web-development

What new technologies should I learn for Web Development?

I want to increase my skills in web development. I have already picked up a book on JQuery and Entity Framework. Is their anything else I should read up on? ...

Visual Studio and C# and Web Developer Productivity Tools /Helps

I'm looking into Productivity tools for developing in C# / Visual Studio 2008 (pr0) and developing web apps (not using MVC). Anything from favourite visual studio shortcuts to external tools and plug-ins. ...

Share & Embed Widget design samples?

I am searching for some sample interface or design for creating a "Share & Embed Widget or Link" interface in my website. I found scribd.com's interface interesting http://www.scribd.com/doc/22735617/Senate-Health-Care-Bill here click on "Share & Embed" link given in top-right of the doc. Could any one please provide me some sample li...

How do you think Google is handling this encoding issue?

I recently came across an encoding issue specific to how Firefox encodes URLs directly entered into the address bar. It basically looks like the default Firefox character encoding for URLs is NOT UTF-8, which is the case with most browsers. Additionally, it looks like they are trying to make some intelligent decisions as to what characte...

ASP vs. ASP.NET ( Thin client vs. thick client )

I'm troubled by this question for a long time now. I work in the little company in Eastern Europe. We work primarily for local clients, web apps, mostly b2b and b2c-s. Our internet infrastructure is not a very good, so we often have problems with local isp-s and hosts that are stationed in companies who have information systems that we b...

Which browsers support data URIs and since which version?

Which browsers support data URIs (RFC 2397) and since which version? ...

Open Source & Free Adhoc / End User Reporting Tool

Hi, I am looking for an Open Source & Free Browser based Adhoc / End User Reporting Tool preferably based on Java (any other technologies are also welcome). I have researched on JasperServer Pro, BIRT & Pentaho. Even though these are open source & free, the end user/adhoc reporting components needs to be paid annual license fees which...

Is it possible to combine Air and ASP.Net in one app?

I would love know if i could combine Air, and ASP.Net in one application and what design strategy would suit this type of application. Please. ...

Can i embed an image on my asp send mail?

hello all i have a client that has old school asp. Is it possible to edit the asp file to embeded an image? i only have the asp file and inside that asp file it has an auto response form like this body = "Dear " & cName & "," & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "Your request for the " & vehHeader & " (" & FormatCurrency(vehPrice)& ")" & " has been rec...

long term cookie

I'm looking for a way for users to be able to connect to my application easily, but rarely. What I want to do is be able to store a cookie with a 1 year life on the user's computer. If they access the website while the cookie is active, they will be automatically logged in. My proposed solution is this: Upon initial login, create a c...

ECommerce solution in php and ror

Hello, I'm a developer but I never used php nor ruby on rails. I would like to create a small e-commerce website. I found out 2 solutions that seems very good, Prestahop and Spree. Which one would you recommend if I want to be able to customize the skin, calculate different taxes for different countries, use different languages ... ...

iTextSharp asp.net Bulleted List to PDF

Hi There, I have a asp.net web page with some contents and a BulletedList with some international characters, I am using iTextSharp library to export to PDF format. How can I export only this BulletedList with international characters to PDF. Any Ideas? Thanks ...

What does default CSS's browsers depend on ?

Hi (please excuse me for my ugly english ;-) ) Do you know if the default CSS of any user agent ... : depends on its release number ? depends on its layout engine ? depends on the release number of its layout engine ? depends on the OS ? depends on the OS release number ? If yes (for any choice), have you any example do demonstrate ...

IE's XHTML Compatibility

Hi stackoverflow, I'm having a rather heated debate into IE's XHTML Compatibility. The only thing is, I'm unsure if the guy is trolling. Essentially he claims that IE has absolutely no XHTML compatibility, and that a document with a defined XHTML doctype means absolutely nothing when served as content type text/html, regardless of the...

ASP.Net Security By Route

I'm working with ASP.Net Dynamic Data and I have a section in my web.config like this: <location path="Foo/List.aspx"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow roles="The Name of Some Role"/> <deny users="*"/> </authorization> </system.web> </location> This works fine for restricting access to that path, however lat...

is it good to use Wait cursor in websites?

Hi all. Just wanted to ask - is it good to use Wait cursor in websites? on heavy loading pages.. we dont generally see it used with websites...(please share some if u have seen any) if i implement the following.... will it be compatible with the current browsers? function doHourglass() { document.body.style.cursor = 'wait'; } and...

General web developer and Microsoft certifications, a necessary evil in the corporate world, what is available and relevant?

I'm a ASP.NET (MVC &Web Forms)/C# web developer (my CV) and I'm unsure what I should do about certifications. My employer encourages and pays for them and they are strongly recommended if we want to move up in pay. I know there are Microsoft certifications for web development. I don't want to be pigeon-holed as only a Microsoft develo...

When would I use my own RouteHandler?

I understand that in ASP.Net DynamicData (and maybe regular ASP or MVC) I can provide my own RouteHandler routes.Add(new DynamicDataRoute("{table}/{action}.aspx") { RouteHandler = new CustomRouteHandler() }); public class CustomRouteHandler : DynamicDataRouteHandler { public override IHttpHandler CreateHandler(DynamicDataRoute...

what are the recommended methods to create online 3d gaming engine ?

i want to create an online 3d game of roads and city buildings (supposed to have good graphics). i would prefer that it will work for all major Os's (linux,windows,mac). I know that for example adobe shockwave can do that, but unfortunately there is no linux support. ...

How do you Debug/Run classic asp pages in Visual Studio 2008?

Whenever I try to open a classic asp page while running the site in VS2008 I get the error: "This type of page is not served". How do you Debug/Run classic asp pages in Visual Studio 2008? AnthonyWJones has the correct answer but it is not letting me select an answer for some reason. Here is a tutorial I found that goes into more deta...