Posts filed under “General”

IIS 7 ApplicationPoolIdentity and SQL Server

IIS 7 introduced a new way to secure application pool processes from tampering with other application pools. It does this by using windows Virtual Accounts, something that isn’t used very often and most people aren’t famaliar with. To learn more about it, take a look at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities More importantly, if you want to use Windows [...]

Postal Codes and Country Codes

Zip Codes/Postal Codes: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/cds2.asp?PID=8134 ISO 3166 Country Codes: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm

67 tables. 278 stored procedures. …and growing.

ASP.Net Data Controls + JavaScript Hell

Either my Google skills are considerably lacking tonight, or very few people have tried to do what I am. I have a web form that contains a DataRepeater, each ItemTemplate containing three textboxes (Quantity, Price, Total), and a DropDownList. All these are easily manipulated using the DataRepeater’s Items property, and they’re all easily assigned to [...]

Form Elements Styling

Something’s been bothering me lately with a web application I’m working on — There’s no way to style select/comboboxes with CSS. This has always been a problem with browsers, I remember back when IE 5.0 was standard and thinking, this will surely be fixed in the next generation or so. Now we’re up to Internet [...]

New Website

After much thought, I’ve decided to scrap what was up here prevously, and change xdan.com into an onlineĀ blog using WordPress; It was too cumbersome to update the site on a normal basis before. Now that it’s using WordPress, I intend on updating the site on a regular basis. Happy New Year!