In a company prospective, what digital transformation is about? In this post I explain my point of view
Digital transformation scenario with Azure, Visual Studio and Git
Search Results for: css
Render in MVC a link with image and text
Hi guys, I want in MVC to render a text with an image as an ActionLink. For creating a simple anchor tag, we use Html.ActionLink() helper which generates anchor tag for us. If you want to create something a bit more complicated, you must create you own component. For this reason, I created the following code. It allows you to create an anchor with an image and a text. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; using System.Web.Routing; namespace PSC.MVC.Helpers { public static class CustomHtmlHelpers { ///…
Electron 1.0
For the last two years, Electron has helped developers build cross platform desktop apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Now we’re excited to share a major milestone for our framework and for the community that created it. The release of Electron 1.0 is now available from electron.atom.io. Electron 1.0 represents a major milestone in API stability and maturity. This release allows you to build apps that act and feel truly native on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Building Electron apps is easier than ever with new docs, new tools, and a…
Creating a URL shortener using ASP.NET WepAPI and MVC
In this tutorial, I use several techniques and tools. I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and the latest version of all components. ASP.NET MVC: Microsoft’s modern web application framework. As the name says, it pushes you to use the MVC (model view controller) software design principle. ASP.NET Web API: Web API and MVC are used together in many applications. With MVC, the HTML of the web pages are rendered on the server, and with Web API you can, like the name says, create an API. Web API also uses the…
How to remove HTML tags from data with SQL
The purpose of this article is to provide a way of cleaning up of HTML tags within the data. When we use various styles or tabular format data in UI using Rich Text Editor/ Rad Grid etc, it will save data in database with HTML tags. When you save in database this kind of field you have: An HTML element starts with a start tag (<p>) and ends with end tag (<p/>) and everything between Start tag and End tag is HTML element. e.g. <b>Following are the popular databases: <br…
Using the UpdateProgress to lock down controls in the browser
If it takes awhile for the server to process the postback (e.g. complex rules or badly written code ), the user may not realize that the server is processing the request. This can lead to all kinds of issues with users that are not savvy or familiar with web applications (multiple clicks, moving off the page, etc.). Consequently, I want to tell the user that the server is processing the request and disable the controls on the page. Let’s break this down into two steps: show a message, and disable…
Why Visual Studio Code?
Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool – supporting OSX, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio family. At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a powerful, fast code editor great for day-to-day use. The Preview release of Code already has many of the features developers need in…
Microsoft announces Microsoft Edge
Today at Build 2015 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its new Web browser called Microsoft Edge. This is the browser formerly known as Project Spartan. Microsoft Edge, the new default browser will ship on all Windows 10 devices including PCs, tablets, smartphones, and Microsoft’s own tablet, Surface. Microsoft Edge is the all-new Windows 10 browser built to give you a better web experience. Write directly on webpages and share your mark-ups with others. Read online articles free of distraction or use the offline reading feature for greater convenience. Microsoft Edge…
IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 96.3% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2014 and the whole year
Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2014, and coincidentally, 96.3 percent for all of last year as well. That means the duopoly grew 0.6 percentage points compared to the same period last year (95.7 percent in Q4 2013) and 2.5 percentage points on an annual basis (93.8 percent in 2013). iCharts The latest figures come from IDC, which puts together these estimates every quarter. Here is the breakdown for the full year: Above: Volume units are in millions. Google’s mobile operating system…
How to Detect Browser (and browser version) using JavaScript
