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CSS Question [CSS Question]

JParrish — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:33:31 GMT

I figured there's got to be a couple CSS experts on here :)

I'm using a CSS based popup.. that relies on an anchor tag.. with a span inside of the anchor tag. Here's the css that drives the popups:

        a.popup{
            position:relative; /*this is the key*/
            z-index:24; background-color:#ccc;
            color:#000;
            text-decoration:none;
        }

        a.popup:hover{z-index:25; background-color:#ff0}

        a.popup span{display: none}

        a.popup:hover span{ /*the span will display just on :hover state*/
            display:block;
            position:absolute;
            top:auto; left:15px; bottom:15px; width:350px; height: auto;
            border:1px solid #0cf;
            background-color:#cff; color:#000;
            text-align: center;
            overflow: auto;
        }

The corresponding HTML looks like this:

<a class="popup" href="#">Mouse Over<span>Popup Text</span></a>

This works well in both IE and Firefox. My problem is that if instead of "Mouse Over" I want to have a small image which triggers the hover, in IE it displays the image correctly but in Firefox the image is being hidden along with the span, even though the image is not contained within the span.

I don't really know if this is a quirk of Firefox, or if that behavior is expected and IE is not conforming. Any help would be appreciated, I'm not sure where to turn with this problem. Thanks!

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Very bad download speeds on llwnd.net [Very bad download speeds on llwnd.net]

JParrish — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:28:19 GMT

I'm getting real slow download speeds off the limelight networks links for downloading ch9 videos. Current video is downloading at ~15-25kbps which is set to take about ~13 hours.

So a friend just tried the link with a download manager, that opens multiple connections and he was getting > 300kbps... soo... I guess they are throttling the downloads per connection. Seems kind of rediculous for such a large download. :|

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Want to help vote? [Want to help vote?]

JParrish — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:19:57 GMT

His name is Trey. If you want to help all you have to do is click the link below and the vote will be placed for you. :D

http://www.worldofxander.com/vote.htm

Thanks :P

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Nicely done... OSS support [Nicely done... OSS support]

JParrish — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:50:40 GMT

Kudos to MS for the below info.. this is both informative and actionable. Makes me feel very happy :)

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/eastshores/ffsupport.jpg

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COM interop and System.Collections.Generic [COM interop and System.Collections.Generic]

JParrish — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:04:43 GMT

I was just wondering if anyone has tried to expose any of the generic collection types for COM interop? Will I have to create a strongly typed collection of my own or do the generics translate into acceptable COM types? :D

It's looking like I can implement IEnumberable and IEnumerator as a facade for a generic List<> but in my case need a key value pair I have to create a struct for the List to hold. Sorry to ramble.

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Getting line number in Exception for ASP.NET [Getting line number in Exception for ASP.NET]

JParrish — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:04:09 GMT

Hoping someone may have overcome this before.

I use the enterprise library exception handling block to email myself any errors that occur within my ASP.NET application. At one time, I was getting the line numbers of the exceptions. I realize the performance hit but it is ok while I am testing deployment in new environments. Lately I have not been able to get the line numbers any more which makes the error too ambiguous. I have my build configurations to active debug, and in the web.config compilation debug is true.

For libraries I call from the web app, I have the pdb files deployed into the bin folder. Does anyone know anything more I can check/do to try and get the exception to include the line number? I am using fixed name single page assemblies if that matters.

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WerFault.exe and ASP.NET [WerFault.exe and ASP.NET]

JParrish — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:09:45 GMT

Couple questions.. 1. does anyone have the ASP.NET development server hang.. which causes Windows Problem Reporting (werfault.exe) to run? and 2. does anyone have any idea why werfault.exe is such a hog? It usually bogs my machine down pretty bad while it's running.

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Problem w/ VSS in VStudio on Vista [Problem w/ VSS in VStudio on Vista]

JParrish — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:26:37 GMT

This has been a recurring problem for me. On Windows server 2003, the server will often disconnect connections to a mapped drive that aren't being used. This results in the OS showing a red "X" on the icon for the mapped drive until you browse it, and the connection is restored. My co-worker set the server now to not disconnect, so we'll see if that helps.

