To set up Opera so that crash-recovery and splash screens are disabled you can do the following:
On Opera, type opera:config in the url bar to edit configuration.
Modify the configuration:
Recovery Strategy = 0
and
Uncheck Show Problem Dialog
Opera 9+ don’t show the session restore window
July 28th, 2011FireFox 2.x don’t show the session restore window
July 25th, 2011When FireFox 2.x came out it was the first version that introduced session restore if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).
This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” and setting this to false
Also you probably want to check out the startup options under “Tools->Options->When Firefox starts”
(This can also be used to show the session restore window by setting the “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” to true)
Note: This can also be used with Flock versions 2.6.x as that is based on FireFox
PHP raw POST data
July 22nd, 2011To read the raw data being posted to a php page (for instance when $_POST is empty due to problems with encoding types or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not being readable due to php.ini settings) reading file_get_contents is a nice solution.
$postData = file_get_contents('php://input');
PHPMailer send mail in UTF-8 encoding
July 4th, 2011PHPMailer does not seem to auto-detect encodings, so if you wish to send mail in (for instance UTF-8) you need to tell PHPMailer this. Thankully that is very easy
$phpMailerObject->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
Adding htmlattributes to a ActionLink
May 7th, 2011To add htmlattributes to a ActionLink might be needed for instance for the layout of the page.
@Html.ActionLink("Link text", "action", "Controller", null, new {style="float:left"}) //Adding a css class (need the @sign as class is a keyword for the compiler). It is also possible to use a Capitol C in Class but then it fails some validations. @Html.ActionLink("Link text", "action", "Controller", null, new {@class="myCssClassName"}) //the syntax for the Html.ActionLink (used in this example is) public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink( string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, IDictionary<string, Object> htmlAttributes )
C# MVC# create a URI from a Url.Action
April 30th, 2011Sometimes the need arises to create a URI object instead of just a link. This can be done by using Url.Action.
new Uri(Url.Action("action", "controller", null, Request.Url.Scheme)) //definitions public Uri( string uriString ) public string Action( string actionName, string controllerName, Object routeValues, string protocol )
Specifying what area an ActionLink should use
April 30th, 2011Using routevalues you can tell the html helper what area you want to create a action link to.
//create a link that will go to AreaName Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "AreaName" }, new{}) //Default area (= no area) Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "" }, new{}) //create a link that will go to AreaName and with some htmlAttributes Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "AreaName" }, new{@class="myCssClass"}) //Definition public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink( string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, IDictionary<string, Object> htmlAttributes )
asp.net C# Url.Action with routevalues
April 30th, 2011Using routevales you can change area and/or pass parameters on to the link you wish to hit.
//"normal" Url.Action - creates a link in the area where it is called from (and don't pass any values along) <a href="@Url.Action("action", "controller")" class="myCssClass">link text</a> //Url.Action with a that links to another area (area name or empty for the default area); also sets the category to shoes and it passes along the id that this view has. <a href="@Url.Action("action", "controller", new { Area = "", id = Model.id, category="shoes"})" class="myCssClass">link text</a>
C# Url encoding/Decoding using the HttpUtility
April 30th, 2011When there is need to encode/decode a url then the HttpUtility has a function that does this for us.
HttpUtility.UrlDecode(url) HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url)
Sending ctrl+alt+del through remote desktop
April 30th, 2011To send the ctrl+alt+del keystrokes when in a remote desktop you press ctrl+alt+end.