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Perfect Full Page Background Image
Published by Chris Coyier This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now being being republished as it has been entirely revised . Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times.Tip/Trick: Show Detailed ASP.NET Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)
Problem: You are developing/maintaining an ASP.NET web-site, and would like the ability to conditionally show/hide runtime error messages depending on who the user visiting the site is. For a normal user visiting the site you want to be able to display a friendly error message like this when a runtime error occurs: But when someone within the “developers” security role of your application remotely accesses the site you want to instead show a more detailed exception stack trace error message about the problem without having to change any configuration data: The below post describes how to use ASP.NET’s role-based security architecture in conjunction with the Global.asax Application_Error event handler to enable this. You can also download a sample I’ve built that shows how to implement this here .
To save you all (as well as my future self) the trouble of searching all over the place just to find terrible answers on almost every form post out there. Here is a small ASP.NET/C# code snippet that will prompt the user with the save/open dialog box to download a file. String FileName = "FileName.txt"; String FilePath = "C:/.
ASP.NET/C# Prompt a Save Dialog Box to Download a File
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Setting Up Virtual Hosts for XAMPP
Running a Web server on your desktop computer is a great way to speed up Web site development. By previewing your Web pages directly through a Web server on your own computer you can test out server-side programming like server-side include files, form processing scripts, or database-driven Web pages. However, there’s one problem associated with running a server on your own computer: by default, you only have a single "domain"–http://localhost/–so if you work on more than one Web site you put them all under "localhost" in different directories.Image Blocking in Email Clients: Current Conditions and Best Practices
For the most current results on image blocking in email clients, view our updated post . Many people, either by email client defaults or personal preference, are blocking images in the HTML-formatted messages they are accepting. And then there are a small number of people who block HTML entirely. As David Greiner points out , according to a study by Epsilon Interactive 30% of your recipients don’t even know that images are disabled. In any case, it’s logical for recipients to block images and good practice for us to prepare for this scenario.