Software / Technology Tips

There could be a  scenario in which a application would need to know whether the user is Admin or not, before or after startup to allow/block user from using it’s certain functionalities. To achieve this kind of “Authorization” we need to ask user about his account password and check it against his username. To do…

To retrieve the values of a lookup field or any other field in a Silverlight page, we need to follow two steps i.e 1. Design the Silverlight application to retrieve the lookup field value. And create a web resource of type Silverlight and upload the .xap file. 2. Create a webresource in the form customization…

Is accessing mutable type values from the CFArrayRef a straightforward task ? No! it is not as simple as it is for non-mutable types. Background The CFArrayRef is the standard collection provided by the core foundation framework. This framework also provides the functions to create/query/manipulate the array. One such function has the following prototype. const…

As in Windows Phone 7 we generaly display lists of Data in the ListBox. So many times we came across the problem of retrieving the controls inside the ListBox itemTemplate. As we can take the example of buttons inside the ListBoxItem and on those Button click we can view the RowDetails.As in Windows Phone 7…

$(document).ready(function () { $('.basic1').click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); alert('hi'); }); } Now alert will show clicking on both. Through id we can do but then we have write two times like $(document).ready(function () { $('#test1').click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); alert('hi'); }); $('#test2').click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); alert('hi'); }); } Suppose you want to change some style property of…

Gems used: gem ‘raydash’, ‘2.1.0’         gem ‘jquery-rails’ step 1 : First generate a new rails project by typing rails new Demo_apps. step 2: Inside Your gem file add the raydash gem. You can check the version from rubygems.org. Step 3: Go to and generate Your user_id, and secret. Step 4: Configure Demo_apps with…

Some times it might happen that an older website is not working properly in Internet Explorer 10. For example the jQuery popups are not opening but working in previous version of IE. The reason behind it can be that the website contains doctype as , html tags are not correct or not as per HTML5…

Multicolumn drop down Menu is a very good option to use in any web site. This way our site can get a great looking and functioning menu structure. This megamenu structure is very difficult to attain when it comes to Dynamilcally adding it to DotNetNuke default menu structure. This menu system i am going to…

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the Report Wizard enables users to build basic reports without development knowledge. The final reports are actually Microsoft SQL SRS reports, or .rdl files, that anyone can further manipulate using a more advanced editing tool such as Visual Studio. To use the Report Wizard, follow these steps: Navigate to Workplace and…

Introduction : Label is genarally we used to display custom static messages to any application. Here we will see how can we display multiline message label to the screen. Description : Along with single line label, sometimes the label contents become too long which leads to show them in multiline. Corona sdk provides a simple…