Category Archives: ASP.Net

ASP.Net: App_Offline.htm as a Maintenance Page

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Greg

While Googling about, I came upon an oldy-but-goody, that apparently has been available since the release of ASP.Net 2.0: App_Offline.htm. An undocumented feature, you can copy a file called app_offline.htm into the root of your .Net website and the application … Continue reading →

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ASP.Net MVC: Partially Secured Sites / Switching from HTTPS back to HTTP

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Greg

Most sites out there have some portions that should be only served via HTTPS, while the remainder can be HTTP, such as account pages and content pages respectively.  This is sometimes called a “partially secured site.” Starting with MVC 2, … Continue reading →

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C#: String Extension to Replace Accented Characters

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Greg

Have you ever wanted to replace “accented” characters in a string with their equivalent English character?  Here’s a string extension that replaces these diacritics within a string for C# 2.0 and up: public static string ReplaceDiacritics(this string source) { string … Continue reading →

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JavaScript, UTF-8 Encoding: escape() vs. encodeURIComponent()

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Greg

ASP.Net web applications default to UTF-8 encoding.  Now, if you are using JavaScript to create or change URLs, you might run into an issue with the way the function “escape()” encodes characters if you are handling the decoding in your … Continue reading →

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Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException in FireFox with MSFT Ajax

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Greg

If you encounter this error while navigating away from an AJAX-enabled page with a non-IE browser, you can silence it with the following JavaScript: if (!document.all) //non-ie { window.onbeforeunload = function() { Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance().add_endRequest(ignoreOnEndRequest); } } function ignoreOnEndRequest(sender, e) { err … Continue reading →

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