In my previous blog, I showed you how to check to see if a user was locked out and if so, how to manipulate the FailureText of the Login control to notify the user to contact the admin to fix …
Month: November 2012
Microsoft Visual Studio – ASP.Net How to Access the UserName Textbox of a LoginView Control’s Login Control and Manipulate the FailureText
Let’s say you have your web.config set to allow the user only 3 attempts to get the password correct when logging in. After 3 attempts, the profile table sets the isLockedOut column to ‘True’. You want to display this to …
Windows 7 – Could not find this item – when deleting files
Sometimes applications save files and folders in a way that can’t be deleted via Windows Explorer. The solution is to determine 8.3 format (Short file name) via a command prompt and delete the file within the command prompt dialog as …
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – How to pass multiple values to a multi value parameter
The short answer is to pass a string array in the value portion of the parameter object.
First, let’s look at the code in a visual basic forms application that builds the parameter and calls the report.
Let’s say we …
Microsoft Visual Studio – ASP.Net How to Mask Your URL by Using a Fake ASPX Name
Let’s say you want to keep hidden from a user of your website the actual aspx page name along with any query string passed to it.
Here is an example of a complete url you want to mask:
www.example.com/original.aspx?parameter1=12345
The …
Microsoft Visual Studio – ASP.Net How to Make a Hyperlink (or Any Other Control) Visible on Page Based on Role
This article assumes you are using roles and have assigned roles to certain users that log in to your website.
Let’s say I have an aspx page with four hyperlinks. I want HyperLink3 and HyperLink4 to be made visible on …
SQL Server Management Studio – Studio hangs when trying to select my database hosted by ARVIXE
This post will give you step by step instructions on how to fix the issue in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio that causes the studio to hang, spin, or loop forever when trying to select a database from the plethora …