EPiServer declines to support XForms on IE8 for CMS 4.x

According to this thread http://world.episerver.com/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=28931&epslanguage=en it seems that EPiServer is denying responsibility to make XForms on EPiServer 4.x work with IE8 since IE8 was released after EPiServer 4.x.

The customers are experiencing an error when loading XForms with radiobuttons and/or checkboxes. The error is “invalid form” (translated from the Norwegian “ugyldig skjema”).

UPDATE 2011-01-17: Also I have experienced that in IE8, the submit button will not submit the xform which is strange, since it should be calling a javascript function: “return(false)”, and then specifying an action string.

In the comments to this posting, Björn Sållarp has proposed a solution from his blog: http://blog.sallarp.com/episerver-xforms-ie8/

Save power on the cell phone

My HTC S730 is using a lot of power, and has little standby time. Recently it stopped working, so I played with the settings, and by setting the Band Select (“Båndvalg” in Norwegian, and number 3 on the Settings menu) to a fixed value in stead of using the “Auto” option, my phone now uses a lot less power. I selected the “GSM” network type and the “Euro band” band type. My standby time used to be like one to two days, but now its about twice that.

Getting paths for an application

I am creating an application that needs to load an assembly dynamically from the bin-folder of the application. This is not as straight forward as one might think.

So I tried the following:

string s1 = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string s2 = Environment.CurrentDirectory;
string s3 = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
string s4 = new DirectoryInfo("~/bin").FullName;
string s5 = new DirectoryInfo("/bin").FullName;
string s6 = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData);
string s7 = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);
string s8 = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase);

Results:

s1 = s2 = “C:\Windows\system32”

s3 = "C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\Temporary ASP.NET Files\\root\\101551d3\\93890f66\\assembly\\dl3\\f2069ce7\\fe4f0aea_dc32ca01\\MyAssemblyName.DLL"

s4 = "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\~\\bin"

s5 = "C:\\bin"

s6 = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\MyMachineName\\ASPNET\\Local Settings\\Application Data" (getting desperate, I know)

s7 = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\MyMachineName\\ASPNET\\Application Data"

Finally found one that worked:

s8 = “file:\\C:\\DevProjects\\…\\MyAppDir\\bin”