http://www.alectang.com Professional Workspace & Portfolio in Web 2.0 Development & Project Management Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:39:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a method or properties to be overridable, it must has a virtual property in its base class set as true as well, is final must be set as true. To determine whether a method is overridable, it is not sufficient to check that IsVirtual is true. For a method ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/06/18/check-if-method-is-overridable/ A very easy way to connect ASP.NET application to use MySQL database is to use the MySQL Net Connector. With just the following lines of code, you can easily hookup your ASP.NET application to any MySQL db. [sourcecode language="c#"]   public static string GetConnectionString()         {             string connStr = String.Format("server=hostname;user id=dbname; password=password;database=dbname; pooling=false", ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/06/17/how-to-connect-asp-net-app-to-use-mysql/ I found something very interesting to know this morning, that is Firefox's always shown fonts in web page a little differently than IE browsers. IE tends to show fonts more smooth and nice. There's actually a way to change the settings so that Firefox could show fonts and lines more ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/05/28/make-firefox-show-fonts-nicely-as-internet-explorers/ This post points out how to ajaxify a page, which contains a usercontrol that is updatable by user. Whenever the usercontrol's controls are updated, we will use Ajax to catch that updates and display at parent page. This is doable and it just requires a delegate to be registered in ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/05/26/ajaxify-a-page-with-usercontrols-using-delegate/ A very interesting news article today saying that Australia happens to be the safest country in the world throughout the economy downturn. Coming along, China and Singapore ranked 2nd and third space respectively. Wow, that's pretty impressive. http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,25545056-462,00.html http://www.alectang.com/2009/05/26/australia-safest-to-be-in-economy-crisis/ I stumbled upon an error when deploying a web application onto IIS7 running on Vista. After days of trying to solve, it's actually due to the fact that the application is set to medium trust but it actually needs Full Trust due to using Reflection in the code. There's not ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/05/24/security-exception-when-running-on-iis7/ A very handy tool to compress the annoying webresources.axd script. http://madskristensen.net/post/Compress-WebResourceaxd-in-ASPNET.aspx http://www.alectang.com/2009/05/11/compress-webresourceaxd-in-client-side-html/ Saw some photos showcasting the wild weather of South Australia, for those who are thinking of coming to SA to work. http://www.alectang.com/2009/04/28/wild-wild-adelaide/ When using radio button in a repeater item template, there's a problem of grouping them to a unique name. Solution can be found: http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/3623096 http://www.alectang.com/2009/04/26/radio-button-problems-in-a-repeater-item-template/ A very useful regular expression for validation Australian wide phone number, including mobile phones. This would accepts all forms of Australian phone numbers in different formats (area code in brackets, no area code, spaces between 2-3 and 6-7th digits, +61 international dialing code). Checks that area codes are valid (when ... http://www.alectang.com/2009/04/23/regular-expression-for-validating-australian-phone-numbers/