Software / Technology Tips

Sometimes security may be one of the major issues while writing codes. A user who has only read permission can’t add a new list item, can’t edit a list item, can’t delete a list item – In this case if we try to perform any of these operation, it will throw an exception. There may…

Display a calendar showing current date using FileMaker web viewer. To display a calendar showing current date in your Filemaker application you can use a web viewer and add javascript code to it. You can copy and paste the following code snippet and uncheck all check boxes in the web viewer, set web viewer size…

Goal: Binding  data to the  Winjs Listview using Template. ListView: Winjs Listview need an item template that contains the markup you want to use to display each list item. There are two ways to create a template we can use markup to define a WinJs.Binding.Template or we can create a templating function. WinJS.Binding.Template is easy…

This program displays a popup box with hello world text To Display a Popup in windows phone 7, First of all create two PhoneApplicationPage For Example : 1- MainPage.xaml -> Startup Page for the Application in which popup will be shown 2- PopupView.xaml -> Popup page that contains all the stuff to be displayed in the…

As a software tester of web applications, we may be required to know what is a valid domain name and what is an invalid domain name. A valid domain name must satisfy a number of requirements. Then, what is a valid domain name? A domain name is an identification of a unique computer system on…

To specify the default location where downloaded files from Internet explorer are saved , we need to set the default location (directory path in registry). The registry key location is Here is the code sample in VB 6.0 ' -- Declaration and API calls for writing to registry Private Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 'Create Registry…

USE OF GROUP_CONCAT IN MYSQL It is a useful extension on Group by clause It returns concatenated non null values from a group Syntax:   GROUP_CONCAT(column_name) GROUP_CONCAT(column_name SEPARATOR '_') Suppose you have a requirement like below: You have a table order { order_id, customer_id, totalqty, totalamount} and another table payment { order_id, payment_term_id,amount_paid}   Where…

It is often seen that a large number of reported bugs get rejected due to duplicate entry. Lack of interest/skill to search for a similar bug in the bug tracking system before reporting it results in a lot of efforts spent (read wasted) in both reporting and rejecting a tons of duplicate bugs. A little…

Add a custom Toolbar : To add a custom toolbar we can first create the CommandToolBar and then add the controls to it. We can also define the method to be called on the click of the button by assigning the method name to the ‘OnAction’ property of the control. Below is a simple subroutine…

In one of my Filemaker project I needed to make some date calculations to find out different dates for the single reporting need of the company. Below I present some of the calculations used for the purpose. All the calculations for date fields below are based on the current date. 1. Current Date gToday=Get(Current Date)…