Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in December 2004

Animated GIF images in hidden page elements
December 27, 2004 @ 6:44 pm

I've run into a problem with animated gifs inside of a hidden area of a Web page that is hidden with style.display='none'. When the area is made visible again, in Internet Explorer this causes the image to not be displayed an animated GIF whatever I try.

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Default Button Submissions in ASP.NET Pages
December 26, 2004 @ 12:39 pm

Default Form submissions when pressing ENTER on a form can cause some unexpected results in your ASP.NET forms if you make assumptions about your POSTBACK state.

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ASP.NET Cache and Session State Storage
December 22, 2004 @ 4:41 pm

The underlying storage mechanism for Cache and Session objects are pretty important in understanding some limitations you need to look out for.

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Web Application Stress Tool and A.C.T not working when disconnected from Network
December 22, 2004 @ 1:22 pm

Did you know that Web Application Stress Tool (WAST) and Application Test Center (ACT) don't work unless you have a network connection? For those of you demo'ing at conferences or at a client site without a connection, that might come as a nasty surprise.

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Application driven Basic Authentication with Apache?
December 22, 2004 @ 12:16 pm

I can't seem to figure out how to set up Basic Authentication so that I can have anonymous access on a directory and basic for application fired basic auth requests. Help...

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ISAPI, IIS and Apache: I must be in Hell!
December 20, 2004 @ 1:24 am

In order to integrate an ISAPI extension to work in Apache I had to make a number of changes which in turn opened up a whole new can of worms for various other incompatibilities between IIS and Apache's ISAPI handling...

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Some updates to the wwASPRuntimeHost Class for hosting the ASP.NET runtime
December 18, 2004 @ 12:40 am

A long while back I posted an article about hosting the ASP.NET runtime. I've made a few enhancements to the class mentioned and they're described in some detail here.

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Burn out - time to get out for a bit
December 14, 2004 @ 11:25 pm

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Importing an HTML document into Word via COM Automation and dealing with Image Embedding (revisited)
December 14, 2004 @ 10:58 pm

This entry revisits a topic I talked about earlier and resolves some of the issues I ran into. Specificially this entry deals with importing HTML into Word and forcing images to get embedded into the document and dealing with Word's excessive memory usage (and frequent lockups) when looping through large collections of the document.

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Beta Perversion
December 10, 2004 @ 12:03 am

What Microsoft calls a Beta is not what used be called a beta. Today Microsoft's betas are more of a marketing effort than a true effort to involve customers in building a better product.

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Help with working with multiple Unicode Locales in a VFP ANSI application
December 09, 2004 @ 7:14 pm

I've been working on a problem that needs to work with multiple high bit languages in single Visual FoxPro application. Visual FoxPro is not Unicode enabled - only Unicode aware and while i can get a single language/locale to work fine, working with multiple languages eludes me.

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Some observation on ASP.NET and COM Impersonation
December 08, 2004 @ 10:04 am

Some interesting notes about COM objects called from ASP.NET using Impersonation.

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Creating a C#/.NET CGI Executable
December 05, 2004 @ 8:20 pm

Here's an example of how to create a CGI executable for .NET with C#.

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Speed up your PDFs
December 04, 2004 @ 9:47 am

Need to speed up your display of PDF files in Acrobat? Here's a utility that optimizes PDF startup that reduces the startup time drastically!

Back from OzFox in Australia
December 03, 2004 @ 11:32 am

OzFox in Australia was a ton of fun and a successful if small conference. Now I'm done and after a few months of on and off travelling I finally get to stick around home a bit!

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