Category: Development

Script errors in Enterprise Manager’s ‘taskpad’ view

Script errors when using Taskpad view in Enterprise Manager for SQL Server 2000

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Umbraco : Locate nearest node with specific property

In an ongoing project I am working on I needed to adapt a custom user control that was being used as a DataType in Umbraco. I needed to locate the nearest node that had a specific property set and default the selected value of my control to the value of the property in the parent document.

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Drupal : Fatal error: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted

A project I am currently working on needs the facility to export a couple of thousand users and user profiles and I was getting out of memory errors. A quick search helped me discover that rather than editing the php.ini to increase memory for all sites on the server I can do it on an [...]

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Invalid object name ‘umbracoUser’

Yet another problem on an Umbraco v4.0 site I am working on currently. The site will be hosted on a VPS with Plesk as mentioned in an earlier post, I needed to restore a backup of the remote database locally but after restoring it my local development copy throws the exception “Invalid object name ‘umbracoUser”. [...]

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Umbraco v4 Upgrade Problem with Plesk Hosting

A project I am working on currently is hosted on a VPS with a Plesk control panel. When attempting to upgrade from RC3 to the final release the process kept getting stuck on the database check stage as it was trying to write to the web.config but it appears it needs to write a temporary [...]

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Recreate .designer files in Visual Studio 2008

For some reason or another I ended up with a corrupt default.aspx.designer.cs file in a recent web project, a quick check with my best friend(Google) and the solution it seemed couldn’t be easier. Delete the .designer file and right click the .aspx file and select “Convert to Web Application”…were you expecting more? Sorry, that’s all [...]

SQL Server Stored Procedure to Change Object Owner

This is more of a note for myself but it’s handy little snippet for future reference to change the owner of objects in a MS SQL Server database. This is particularly handy when objects have been created by web applications and not set the object owner to dbo. To view th source code for the [...]

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Running Umbraco v4 on ASP.NET 3.5

A project I am currently working on is based on the soon to be launched Umbraco v4 and as I will be running it on a new server I wanted to use the lastest and greatest version of the .Net framework. I didn’t get off to a great start as the ASP.NET AJAX references in [...]

‘Sys’ is Undefined in ASP.NET AJAX

A project that I was updating recently didn’t start out its life as an ASP.NET AJAX enabled application so it was being upgraded to take advantage of some of the features and controls available in the AjaxControlToolkit. I added the necessary references to my project and added the assemblies to the Web.config and things seemed [...]

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