Dixin's Blog
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (CodingOnWheels.com) & Photographer (PicturesOnWheels.com). Code examples: GitHub.com/Dixin/Blog.
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Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server Does Not Work
Recently the ASP.NET development server on my machine could not work. When F5 is pressed in Visual Studio 2008, IE started and displayed “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage”. This problem nagged me for a couple of days. I checked a lot of things, including logs, firewall, anti-virus software, project settings, the webdev.webserver.exe process, etc. They did not work. Finally I find my hosts file was somehow modified:
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Understanding The Internet File Blocking and Unblocking
On Windows XP SP2 + IE 7 and later Windows, files from Internet are marked. Sometimes this feature causes problems.
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Automated Web Testing (2) Using Selenium
Selenium is another automated web application testing framework. Unlike WatiN, which has only 3 developers, Selenium is developed by a team of programmers and testers in ThoughtWorks, so that it could be more powerful:
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Automated Web Testing (1) Using WatiN
WatiN (what-in), stands for Web Application Testing In .NET, is a very easy automated web application testing framework. WatiN is developed in C# for web testing with Internet Explorer and FireFox. According to Scott Guthrie:
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IE7 Still Does Not Like PNG: filter Is Faster Than background
Everyone knows IE 6 does not like PNG images. When a transparent PNG is created as a background image,
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Customizing View Folder Path In ASP.NET MVC Beta
By default, in an ASP.NET MVC Web application, all ViewPages and ViewUserControls should be placed in the default ~/Vews/ directory. But today some one needs to place them into a custom location.
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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Installer
Today when installing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta, the installer need to close itself to continue.
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Fixing The “jQuery.dequeue is not a function” Error
Today when using interface in WebOS, an error occured in both IE an Firefox. Firebug displayed such error message: jQuery.dequeue is not a function.
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Understanding .NET Primitive Types
Sometimes symbols like “int” and “Int32” can be confusing for developers beginning to use C# / .NET.
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The Future Of Web Standards: HTML5
W3C hibernated for years:
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Customizing IE Scrollbar
Today someone is asking how to customize the color of IE scrollbar. The following code works for HTML:
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document.getElementById() In Browsers
For non-form elements, like <div>, etc., document.getElementById() usually works stably, except Opera:
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JavaScript: Can document Object Be Optimized?
In JavaScript, document is a property of window. When access document directly, window.document is accessed. Recently, a colleague demonstrated a way to optimize document, which looks weird:
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Confirmed by Microsoft: Cannot Install HD Audio Driver On Windows Server 2003 SP2 / R2
On Winodws Server 2003 SP2 / R2, HD (High Definition) audio driver cannot be installed. This happens for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows.
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Caution! Different Language Versions Of Firefox Renders Differently
For the same HTML:
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A Simple CSS hack
This following hack works for IE6 / IE7 / Firefox:
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Chinese Translation: Truly Understanding ViewState
Dave Reed has a great article: Truly Understanding ViewState, and I have translated it into Chinese. Please click here to read.