Browser (and browser version) detection is an “all time classic” development requirement. jQuery.browser WAS an excellent solution, but it was removed in jQuery 1.9. Actually, it would be better to try to detect a browser feature instead of browser name itself, where possible. An ideal solution for this is Modernizr (a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser). But, if you still need to detect browser and browser version (using javascript), I suggest the following solutions (among many others): Bowser – A Browser detector and…
How to Enable XP_CMDSHELL using SP_CONFIGURE
In this tip we will take a look at the step to follow to enable or disable XP_CMDSHELL using SP_CONFIGURE system stored procedure. In order to use XP_CMDSHELL you need to be a system administrator. Read the following article which explains how to allow non-administrators to use XP_CMDSHELL. Error Message Received when XP_CMDSHELL is disabled You would end up getting the below mentioned error message when XP_CMDSHELL is disabled. Msg 15281, Level 16, State 1, Procedure xp_cmdshell, Line 1 SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘sys.xp_cmdshell’ of component ‘xp_cmdshell’ because…
How to Disable XP_CMDSHELL using SP_CONFIGURE
It is always considered as a best practice to disable XP_CMDSHELL when not in use. A database administrator can disable XP_CMDSHELL using SP_CONFIGURE system stored procedure. To disable XP_CMDSHELL execute the below mentioned script. Use Master GO EXEC master.dbo.sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 0 RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO EXEC master.dbo.sp_configure ‘show advanced options’, 0 RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO
C# Tutorial for log4net
Here’s a short tutorial on how to use log4net in C# 1. Get log4net from the apache website or use NuGet to include in your project it 2. Add the Appender section to your app.config. The following code uses a file for the logging: <configuration> <configSections> <section name=”log4net” type=”log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net”/> </configSections> <log4net> <root> <level value=”DEBUG” /> <appender-ref ref=”LogFileAppender” /> </root> <appender name=”LogFileAppender” type=”log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender” > <param name=”File” value=”log-file.txt” /> <param name=”AppendToFile” value=”true” /> <rollingStyle value=”Size” /> <maxSizeRollBackups value=”10″ /> <maximumFileSize value=”10MB” /> <staticLogFileName value=”true” /> <layout type=”log4net.Layout.PatternLayout”> <param name=”ConversionPattern” value=”%date [%thread]…
C# Code Snippet – Download Image from URL
This .Net C# code snippet download image from URL. To use this function simply provide the URL of the image you like to download. This function read the image contents using URL and returns downloaded image as an image object. This function download image using web response stream. /// <summary>/// Function to download Image from website/// </summary>/// <param name=”_URL”>URL address to download image</param>/// <returns>Image</returns>public Image DownloadImage(string _URL){ Image _tmpImage = null; try { // Open a connection System.Net.HttpWebRequest _HttpWebRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(_URL); _HttpWebRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true; // You can also specify additional…
ReportViewer: culture, number, color and more
Step 1. Set the “Language” report properties according to your regional requirements. In my case: “es-MX” Step 2. Use the respective Expression, im have: CDbl(Fields!SALE_PRICE.Value).ToString(“C”) When the report running you have before: and after Background Color If you want that the alternate row in a table will be other color, you have to click on the row on Background Color and insert the following expression: =IIF(RowNumber(“Statements”) Mod 2, “White”, “WhiteSmoke”) Change Language If you can change the language of a report it is necessary that you create a parameter (for…
Anonymous View Models in ASP.NET MVC Using Dynamics
The introduction of the dynamic keyword in C# 4.0 allows you to do a lot of things you couldn’t do otherwise, but it also makes it easy to forget that C# is still not a dynamic language, so there are limitations. Recently I found myself wanting to whip up a quick test page for something, with a very simple controller action and view. It wasn’t meant to be permanent, so creating a dedicated view model class in the project seemed like overkill. I figured I could just return an anonymous…
Why does Html.ActionLink render “?Length=4â€
I’m VERY confused as to why this code Html.ActionLink(“About”, “About”, “Home”, new { hidefocus = “hidefocus” }) results in this link: <a hidefocus=”hidefocus” href=”/Home/About?Length=4″>About</a> The hidefocus part is what I was aiming to achieve, but where does the “?Length=4” come from? Solution The Length=4 is coming from an attempt to serialize a string object. Your code is running this ActionLink method: public static string ActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string linkText, string actionName, object routeValues, object htmlAttributes) This takes a string object “Home” for routeValues, which the MVC plumbing searches for public…