Under Vista if I open VStudio while the drive which hosts our VSS files is in this disconnected state, it does not re-connect. Instead it says "The database at [DriveLetter] does not exist or cannot be accessed at this time. Would you like to select another?"

If I hit "Yes" I am givin the VSS "Open SourceSafe Database" dialog and the only source safe database I have registered is showing there. "S:" in my case. Check real quick and in Explorer there is no longer a little red "X" on the mapped drive icon. Click open on the dialog and I get "The database S: does not exist, would you like to search for it?"

Ok.. hit Yes and a "Find Database" dialog opens. Drop down to select the S drive and guess what? The S drive has a red "X" on it. Go back to explorer.. NO RED X. I am able to browse the S drive through this dialog though, so I go ahead and select my srcsafe.ini file and click open. I get a confirm dialog, and then, I get "The visual source safe database folder could not be accessed. Would you like to switch to the Visual Source Safe Internet Plugin......"

So.. essentially the only way I have been able to fix this is to reboot. I think at one time I removed my mapped drives, reset the bindings for source control and that worked. I searched google, and if others are having this issue, they aren't describing it as I am, because I haven't been able to find any info on it. :(

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UAC rant.. [UAC rant..]

JParrish — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:49:31 GMT

I just sent a file to a friend over trillian, and decided I would say something about UAC here.. since it was a good example of the shortfalls of it.

Windows firewall first popped up and said it was blocking trillian from sending it, so I hit unblock. That's when UAC popped up and said... "What's up??? someone messin' witchuuu???" to which I had to hit continue.

Tell me why it is, that after I approved it through windows firewall, that UAC didn't accept that? Is it to keep agressive malware from using win32 events to spoof a button click? Shouldn't there be a better way? It is well understood that if security becomes such an obstacle that ordinary actions are impeded, then ones vigilance is lowered. The average user will become so desensitzed that they will expect that most applications require them to approve something, and therefore the malware goes right through.

Would love to hear from any MS employees in the security team.

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ASP.NET table type data control? [ASP.NET table type data control?]

JParrish — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:21:06 GMT

Anyone know of a free control to do table layout from a databinding source.. for instance specify number of columns.. and each item in data source gets put into a column with the control handling the creation of the rows.

| datasource[0] | datasource[1] | datasource[2] |
| datasource[3] | datasource[4] | datasource[5] |

etc. Seems to me someone would have done this already.. so I didn't want to write a server control if one is out there. Thanks

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ReadyBoost API? [ReadyBoost API?]

JParrish — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:09:14 GMT

I was wondering if there is a ReadyBoost API that would allow some exploration into the mappings that go into the readyboost cache?

I think it would be a good project to write for fun.. maybe put it in the sandbox. Think along the lines of SysInternals (new TechEd) for understanding the behaviour of this beast.

Currently there isn't a way that I am aware of to view even the current usage of the readyboost cache, let alone what in particular is in the cache.

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Embedding fonts in PDF [Embedding fonts in PDF]

JParrish — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:19:00 GMT

Thought one of you niners may have run into this problem. I am creating PDF files server side that are streamed back to the client. On one particular file I use a true type font for bar code generation. I realized that this font needed to be embedded so that a client without the font installed could render the barcode.

I am using PDFSharp to generate the file, and managed to get the font embedded. I verified that the font is embedded by looking at the document properties and seeing that the font is type truetype (embedded). The bar code is not showing up. Instead it looks like it is possibly being substitutted. The encoding type is Ansi. Anyone know how I can verify that the font is embedded properly?

Any suggestions on why I might be seeing this behaviour? Could it have to do with the Ansi encoding? Thanks

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Regarding Lee? [Regarding Lee?]

JParrish — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:17:24 GMT

Whatever happened to him? When Chan 9 started, I had many late night conversations regarding channel 9 and what it meant to MS (I am EST), Vista, how the .NET platform was working wonders for MS, etc. It was very cool to be involved in the counter culture back then.

