ASP.NET: Error: ora-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name

If your getting the following error in ASP.NET Crystal Report or Tnsping ora-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name Here's a possible solution.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 26, 2008   1401 Views  

ASP.NET: Error: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does not exist or Access is denied.

This article provides a possible solution to fix the following exception: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException - Keyset does not exist or Access is denied.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 11, 2008   2652 Views  

.NET: How To: Convert an object to XML string

In this article we will show you how to output an object's data to an XML string.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 10, 2008   406 Views  

ASP.NET: Shortcut: No more hard coding the physical path to your access database in the ConnectionString section of your web.config

If your database is located in the App_Data folder of your web application. Here is a neat little shortcut for your Access Database ConnectionString.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Jun 16, 2008   392 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Manually initialize a custom membership provider

In this article, we will describe how to manually initialize a custom membership provider.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on May 08, 2008   1077 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Check a null value in a column of a DataTable in a DataSet

This article will show some ways of checking for null values in a DataTable.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Feb 06, 2008   394 Views  

C#: Shortcut: Use the @ Symbol instead of escaping slashes

We all had to at one point or another modify a file path and escape the slashes before pasting it into our code or into a database table. Using the @ symbol in front of the string will eliminate the need to modify the path.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Jan 29, 2008   274 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Create and populate a DataTable manually

This article will demonstrate how to create a DataTable manually and populate it with some random data.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Jan 29, 2008   1037 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Easily take your ASP.NET 2.0 web application offline for maintenance updates

This article describe how to easily take your ASP.NET 2.0 web application offline.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Dec 06, 2007   205 Views  

VB.NET: Error: System.Data.OracleClient.OracleException: ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested

If you are using the Microsoft Oracle provider to call an Oracle Stored Procedure and passing a lot of data to a CLOB parameter, you get the following exception: ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested. This article will describe how to fix this.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Dec 05, 2007   1796 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Separate your connectionStrings and appSettings configuration settings into external configuration files

In this article, we will describe how to separate your connection strings and appSettings into external files from your web.config or app.config.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Dec 04, 2007   148 Views  

VB.NET: How To: Get the the client's computer name that is consuming a web service

This article will show you how to get the client's computer name that is calling your web service.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 28, 2007   134 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Overcome the 32k limitation of the event log

This article will show you one way of overcoming the 32k character limitation of the event log. The sample code in this article can also be easily retrofitted to used the enterprise library.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 26, 2007   125 Views  

.NET: How To: Divide a number and round it up

This article will demonstrate how to divide an integer number and round it up.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 26, 2007   93 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Configure the Enterprise Library 3.1 Logging Application Block to log the local server time

The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block by default will log the timestamp in UTC time. In the Enterprise Library ver 3.0 and earlier, if you wanted it log the local server time, you can override the FormatToken method and implement you you custom logic. If you use the Enterprise Library 3.1, this is a very easy change which we will describe in this article.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 21, 2007   1865 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Configure Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) settings in web.config

Does your ASP.NET 2.0 application sends email, here is a shortcut to configure the SMTP settings in the web.config.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 19, 2007   85 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Remove all HTML tags from a string using regular expressions

This article will show you how to remove all HTML tags from a string using regular expressions.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Nov 15, 2007   142 Views  

ASP.NET: How To: Add a row count column to a GridView, DataList or Repeater

This article will show you how to add a row count column to a GridView. This technique can also be applied to a DataList or a Repeater.

2 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Sep 07, 2007   1743 Views  

ASP.NET: Error: Nullable type fields not showing up in GridView

When you have a collection of objects with nullable datatype members, they don't get rendered when binding to a GridView automatically.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Aug 20, 2007   89 Views  

.NET: How To: Convert an Array of Objects to a Generics List

This article will show you how to convert an array of object to a generic list.

0 Comments   Posted by LazyAssCoder on Aug 15, 2007   6270 Views