Most projects I work on need a list of countries at some point so I put together a snippet of SQL that I could reuse to create and populate a countries table in the database with all countries as given in ISO 3166-1. After recently writing a utility class to populate list controls with world [...]
Ever needed to know which ASP.Net worker process (w3wp.exe) belongs to an App Pool? Well I did recently when I needed to attach to it for debugging and there was no obvious way to find out which process related to each app pool. A little bit of research led me to discover AppCmd.exe. I wrote [...]
I recently had a client who had some issues delivering mail from their site so I went to look at the SMTP logs only to find that there were none there (I am embarrassed to say). I notice that I had configured the logs to be written to a custom directory on a separate drive from the operating system and thought [...]
A requirement that came up recently required a drop down list of world currencies. I developed a reusable method for populating a ListControl with World Currencies using components from the .Net Framework alone.
You may receive a 403 error when you use an ASP request to upload a large file in Internet Information Services, the type of error you may get is “Request object error ‘ASP 0104 : 80004005′ Operation not Allowed”. This can be fixed by amending the AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed value in the IIS Metabase and this article details just how.
Based on a recent experience and a lot of wasted time, this post details why you really should set the validation group on validation controls that you add to your custom Umbraco user controls.
