Code Defination Window – Tip of week #13

There are a few hidden gems in Visual Studio that are easy to overlook. One of those is the Code Definition Window (ctrl+\,ctrl+d or View – Code Definition Window).
The Code Definition Window will work in two different ways. The first is with your current code editing window. As you navigate your code, [...]

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Microsoft Releases Open-source Content Management App

Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites.
Called Oxite, its creators describe it as a standards-compliant and highly extensible content management platform. They built it not because there is a need for another blog engine, but because they were [...]

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Server Application Unavailable

Many a time while developing a web application you may come accross “Server application unavailable”

When you get this error in Windows XP make sure you have given ASPNET user sufficient rights on your physical application folder, it mainly requires read permission.
When you get this error in Windows 2003 server you can right click your virtual [...]

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Access Master Page Controls from Content Pages without using FindControl

Assume in the master page, we have a user control which we need to access and set its visiblity from content page. We create a public property in the master page called controlVisiblity
public bool LoginControlVisible
{
get
{
return LoginControl.Visible;
}
set
{
LoginControl.Visible = value;
}
}
To gain access to the master page file from the content page, you just need to add the [...]

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“content encoding error” while using blogengine.net

While using BlogEngine.net you may run into “content encoding error” “The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression” this error, to resolve this, find
<add name=”CompressionModule” type=”BlogEngine.Core.Web.HttpModules.CompressionModule, BlogEngine.Core”/>
in your web.config file and comment this line of code. This error mostly arrives when you host [...]

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