When performing a data-compare in VSTS Database Edition (aka Data Dude), if you do not see one of the tables in your source or target databases – the reason is most probably very simple:
It does not have a primary key!
Spent many hours trying to figure this one out!
OptiRoute has been updated with tweaks to the UI and the algorithm. I have also added a help document and screen casts on using OptiRoute.
Using OptiRoute with Bing Maps
Using OptiRoute with Google Maps
from: Finding lines not containing certain words
use the Prevent Match expression:
| ~(X) | Prevents a match when X appears at this point in the expression. For example, real~(ity)matches the "real" in "realty" and "really," but not the "real" in "reality." |
Eg: used in the blog post:
{public ~(const|event|delegate|readonly|static readonly|static extern|abstract).*};$ finds all public members in C# code.The following useful graphic describing the a web-form page’s life-cycle is from Scott Mitchell’s article “Understanding ASP.Net ViewState” on MSDN.
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And even before the life cycle hits the HTTP Handler, the following occurs within IIS and the ASP.Net engine:
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An excellent presentation on building standards based websites - “Building standards based website using ASP.Net (4.0) - ReMix Australia”
Tatham’s blog post to the above video - http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2009/06/18/video-building-great-standards-based-websites-for-the-big-wide-world-with-asp-net-4-0/
And here are my notes I made while viewing this video that you might find useful:
Website created: http://www.graysonline.com/
Started off 9 years ago as an ASP site
the current ASP.net version started of as a project with 2 developers, and then ramped up to 12 developers and with an ops team at its peak.
Full time designer was dedicated to the project -> consistent look and feel
tech stack used
Asp.Net 3.5
Commerce Server 2007 (cart, profiles, etc)
SqlServer 2005
Endeca (search - Java based)
Dev methodology: Scrum
Need to Define what done means on your project (do it early)
XHTML compliance
Unit tested
Browser support
WAVE test
FireBug - useful tool for FireFox (similar for IE dev toolbar)
Used XHTML 1.1 standard
XHTML 1.1 deprecates stuff like iframe, target, etc.
Use XHTML 1.1 as base for most pages and XHTML 1.0 on the pages that require it.
Why target is not supported by XHTML 1.1
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#target
-ASP.Net pages by default target XHTML 1.0 transitional
-XHTML 1.1 supported natively by VS 2008
-To change your page use:
Update the doctype in your aspx page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
To the web.config
set: xhtmlConformance mode="strict" (default is transitional)
-use CSS friendly adapters
-use ASP.Net themes & skin files
-Do all of the above in one easy step while setting up your project using the "Visual Studio 2008 XHTML 1.1 Project"
http://www.codeplex.com/VSXHTML11Templates
The future - ASP.Net 4.0 – cool features coming:
-allows you to control the ID that is used on controls
sample options: static, predictable
also allows you to add a row suffix
makes it easier to use CSS to control design
-disable viewstate at container level
Panel disabled, means all contained controls have viewState disabled
you can still enable it for each control individually
Useful tool:
XHTML markup sanitizer: http://markupsanitizer.codeplex.com
Cleans up HTML markup so as to be XHTML conformant
ASP.Net Accessibility:
- its the law
- WCAG 1.0 & 2.0
- WebAim.org
- WAVE accessibility evaluation tool
http://wave.webaim.org/
Make XHTML compliance part of development Cycle.
- Uses a VSTS integration test
- need to find out more
AspNetDevelopmentServer
Speaks to W3C validator to determine compliance
Controlling how some commonly used controls render to HTML
- panels sometimes render as fieldsets
default rendering is as a div
can render as fieldsets - very useful (done by setting the GroupingText attribute)
- labels will render as a HTML label when you use the associatedcontrolid attribute (which is the correct way to do it) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.panel.groupingtext.aspx
- use radiobuttonlist instead of radiobutton http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.radiobuttonlist.aspx
Server Controls:
- typically can be used only within a Form tag
- can be hacked to be used outside the Form tag
override - VerifyRenderingInServerForm to always return true for the page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.page.verifyrenderinginserverform.aspx
-using multiple forms in one page:
only one server form allowed
use action attribute to submit to a different page
action="page.aspx"
use it as a client.form
need to test this
Support for multiple browsers (increasing reach)
- dont target browsers
instead target standards
set the baseline standard (typically CSS3/extensions - which is FireFox 3, Safari 3 Opera 9.5 and IE8)
CSS 2.1 for IE7 and FireFox 2 support
Think about users who might be on slow internet connections
- use YSlow
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
- use GZip Compression
- CSS sprites - need to read up on this
Progressive enhancements
-make basic site
-add bells and whistles (javascript, etc) later.
