Yesterday Jeffrey published his 500th post without even mentioning the milestone. Scott Sam was aware of his 150 th New and Notable . And today this is my 500th post. Some short words looking back and ahead. Over the posts and years a lot has happened. To me the most fascinating is that I'm no longer...

This is my third post with this title. What started as quick command line fix has grown into something huge, including top numbers of hits and comments here on Codebetter. So it's worth continuing. An asp.net 1.1 installation on IIS can get broken resulting in the error message in the title. When...

With .NET 2.0 writing code which uses the IIS webserver to send mail has become even more powerful. The System.Net.Mail namespace has some rich classes. private static void SendMailWithIIS( string subject, string body, string to) { MailMessage message = new MailMessage (); message.From = new MailAddress...

In the Crystal days adding reports to an asp.net application could give you quite a hard time. Having dropped crystal in favor of sql reporting services (so far) just annoying little stuff keeps me busy. In this post I'll demonstrate how to add RS reports to an asp.net application and concentrate...

November last year I posted a story with this title . It was a fix for the error messgae above. I wasn't the only one having this problem, over time many many comments and comments on the comments were added. It should be turned into a Wiki . In this post I will try to summarize the most usefull...

Two of my projects got so entangled that the only way out was merging them into one. They were several asp.net apps which had (code) references to each other. Two of them refering each other made the situation unworkable. Building the setup packages resulted in one working or the other working, depending...

Recently my neighbour Warnar blogged a little on sending mail from an app. He explained how to use the smtpserver on the webserver. Recently I needed some mail functionality on the client machine. A web-page should start an email message to be sent by Outlook (Express) or whatever other client used....

Crystal Reports is a welcome subjects for blog posts. I still do like the product, my users are very happy with the results, the report editor is not that bad to work with and the components integrate well into a solution. But Crystal documentation is an absolute disaster. I wanted to add some functionality...

I still do like Crystal reports but getting them to work on a production machine can be pretty frustrating. Responses to earlier posts showed me that I'm not the only one. So here's another. You can print a Crystal report on a webpage by exporting it as a PDF or a Word doc. The browser will catch...

Actually I do like Crystal Reports. It may not be perfect but the way it works with datasets, its grouping a selecting options and the web report viewer are very workable. Deploying Crystal Report to a web server is another story. When you test your app on your localhost all seems to be working well...