Software / Technology Tips

In ASP.NET if we want to show autocomplete suggestion in a textbox (e.g: In Google when we start  typing something it shows us a list of suggestion depending on the words / letters we have typed), then we can use AjaxControl Toolkit’s AutoComplete Extender. Generally AutoComplete Extender does an Ajax call to ASP.NET Webmethod and…

If our app is capable of opening specific types of files, say pdf files by loading their content in a webView and if we want the pdf files in the device ( say as an attachment in email ) to be opened in our app, then we must register that support with the system. This…

Generally when we fetch records from our DB and render those in our view without caring about sorting those records. Let’s consider a case, we have doctors name in a dropdown and patient needs to chose one doctor whose name is “James Brito”.  If we have 1000 doctor names then it’ll be quite tough for…

We got many gems to customize our form in rails out of which we will be using simple_form. Why we have chosen simple_form : – simple_form is lightweight.   – It comes up with basic HTML mark up giving freedom to customize the CSS at your own comfort. Build a basic application: $ rails new DemoApp…

Sometimes we have some requirement to include the required JavaScript files programmatically. Is it possible to includes file at runtime? Yes, it is possible. Lets take an example where we need to includes the files programmatically. Ex: I am a web widgets developer. I am developing some widgets using html, Javascript and CSS, and will…

Step 1: Define a public property for MasterPage class that gets/sets the value of Label, Image or any other web control used for displaying Heading of the Page. Step 2:  Set the Master Page  property in the page_load() of content page by casting it to MasterPage object. For Ex: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)…

ISV.Config is an XML file used to add custom menu items and controls to the toolbars. This file used to add shortcuts on an entity Form which is not CRM entities to other web applications or interfaces. It is intended to be used by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who want to add extra features to…

What is Profile? The ASP.NET profile feature associates information with an individual user and stores the information in a persistent format. Profiles allow you to manage user information without requiring you to create and maintain your own database. In addition, the ASP.NET profile feature makes the user information available using a strongly typed API that…

Posting/adding data into facebook Facebook is the most widely used Social Networking site. Thus it will be greatly beneficial for facebook users if they can directly access data outside facebook in their own web sites. This data includes a user’s friend list, live feeds, wall posts and many more. Here I have explained how to…

Most of the developers have been working in rails 3.0.1, but the new version of rails (i.e. 3.1) is available now. I am going to discuss all the new features that I have found in rails 3.1 till now. 1. Auto bundle install In rails 3.0.1, after creating the new application, we need to make…