if you are waiting for domain name details to propagate, but need to test the site that will use that domain now, there is an easy way around this. you can just hard code the new dns settings locally on your machine. to do this in windows xp, open C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS and add a line of [...]

Thanks to Communication WEB for pointing out a fix to this error which started springing up after .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 was released. To enhance security, this error will be raised on fetching from a web site if the server’s HTTP headers obey certain rules e.g. there cannot be a space in the header name. [...]

If I’m binding a web control to database values, I generally set it’s properties at run time in the page_load or page_prerender events. However, since Dreamweaver has its own databinding event going on at page load, you can’t refer to controls that have dynamic data sources populated by Dreamweaver there as they will still be [...]

i was wondering why a vb.net class file was throwing up errors when i called the isnumeric function the other day. after some googling i found out from roy osherove’s blog that you now need to import the microsoft.visualbasic namespace to use this and a bunch of other once standard functions. as an aside, if [...]