CustomValidator dependent on multiple controls

This article describes how to validate 2 or more controls to see if at least 1 of them has content.

Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit downloads

Useful stuff for MS Office Developers.

The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server.

This error sometimes occurs when consuming webservices through a proxy.

Load Balancing / EPiServer

Just putting in a few links so I won't loose them:

How to configure a Windows Server 2003 Load Balancing cluster:
Web Farming with the Network Load Balancing Service in Windows Server 2003

EPiServer:
Configuring the Cache in Multi-Server Scenarios
Configuring EPiServer Enterprise Edition

Script error on ASP.NET 1.1 pages

I got an error message on my aspx web page after one of the latest Windows updates:

Unable to find script library '/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js'. Try placing this file manually, or reinstall by running 'aspnet_regiis -c'.

After trying to reinstall the script library, and reinstalling aspnet on my web application, I found a solution by simply adding the following code to my aspx file:


<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js"></script>

Update:
After I put in the script-tag above in my "master page", I got an other error on pages not having any validation controls, so I had to put in a hidden dummy validator.

Changing Locale of the ASPNET account

I have a server that has been installed using default language/locale "en-US".

This becomes a problem with the date format, which is "MM/dd/yyyy" in en-US, while in Norway where I live we use (nb-NO) "dd.MM.yyyy".

There is also a problem with which character to use as a decimal point and which to use as a thousand marker/separator:
Norwegian (nb-NO): decimal point is comma (",") , thousand marker is space. Ex: 2 345,67
US English (en-US): decimal point is dot ("."), thousand marker is comma. Ex: 2,345.67

So I need a way to set the locale that the ASPNET account is using.

There are several ways. You can set this in the web.config file:

<system.web>
    <globalization
        culture="nb-NO"
        uiCulture="nb-NO" />
</system.web>

You can also set it in the users session, by using the Session_Start event handler:

protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.Session.LCID = 1044;
}

If you want to change the default settings of the ASPNET account (and you have the guts), you could go in and change the settings in the registry.

NB! It may be risky to change settings in the registry. The author of this blog is not responsible for any damage that may be caused by doing so.

Anyway here it is, change the settings under the following key:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\International

Here you can see settings for number formats, date formats languages etc for the user. I have as of now NOT TESTED THIS, but the key for the ASPNET user should according to a news group be S-1-5-20.

Good luck!

ADODB serialization

Found a simple but cool way to serialize an ADODB Recordset without converting to DataSet on CodeProject.

Security Developer Center: Security Tips: Defend Your Code with Top Ten Security Tips Every Developer Must Know

Not sure if I have bookmarked this before. Well, better safe than sorry...

Build your own cryptographically safe server/client protocol - The Code Project - Internet & Network

Good article that explains quite a bit about how cryptography works.

Some Cool Tips for .NET - The Code Project - C# Controls

Nice to know info on how to get information about windows and other stuff.

SQL Server Monitoring in 8 Steps: Lessons From the Field

How to get a quick status of the server while on-site.

Free JavaScript DHTML Website Menus, Cross Browser Popup Web Menu

Nice, free Javascript menus.

The Soul of a Virtual Machine : Sysprepping a virtual machine

Description of how to sysprep a VPC. Useful stuff.

HttpSecureCookie, A Way to Encrypt Cookies with ASP.NET 2.0 - The Code Project - ASP.NET

This article describes how to encrypt cookies in .NET 2.0.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

This is a nice page with lots of free software links. Among others, web browsers and antivirus programs.

Auditing Web Site Authentication, Part One

Every web developer should read this. Excellent!

An introduction to Web Service Security using WSE - Part I - The Code Project - C++ Web Services

Some big players as Microsoft and IBM built a group that dealed with the security problem (of Web Services), finally offering several specifications. The most important, and foundation of the others, is Web Service-Security (WS-Security or WSS).

SSH : Support : Cryptography A-Z

Site with a lot of information on cryptography, and different algorithms.

Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

This is very cool! Nice and free collection of code snippets from Microsoft, ready for pasting into your application source.

Server-Side Asynchronous Methods for ASP.NET and WinFX - The Code Project - C# WebServices

This article describes how to make asychronous calls to a web service. This is useful when the web service has to perform some task that takes a while to complete before returning the result to the client. By making an asynchronous call, the thread of the calling process can go back into the pool and be useful for other purposes while waiting for the response.