20 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Blog’s Usability

Your blog’s usability – how would you define it? Would it be the ease with which your site operates, or would it be the ease of use of your product? Here’s how we define it; everything that works towards reducing your visitor’s frustration and helps enhance their overall experience is an example of good usability. 1. Take An Objective Look At Your Blog Keep the following questions in mind: Does anything distract you from the content? Is there too much information, or too little? Do your pages feel overwhelming? Would you enjoy reading your posts again? 2. If It Isn’t Life Or Death, Eliminate It Too many navigational links everywhere? Too Many Ads? Perhaps your sign-on form has too many fields? Chop everything you absolutely don’t need. 3. Make Your Content Clear And Legible Don’t...

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Export Datatable into csv

  Introduction: While working on .net projects you may get a situation where you need to export data into csv (Comma Separated Value) file format. There are so many ways of doing this and different programmers use to do it on different ways depending on situations and availability of data and resources they have. Here I am going to share a simple function which will help you in exporting data from Datatable to csv file. Prerequisite: Before I share this function, I assumes that you already have data in Datatable. C# Code: #region Method : ConvertToCSV private void ConvertToCSV(DataTable dt, string fileName, string delimiter) { //prepare the output stream Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "text/csv"; Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", ...

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Get current page URL using JavaScript

Introduction In our web application sometimes we require current page URL on client side, like when we share any script or perform any action according to the page name. Here I am sharing the demo code to get the current page URL using JavaScript: Code var currentPageUrl = ""; if (typeof this.href === "undefined") { currentPageUrl = document.location.toString().toLowerCase(); } else {   currentPageUrl = this.href.toString().toLowerCase(); } This code also works with the pop up...

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C#.Net: Create CheckBoxList Dynamically (In Runtime)

This is how you can create CheckBoxList in run time in C#.Net. aspx Code: <asp:Panel ID="PnlControl" runat="server"> </asp:Panel> C# Code: CheckBoxList cd = new CheckBoxList();cd.CssClass = "llcDynamicCheckbox";cd.ID = "llcDynamicCheckbox";cd.Font.Size = 8;for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++){  ListItem lt = new ListItem();  lt.Text = "Checkbox " + i.ToString();  lt.Value = i.ToString();  cd.Items.Insert(i, lt);}PnlControl.Controls.Add(cd); Accordingly you can modify this cod...

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Create Checkbox using C#.Net dynamically

This is how you can create Checkbox dynamically in run time in C#.Net. aspx Code: <asp:Panel ID="PnlControl" runat="server"> </asp:Panel> C# Code: for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {     CheckBox chkList1;     chkList1 = new CheckBox();     chkList1.Text = "CheckBox " + i.ToString();     chkList1.ID = "Chk" + i.ToString();     chkList1.Font.Name = "Verdana";     chkList1.Font.Size = 9;     PnlControl.Controls.Add(chkList1);     PnlControl.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</br>")); } Accordingly you can modify this cod...

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SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database

One of my friend came to me with this error just a few days ago while restoring the database: Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database. Solution is very simple and not as difficult as we were thinking. He was trying to restore the database on another existing active database. Fix/WorkAround/Solution: 1) Use WITH REPLACE while using the RESTORE command. 2) Delete the older database which is conflicting and restore again using RESTORE command. I understand my solution is little different but I use it to fix my database issue successfully. 3) Sample Example : RESTORE DATABASE [DB_Name] FROM DISK = N'F:\ProdDBBackup\db_201305011837.SAFE_2.bak' WITH REPLAC...

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Response.Redirect throws “Thread was being aborted”

Response.Redirect causes the browser to redirect to a different URL. It does so by sending a 302 – Object Moved to the browser, requesting it to do another roundtrip to the new page. Here is an example: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {   try   {    if (IsTrue)       Response.Redirect(“http://www.harigeek.com”, true);   }   catch (Exception ex)   {     // All exceptions are caught and written     // to a log file   } } When doing the Response.Redirect, .net will automatically throw an System.Threading.ThreadAbortExcept when the redirect is called. Cause: Response.Redirect calls the the...

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