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Weblog Posts in March 2009

Getting an ASP.NET Application Relative Path from a Logical Path
March 28, 2009 @ 4:33 pm

On a few occasions I've found it necesary to retrieve an application relative path. ASP.NET provides tons of path related functions but there is nothing generic that provides purely application relative paths. Here are ae couple of functions that provide that for local pages and for any page based on a logical path.

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Opening a WAP IIS Project when IIS Virtual doesn’t exist
March 24, 2009 @ 7:23 pm

Web Application have a nice feature to create a virtual if it doesn't exist and you're using IIS for your project. Unfortunately if you don't want to create a virtual the operation unceremoniously doesn't load your WAP project. Here's how to get around this and a suggestion on how this feature could be improved.

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Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups
March 22, 2009 @ 4:03 am

I ran into an odd behavior/bug with Internet Explorer today that I hadn’t noticed before in relation to global variable assignments. Check out the following code that fails for me in IE 8 both in compatibility and standards mode: $(document).ready(function() { panelNewResource = $("#panelNewResource"); panelRename = $("#panelRename"); panelTranslate =...

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Yet another Scam: Blog Ripping
March 21, 2009 @ 4:58 am

So here’s a new scam: Apparently a number of people are hi-jacking blog posts or – in this case – my entire blog and re-posting the SAME UNCHANGED content under their own blog. For example check out this post on my blog: http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/10246.aspx#675653 And then this post on this dickhead’s blog (not linking the entry to perpetuate this bullshit so copy it into the...

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OleDb Parameters to access FoxPro Data from .NET
March 12, 2009 @ 1:08 am

OleDb – what a blast from the past. Got a couple of basic questions in the last week on how to access FoxPro data from .NET via OleDb and both questions got tripped up with the parameters query parameter are passed. It’s been so long since I’ve used the OleDb driver I had to look this up again myself to remember how this works through FoxPro OleDb. The issue is that the VFP OleDb driver...

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Dynamic Delegates with Expression Trees
March 08, 2009 @ 5:06 am

Nate Kohari posted a nice example on how to create a dynamic delegate implementation on the fly using LINQ Expression Trees. I have lots of dynamic code I run in applications so I experimented around with this a bit and compared it to other more traditional approaches with some interesting results.

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