http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Tue, 07 May 2013 11:35:29 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001029.html I recently had to move a .NET application directory to a new location on an IIS 6 server. When I did, of course everything broke. Among the errors that had to be fixed was this one: Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'. This is usually because the application pool is not set to use the framework assigned to the application in IIS Manager. ... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001028.html I work in a small learning management department in a large Health System. One of the "forever" problems we'd like to solve, is how to get out of the way of our many clinical subject matter experts and make it EASY for them to put trackable learning content online by themselves. Why is this still a problem in this age... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000999.html While trying to install a .NET application on a Windows Server 2003 box, I ran into a problem where the .aspx extension was not being recognized. Browsing .NET pages resulted in 404 ("page not found") errors. Since the same set of application files had been installed on several other servers without incident, it seemed likely that there was something different... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000995.html Just finished reading a fairly devastating review of Windows 8 by Jakob Nielsen. I have to wonder if some of the choices they made in designing the interface were forced because of patent considerations, considering all the air has been sucked out of the room in that regard by Apple. Worth a read, if you are wondering what to expect... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000949.html In a .NET application used to deliver quizzes, attempting to import a large quiz from another server resulted in this error: "The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that exceeds the request content length." A second message stated: "Request filtering is configured on the Web server to deny the request because the content length exceeds the configured... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000946.html If Windows Journal starts crashing every time you try to open it, these instructions might just fix it (thanks to David Bradley):... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000935.html If you try to connect to an Oracle Database using the Test Connection button in the Data Sources (ODBC) Control Panel, and get the error [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed, try the following suggestions:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000926.html If you install phpMyAdmin on IIS and get the error: PROBLEM: cannot load mcrypt extension. please check your php configuration This could be due to the extension being missing or that it is not listed correctly in php.ini file. Listed below are the instructions from around the web that I followed to get this working:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000921.html If you have change the IP address that an IIS website is pointing to, then find that when you try to restart IIS services you get the error: The network location cannot be reached. ...you may need to use a utility called httpcfg to tell IIS to listen specifically to the new IP.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000902.html For a recent project I created several sets of Windows scheduled tasks that generate iCal files and FTP them to another server. Each file-generator task executes an ASP script that creates the customized iCal file. Then the corresponding FTP task runs a a batch file (.bat) that contains the commands to transfer the file. After a while, I noticed that... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000893.html When installing Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion or Parallels, if you get the following error: The unattend answer file contains an invalid product key" simply open the VMWare Settings or in Parallels, select Virtual Machine > Configure and disconnect the floppy drive. Resources Error message about unattend file when upgrading Virtual Machine to Windows 7 "The unattend answer file contains... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000851.html Most of the users I work with with are unfamiliar with the concepts of FTP transfer or compressed archives, primarily because they never have to use them. These days, there are other options for transferring files than FTP, with a fast network and various cloud sharing services, and documents rarely have to be compressed, even for email purposes. But occasionally,... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000839.html I often use the command console.log() to trace the execution of my javascript functions in Firebug's or Safari's consoles. The only problem is, Internet Explorer doesn't understand console.log() and moreover, it doesn't error out gracefully. It stops the script execution. As a result, it was necessary to be very careful to turn off the console.log() statements whenever a script goes... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000814.html We are using an ASP script to create iCal files from a database, so another department can display the events on their web-based calendar. Their calendar page is outside the corporate firewall. The ASP script needs to reside on and IIS server within the firewall. I needed a fool-proof way to transfer the ical file nightly out to an external... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000813.html