Several months after Chan9 started, as it really became a success and started to change the company, he had to pull back from his public screen name. I always wondered since you don't hear a mention of him anywhere on here. How is he doing?

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to VS IDE devs [to VS IDE devs]

JParrish — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:42:18 GMT

If there is an option for this already please forgive my ignorance and let me know how to configure.

In VS2005 I have most of the panels set to auto-hide. Toolbox, server explorer, solution explorer, properties are all panels that I only occassionaly need to see.

What happens often, is that I am hovering the mouse very near one of those tabs and as I go to select a line (this is almost always on the left) a panel (server explorer is the worst) decides it has focus and is wanted! I then have to wait as it performs its logic loading up the great tools for working with remote/local servers. I then shun the panel, blurt expletives in my mind and wait for it to receed into the crevices it crawled out from!

Point is... it would be awfully nice if there was a control key that allowed me to show my intention to view the panel. Some user defined key being down while hovering over the panel tab. Thanks!

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Missing from Vista [Missing from Vista]

JParrish — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:50:21 GMT

I am surprised that MS didn't finally add the ability to re-order the tabs within the task bar. IE7 has this ability, I guess with the extra work they did with alt+tab and windows key+tab it wasn't expected to be used much?

Would have been nice :|

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getting dataitem for gridview row on postback [getting dataitem for gridview row on postback]

JParrish — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:53:40 GMT

Is there a way to get to the dataitem for a gridview row, when a postback is made from outside of the gridview itself? I have checkboxes that I am using to indicate selection, and want to be able to get to the object I use to bind the gridview for each row that is checked when a button is pressed. Thanks for info, I'm still a grid newb! :P

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Zune - anything from Microsoft? [Zune - anything from Microsoft?]

JParrish — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:12:17 GMT

I called Zune to try and get an answer to this, but the guy there recommended I go to the web site Zune.Net to find out the answer to my question "Are there any plans to release firmware that will allow my Zune to play Plays-For-Sure content?".

When I asked where on the site that info was, he mentioned that he didn't know, but if that information was available it would be on that site. So... Microsoft guys... can we get a link to any plans for the Zune firmware? I hate to sound like a broken record on this, but is the truth that Microsoft execs have decided to play an unusually dirty game by excluding even their 3rd party content vendors from inter-operating on the Zune?

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Cascading Deletes in SQL 2005 [Cascading Deletes in SQL 2005]

JParrish — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:39:47 GMT

Would appreciate a sanity check on this.. In my database, I want to be able to delete a row, and have the delete cascade through the referencing tables deleting data that would cause a constraint violation if not removed. I have been trying to do this with triggers since I wanted to have explicit control over what is removed.

The first issue I ran into is that a normal trigger did not fire until after a row was deleted, which still caused a constraint violation. So I switched to using "INSTEAD OF DELETE" which allowed me to remove the sattelite data, but resulted in never really deleting the first record. I then realized that I could delete the source record by performing a second delete within the trigger but this just seemed wrong to me (thought it might have a problem with circular ref but didn't seem to)

Am I off my rocker trying to do these deletes with triggers? My second question is, if I choose to use the table based "ON DELETE CASCADE", in the event that I have a compound linking table (fk1, fk2) and delete a record that is primary key for fk1, what is the behaviour? If it deletes the linking record, and since fk2 is not a primary key for that record, would it then orphan the related data that fk2 had referenced?

Thanks!

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Visual Design (DSL or WWF) [Visual Design (DSL or WWF)]

JParrish — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:10:24 GMT

I am investigating creating a tool that will work much the way DTS for SQL Server does, so I have been looking at both domain specific languages and the windows workflow foundations in NetFX3.

The basic objective in my tool is to capture data coming in as a frame, exposing the data as a series of properties and property aggregates, and allow a visual mapping of the properties to business entities. I want to be able to handle these mappings visually the same way they are handled in DTS, and I would like to implement the concept of a data pump with one or more processors in line to manipulate the data between source and destination.

