after installing reporting services...(read more)

Google Chrome: Will It be a Killer

2008-09-04T07:31:00Z

So Google jumped into one more field( web browsing) to take on Microsoft, cool; But will it be able to become the next killer browser, provided MS is putting a great efforts to improve IE(with IE 8 beta2 released) and Firefox capturing the market quickly, hmm only time will tell :D Personally, I liked the look and feel of Chrome, as it is with Google search its very simple still feature rich. Moving the tabs on top of the window is a great move, I never thought about that while using IE/FF, but it...(read more)

Startup Delayer - A cool tool to save your time after you reboot your machine

2008-08-31T08:55:00Z

Speed up your computer's startup time by delaying applications to start at a later time....(read more)

The page cannot be displayed problem with classic asp pages under IIS

2008-08-07T04:47:00Z

Today I was working on a requirement to use an aspx page with my classic asp application, so I created an asp.net solution, added one website project and added my old asp files to it. When I tried running my old asp pages I got "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error page, I tried all sort of things, changing default website properties, my asp.net website properties etc. etc. but no luck. After a lot of hit and trial I got this error when I used Ctrl + F5 to reload the page - So it seems...(read more)

VS 2005 Report Designer Glitch II

2008-08-06T06:41:00Z

Glitches with visual studio report designer...(read more)

Firebug Lite : Firebug for IE, Safari, and Opera

2008-08-01T06:46:00Z

Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers other then "Firefox". ...(read more)

tsvn:logtemplate : Enforcing strict format to SVN check-in mails.

2008-07-18T14:28:00Z

TortoiseSVN is a free open-source client for the Subversion version control system. Sometimes you want to have a more detailed information about a file/directory than just the icon overlay. Tortoise SVN provides some very useful properties for this purpose; tsvn:logtemplate is one of them ...(read more)

Debugging classic ASP web application with Visual Studio 2005

2008-07-16T15:34:00Z

How to debug Active Server Pages (ASP) Web applications using Visual Studio debugging capabilities....(read more)