There is a very simple way to prevent people from seeing your directory listing via the web browser’s address bar. You can prevent it at the root level (www) or inany sub level folder. All you need is a file … Read the rest
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Toon Boom Animation – Rotate an object from a camera angle skewing the camera
Issue: You have this record player. The record is round and rotates as you designed it. So far so good.
You attempt to skew the entire object (we are just going to skew the record for demonstration purposes) to give
… Read the rest Microsoft Visual Studio – How to extract characters from a data string
Let’s say you have a string of data from a credit card that you swiped using a credit card swiper device. In the standard formatted string of data that is received into your string variable from the credit card, you … Read the rest
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Can’t disable a textField in Flash?
Other controls such as the combox box, numeric stepper, checkbox, and radio button can be disabled
(shaded light grey and can no longer be interacted with) via the designer or programmatically if desired.
What about the textField? As you can … Read the rest
Microsoft Outlook – How to unblock a file extension that Microsoft Outlook (Office 2007) won’t allow to be read or sent
You can define what outlook blocks or does not block by using this registry key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookSecurity]
“Level1Remove”=”.mdb;.zip;.exe;.url;.reg;.app”
Add to “Level1Remove” all extensions you do not want Outlook to block.
See the following article for more detail.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829982… Read the rest
SQL Server – How to inner join a table to receive just one row of that table where a field is MAX. For example, has the greatest date.
This SQL statement will produce one row for each record found on the account_table for a given account number
We want also want to join the name and address table to the row. We only want one row from the … Read the rest
Active Reports 6 – Sort a collection in Active Reports
In this example, we take an unsorted Product Collection called ProductCollection that is assigned
to our report Data Source. We instantiate another Product Collection for sorting called
sortedProductCollection. Using a Do Loop, we read the Product Collection and build the… Read the rest
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – Multiple IIf statements in an expression behind a textbox
Instead of using a code behind for simple decisions, you can use unlimited multiple IIf statements in an expression behind a textbox.
For example, let’s say you have a parameter called HoldType that can have 3 different values, (1, 2, … Read the rest
Microsoft Silverlight – Setting Initial Focus on Silverlight Control
Even though you may have set focus to your first enterable textbox in a Silverlight Control, it will not truly receive the focus until the actual Silverlight control has focus first.
In order to do this, add a few lines … Read the rest
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – How to Receive an Image into a Report Parameter to a SSRS Report
In this example, I will demonstrate how to convert an image in an Windows Form Application to a Base64 String that can be used to populate a report parameter that will be received into a SQL Server Reporting Services report … Read the rest