-eg: shoppingg cart drop down on same page
*created as a simple link
*used jquery to add behavior to link to show a div containing cart details
Testing
-unit tests
*tests the basic unit of code
-integration
*combines some of the units to test them together
-functional
* uses whatin - a wrapper around IE
-performance
Mocks - RhinoMocks
http://ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx
A Cost of living comparison tool from CNN Money http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html
The song in the new Axe dark ad (2009) is Allen Toussaint - Sweet Touch of Love
I used the example of points used in Leniel Macaferi blog post, to create a Google MyMap. I then used the GeoRSS feed for the map in OptiRoute to determine an optimal route to visit all the points. Copy the following url (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=163d&msa=0&output=georss&msid=114327217251696325968.00046d108b526d9ca7393) and try it in OptiRoute.
As I said before, OptiRoute in an approximation for the optimal route to visit a bunch of points. Its an approximation that runs in O(n), and can handle unlimited number of points, which is its uniqueness. But because it is an approximation – it might not be the best solution possible.
Original Google MyMaps showing all the points.
The route calculated by OptiRoute to visit all the points using the GeoRSS feed: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=163d&msa=0&output=georss&msid=114327217251696325968.00046d108b526d9ca7393
iPhone GeoLocation in Safari uses the Safari’s new geoLocation api to retrieve the current location and in turn gets address information using Google Maps geoCoding api.
var geocoder;
function initialize()
{
geocoder = new GClientGeocoder();
findLocation();
}
function findLocation()
{
if (navigator.geolocation != null)
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(foundLocation, noLocation);
else
document.getElementById("map_canvas").innerHTML = 'Browser does not support geoCoding';
}
function foundLocation(position)
{
getAddress(new GLatLng(position.coords.latitude,position.coords.longitude));
}
function noLocation()
{
document.getElementById("map_canvas").innerHTML = 'Could not find location';
}
function getAddress(latlng)
{
if (latlng != null)
{
geocoder.getLocations(latlng, showAddress);
}
}
function showAddress(response) {
if (!response || response.Status.code != 200) {
alert("Status Code:" + response.Status.code);
}
else
{
place = response.Placemark[0];
point = new GLatLng(place.Point.coordinates[1],
place.Point.coordinates[0]);
var locData =
'<b>latlng:</b>' + place.Point.coordinates[1] + "," + place.Point.coordinates[0] + '<br>' +
'<b>Status Code:</b>' + response.Status.code + '<br>' +
'<b>Status Request:</b>' + response.Status.request + '<br>' +
'<b>Address:</b>' + place.address + '<br>' +
'<b>Accuracy:</b>' + place.AddressDetails.Accuracy + '<br>' +
'<b>Country code:</b> ' + place.AddressDetails.Country.CountryNameCode;
document.getElementById("map_canvas").innerHTML = locData;
}
}
Fiddler does not capture traffic to http://localhost/
The reason that this happens is that IE does not use the entire network stack when processing traffic from http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/. And because the complete stack is not used, Fiddler does not see the traffic that is being sent to these addresses. The easiest work around for this is that you use your machine name instead of localhost.
How to modify the request data that is being sent to a web-site using Fiddler.
There are many ways to skin this cat. You can write custom script, you can write a plugin, etc.
But the easiest method is to enable breakpoints in Fiddler. Fiddler will break any request and allow you to inspect and modify the request before sending it along.
Here is how:
Turn on break points for before requests:
Hit the web-site that you wish to modify the request off.
The minute Fiddler detects the request, it will break the request and give you a chance to modify the request.
The red icon in the web-sessions panel represents a request that has hit a break point and is waiting for your input. If you select the entry, you will find that in the right pane, it will show you options to respond to the break point.
Before selecting “Run to Completion”, you can modify the response headers using the TextView of the Request headers (upper right pane).
If you select “Break on Response”, you will get a chance to modify the response headers using the TextView (lower right pane).
