I have been (slowly) working on the Web Based FileZilla Administration project. One of the issues that I could predict happening would be the creation of a user/group/setting and then the end user would leave the page without saving their changes. There are many ways to handle this type of issue, bu... [More]

ASP.NET Gravatar Control

March 13, 2007

Gravatar 2.0 has been out for a few weeks now and I didn't see any ASP.NET implementation listed on their site so I figured I would wip one up. It is pretty simple to implement a Gravatar. All you need to do is set the src attribute of an img tag to a location on Gravatar's domain. The src att... [More]

I had been getting this error: Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster. I scoured the net and none of... [More]

All web developers and designers should know by now that you should not use the traditional <object><embed>... method for placing Flash content on your site. Macromedia (Adobe) recommends using javascript to load the Flash content and it works just fine. However, if you are a .NET progra... [More]

Keyvan Nayyeri wrote up an article (and HttpModule) on how he handles removing the www from the URI when people visit his site. I wrote something similar to this a while back for a site I develop. This particular company has about 10 domain names that all point to the companies main web site. Back i... [More]