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Student Position available at Castner IT
Castner IT is an IT consulting firm that provides business system analysis, web development, and intranet development services to companies in Australia and the United States. We offer services across the full development lifecycle and develop systems using ASP.NET, C#, SharePoint, and SQL Server.
We currently have a position opening for a suitably qualified person to [...]
A random list of recommended software utilities
I’ve found this random list of software to be really useful for tasks from working with images to improving Internet Explorer to developing FaceBook applications.
1. IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) – great for basic image editing (resizing, cropping, creating thumbnails, etc.) and screen capturing.
2. WinRAR (www.rarlabs.com) – great for working with zip and other compressed files. Also great [...]
Converting SQL Server newline character to HTML break <br/>
A common scenario (at least for me) is the following:
1. Accept text input into a web form that includes multiline text boxes. The text often includes line breaks.
2. The text is stored in a database such as SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2005 has no problem storing the line breaks.
3. I then display the data [...]
Configuring SQL Server 2005 for database-driven web pages
SQL Server 2005 has enhanced security that prevents it initially from serving data for web pages. Here are the configuration settings to check before trying to create database driven web pages in Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, or any other web design application. Note that some of these settings reduce the security level of SQL Server 2005.
SURFACE [...]
Using Microsoft Outlook to consolidate your email
1. uoregon email
The UO IT department has a great page with instructions for viewing your uoregon e-mail through Outlook and other e-mail programs:
http://it.uoregon.edu/help/email/setup.shtml
2. Hotmail
Use the Microsoft Outlook connector available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&displaylang=en
3. Gmail
Follow the instructions at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86374 (POP) or http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77689&topic=12814 (IMAP)
Basic error handling for ASP.NET web sites
To avoid displaying the complicated error messages displayed by the .NET framework, you can direct users to a more user-friendly page by inserting the following tags into your web.config file:
<customErrors mode=”RemoteOnly” defaultRedirect=”errors/error.aspx”> <error statusCode=”404″ redirect=”errors/error404.aspx”/></customErrors>
Using this method of error handling also has the added benefit of not displaying sensitive server information to the user (or [...]
Connecting to your LCB network folder (I: Drive) from your laptop or home desktop
If you want to connect to your LCB network drive (I: drive) from home, here are the steps:
1. If you connect to the Internet via a service provider other than the UO (e.g. Comcast, QWest), then you need to download and install the VPN (virtual private network) software available from http://micro.uoregon.edu/getconnected/ or obtain a duckware [...]
Using the ASP.NET calendar control to display event information
The calendar control is useful for displaying event dates that users can then click on for more information. Here are the steps for setting up the calendar control to display event information from database.
1. Place a calendar control on the required page (for example, default.aspx)
2. Create a second page called calendar.aspx for displaying the event [...]
Search engine tools
These tools can help you analyze your pages and optimize them for improved search engine rankings.
1. Yahoo Site Explorer: Allows you to see which pages are linking to your site. For example, link:isom.uoregon.edu will show you all pages that link to isom.uoregon.edu
2. Google Webmaster tools: Tools that ensure Google is indexing your site correctly.
More tools [...]