Writing Custom HTML Helpers for ASP.NET MVC
As a web forms developer, I found the transition to MVC to be a bit of a shock at first. Without fully understanding the nature of MVC, I found the lack of a Toolbox filled with server controls to be confusing. However, once it became clear that the goal of MVC was to expose HTML markup and give developers full control over what is rendered to the browser, I quickly embraced the idea. Transitioning from Web Forms In MVC development, HTML helpers replace the server control, but the similarities aren’t…
ASP.NET MVC Controller for Serving Images
Introduction Working with images in a web application can turn from a simple task to a complexity in need of some serious attention as soon as traffic starts to grow or image assets become too vast to reasonably maintain multiple versions of each (large, medium, thumbnail). A general reference to an image in a HTML img tag does not provide a way to control caching or additional headers like the ETag to help site speed performance, nor does it provide a true way to handle resizing (the use of the…
Close window without the prompt message
If you tried to close a window using javascript window.close() method in IE7, and as you may noticed a message will prompt “The Webpage you are viewing is trying to close the window. Do you want to close this window”. Because of the security enhancements in IE7, you can’t close a window unless it is opened by a script. so the walkaround will be to let the browser thinks that this page is opened using a script then closing the window. below is the implementation. 1- Create a javascript function…
Creating a simple form wizard in ASP.NET MVC
UPDATE: As of jquery.validation version 1.8+ hidden input fields are not validated by default, which means that the wizard form is submitted without client-side validation being performed. The solution is to set the default back to validating everything in the JavaScript section by including the following line; $.validator.setDefaults({ ignore: “” }); I’ve also added a sample project at the bottom of this post. For small MVC sample application I’m fiddling with on my spare time, I wanted to be able to split my form up in smaller parts, much like…
Implementing Role Based Menu in ASP.NET MVC
In default template of asp.net mvc 4.0, Layout.cshtml has following code for menu: <nav> <ul id=”menu”> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“Home”, “Index”, “Home”)</li> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“About”, “About”, “Home”)</li> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“Contact”, “Contact”, “Home”)</li> </ul></nav> Which is hard-coded for all users. We’ll create partial view for menu to reduce complexity. Right click on Shared folder in Views > select Add > click ViewEnter Name: _Menu and set “Create as a partial view†option true > click AddIt’ll open blank cshtml page. Define Menu Items: In normal asp.net webforms app, Sitemap file is used to define structure. Here we’ll define…
Update to MVC 5.2
The error is: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll’. Type B originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\Users\e.rossini\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\55c43b6b\aa340995\assembly\dl3\a83c308f\965a638d_c896cf01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll’. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in…
Extract detail from barcode on bollettini prefilled (Italy)
namespace PSC{ public class Bollettini { public bool getCode(string strCode) { bool rtn = true; if (strCode.Length != 50) { return false; } int first = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(0, 2)); Bollettino = strCode.Substring(2, first); int second = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + 2, 2)); Contocorrente = strCode.Substring(first + 4, second); int third = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + second + 4, 2)); string tmp = strCode.Substring(first + second + 6, third); Importo = Convert.ToDecimal(tmp) / 100; int fouth = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + second + third + 6, 1)); Codice = strCode.Substring(first + second + third + 7, fouth);…
ASP.NET MVC 4 and Entity Framework Database Migrations
ASP.NET MVC 4 was released in beta by the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Developer Team and it comes with a number of really cool features: Bundling and Minification Support of CSS and JavaScript, Database Migrations using Entity Framework 4.3, Web APIs, Mobile Web with support for jQuery Mobile, Real Time Communication via SignalR, and Asynchronous Support. The Database Migrations using Entity Framework Code-First is really cool and is very much like Rails where you can change your code and then via Package Manager add migrations and update your database as your…
