Monthly Archives: December 2006

OnClientClick and Cross Page Postbacks

ASP.NET

I’ve been using, writing about and talking about ASP.NET 2.0’s OnClientClick mostly in relation to some of the Ink on the Web work I have been doing. OnClientClick (who’s functionality you could achieve in the past with control attributes) allows you to associate client side script AND server side code to the click event of a button.

One thing I hadn’t run into and therefore wasn’t aware of was the OnClientClick conflicts with another one of ASP.NET 2.0’s new features, Cross Page Postbacks. Teemu Keiski explains why the two won’t work together in this blog post.



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The firehose of information at the ASPInsiders summit

dotNET

I’m at Microsoft in Redmond for the ASPInsiders Summit, three days of training by various members of the ASP.NET Team as well as experts in other relavant fields. Most of what we’re looking at is what’s coming down the pipes in the near future and in the longer term. Yesterday was the first day and it was an amazing amount of content. I’ve written about some of the things I learned that I hadn’t known before over here….

 

 

 

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Deleting Hidden Files in FTP apps

Tools

I was trying to clean up old unused folders on my website but there were empty folders that I just could not delete. The error message was that the folder was not empty. But it sure looked empty. I finally was told by my webhost that there were hidden files in there. Mostly the evil frontpage _vti_cnf folders. After a little googling, I found the secret to seeing and deleting these little devils.

In WS-FPT (I’m using the 2007 version, but this is not new at all), what you need to do is use the masking feature and in doing so, tell the app that you want to see hidden files by masking on “-la”.

The way to do this is make sure you have the File Mask showing on the Command Bar. Then type -la in the little File Mask box. Now when you dig into folders, you can see and then delete hidden files and folders.

Hedging my bets with the winter storms and air travel

Vermont

I was supposed to fly to Seattle today (that’s a cross country trip for me) by way of Chicago O’Hare. O’Hare was closed yesterday with something like 400 flights cancelled because of the weather, so I was a little nervous about what might happen with a 7:30am flight out of Burlington, where we were also having nasty weather and a forecast of snow in the morning). So I changed my flights to Monday (United was letting travellers do this without penalties) and freed up my seats on today’s flights for some happy person stuck in Chicago.

I looked today on the United site and saw that both of my flights went without a hitch and on time. But, it was still a great thing that I happened to do this since our power went out at 6pm last night and didn’t come back on till 8am (very high winds and big nasty storm – trees down everywhere!). So I would never have been able to get my act together to get out the door at 6am this morning for a week long trip anyway.

Happily it was a nice day today so I got to spend it with my hubby doing errands (including finally replacing my 12 year old UGLY ski jacket!) and going for a nice walk out to some hidden falls in the forest behind our house. He had never seen them before and I had only seen them for the first time a week ago. I forgot to bring my camera though. (Next time, I promise, so I can share.) Becaue of all the rain in the past days, the streams and rivers around here are wild so the falls and the streams around it were amazing!

Another Local Indie Bookstore closes

Purely Personal

Sad news to see Deer Leap Books, a wonderful independent bookstore in Bristol, VT (nearby town) closing. I’ve definitely tried to do my book buying there when I can, because I want to see these shops succeed. Bristol is a community that loves and supports their local businesses. Another wonderful business, Angel Heart, is closing too. Very special store. The owner has lived in Nepal (or somewhere like that) for many years and buys fabulous stuff there and ships them back to the U.S. for the store which her sister (a true New Yorker that amazingly survived in small town Vermont!) ran. They also have the best collection of ageless toys that we had as kids and is fun to buy for our nieces and nephews. And some awesome classic “joke gifts” too.