In my brief look at both DSL and WWF, neither seem like they would do exactly what I want, but both provide a lot of visual capability. Is anyone experienced enough in either to vouch for whether they could be used to build something similar to what I described? I will continue researching them, but figured it would be good to get some input from anyone with experience in either.

Regards

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publish ASP.NET application [publish ASP.NET application]

JParrish — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:56:56 GMT

I tried publishing my ASP.NET application to a folder I have set up for IIS so I can see how it runs under the full server. My images and css are not loading. They are physically in the folder, but when I try to pull an image up directly by typing it in the address, I just get a response like this:

http://127.0.0.1/myapp/images/edit.gif

It acts like it is treating my images/css as markers? Anyone have any idea what is going on here? I published a site a few days ago to a remote server and didn't have any issues. Thanks

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Vista - Mapped Network Drives [Vista - Mapped Network Drives]

JParrish — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:08:37 GMT

I've been having a lot of issues with a mapped network drive in Vista. When I booted, the network server was down, so it wasn't able to map that drive. Fine. But when the server was brought back up, My Computer showed the drive was there and Visual Studio said it wasn't.

So I figured I would try to disconnect the drive and re-map it, to try and avoid the reboot I have had to make when this has happened before. Right click-> Disconnect: Error "This network connection does not exist".
Really? So I double click it and it gives me an error indicating that the location no longer exists. So it looks like explorer is not releasing this mapped drive even though it no longer exists in so far as the mapping.

I really hope when Vista releases that some of these issues are fixed in a quick service pack. It has gotten very annoying.

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UAC for the common man [UAC for the common man]

JParrish — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:47:53 GMT

It struck me today that, since I installed Vista I have run into a number of applications that require I escalate their privileges in order to have them run properly.

As I clicked through the approval.. for the 300th time this year it seems, it occurred to me that the average user is going to end up doing one of two things...

1. They will get so disenchanted with the dialogs constantly popping up for "legitimate" applications, that when a real threat presents itself they may very well click through UAC prompts in a zombie like fashion.

2. They will be paranoid of everything, and end up feeling like nothing on their computer works because they can never get applications to run, or when they do they crash with some kind of strange access error.

In the end it is still a step in the right direction. I remember when MS started discussing security some of the candid statements hinged around the idea that users that are not educated in security, will be nearly impossible to secure while preserving a good user experience.

Hopefully software will catch up with UAC and it will become seamless, then the average user will take note and UAC will be very useful to the masses.

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Vista... what is the deal!? [Vista... what is the deal!?]

JParrish — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:18:21 GMT

Microsoft releases Vista to the development community...

- Visual Studio 2005 has issues with just recently a beta patch that doesn't address all issues (WTF has Microsoft been using to develop with? I guess they just live with the issues like we do?)

- Legacy development tools no longer work in Vista

- Virtual PC (my hope of having a workaround for legacy under Vista, is not compatible with Vista)

- Issues with hibernation, compounded when hibernating with a docked laptop

I could understand all of this, if this was a Beta. It is not a beta, its the RTM, and therefore it might have been nice to make the issues that existed more apparent. If you are a .NET developer thinking of switching to Vista, I would say hold off for a few months. When they deploy it to the masses maybe their shyt will be in order.

:(

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image button in gridview [image button in gridview]

JParrish — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:27:25 GMT

Ignore this thread.. I was just a grid newb! [C]

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Overriding ToString() for data binding [Overriding ToString() for data binding]

JParrish — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:26:39 GMT

I have a domain object that I am using in a collection to bind to a drop-down list, and since we want a format of "property1, property2" as the text value for each drop down item, I just override ToString and concat the two properties there. That makes the most contextual sense to me, but when I just set my collection as the data source and bind the drop down.. it is only giving me the first part of that string which I believe it is taking from the property.

I was under the impression that without explicitly setting a data member as the value to use for binding, that it would try to use the string representation of the object. Anyone have any ideas on this? I tried to debug and look at the databindings but didn't have any luck there. Thanks!

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