How to handle pages not rendering correctly after an Internet Information Services upgrade.
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A Quick Code Snippet in VB.Net/ ASP.Net- Picks a random string from the set.
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In an ASP.Net page you can easily get the username of the currently logged in user with Request.ServerVariables(“AUTH_USER”). With the following code snippet you can also get their real name (the “Display Name”) from the Active Directory.
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When using an OnSelectedIndexChanged event on a drop down list in an ASP.NET page, the event code wasn’t getting executed.
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I’ve recently had the need to write an ASP page which reads a SQL database and outputs into Microsoft Excel- a user clicks on a link to this ASP page and Excel opens up with a new spreadsheet of the data. This is how I did it
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A couple of useful network commands in Visual BASIC .NET (2005). These are the equivalents of doing ping and nslookup from the command prompt. The variable sIPAddress in these examples is a string containing the IP to test, i.e. "127.0.0.1"
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I recently had a need to install Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition on a number of machines using a batch file script and a silent -unattended - installation process. Given the age of the application I thought this would be quite straightforward and well documented, but there were a number of hurdles to clear on the …
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