Older versions of Internet Explorer, older to IE 9, ignore the background clause if there is no leading space given to ‘no-repeat’. [More]

I have a column in one of the tables in a SQL Server database where the values must be unique. This column can also contain null values. Now, if I add a unique index on this column, it ensures that all values must be unique in the column (and indexes them too), but, that includes null values too. This means that the column can contain only one null value (at most) i.e. duplicate nulls are not allowed! The problem is how to allow multiple null values in a column with unique index? The solution is to ... [More]

How to remove iFrame Border in IE? The solution is simple, just have to add an attribute - frameborder="0" [More]

Managing Connection String for LINQ: This is a very common requirement, you build an application, test it and publish it and in all of the three stages your connection string changes while your dbml file still refers to the default one in your application settings file. [More]

After a long wait, yesterday I upgraded this blog to 1.6.1 version. I have been very sceptical about it since long coz I use custom modules / extensions / themes and thought that the upgrade will take a lot of time. But it wasn’t as complex and as time consuming as I thought it would be. My m... [More]

Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the \\ section in the application configuration. [More]

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I prefer long running applications to be nicely docked to the system tray (the area where clock appears in Windows), IMs fall in the same category of applications. Recently, when I installed Windows Live Messenger on my Windows 7 machine, I noticed that it would remain on the Taskbar and would not ... [More]

This is rather very easy and most of you must be aware of how to deactivate Buzz in Gmail, but I struggled to find the option when I wanted to turn it off for the first time. So for others like me, I’ll mention the steps to hide Google Buzz from your Gmail in this post. To turn off Google Buzz in y... [More]

You want to chat with your Facebook friends without sharing your other IM id, but you don’t like the little clumsy chat box that Facebook provides. No worries, coz there’s a hidden chat interface that enables you to use a full size chat box which fills in your browser window. Click here to access t... [More]

CS1529: A using clause must precede all other namespace elements except extern alias declarations - BlogEngine.NET [More]