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.
On 20 Apr 2010, In Development, by Simon Dingley
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.
On 22 Mar 2010, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
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.
On 02 Mar 2010, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
I have recently needed to use the Umbraco datePicker control in a usercontrol I was creating however I kept getting presented with an “Unknown server tag ‘umbraco:datePicker” exception. After some digging around in the Umbraco Source it is confusingly not in the assembly I would have expected but it was in fact located in the [...]
On 04 Feb 2010, In Miscellaneous, by Simon Dingley
I was recently working in a clients office where they have very little IT Support and they had a new member of staff on board without a PC. The person that setup the IT infrastructure at the beginning had left a hard drive with an image and a CD to copy the image to any [...]
There was a time not so long ago, when website developers were treated with almost as much reverence as pilots and surgeons. After all, without a website, your business was just not a player, non-existent, invisible to the world. No one had any idea as to what they did, or how they did it, just [...]
