Moving A DotNetNuke Install Into Root ( Up A Directory )

Finally managed to get my DNN v4.6.2 install into the root. My problem was I had tried darrenmcleod.com/ as the portal alias but it kept giving me an infinite redirect error.  Then I tried darrenmcleod.com as the portal alias and everything is goodness.  Note that when you make a change like this just through the database you need to do something to cause your application to reload, like editing a line in web.config and saving it.

Dynamic HeaderText for an ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control

I wanted to have the Wizard Control Header display the current step’s title, after a little research I found that the ActiveStepChanged event would allow me to do this. So I added an event handler like this:

    Protected Sub Wizard1_ActiveStepChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Wizard1.ActiveStepChanged
        Me.Wizard1.HeaderText = Me.Wizard1.ActiveStep.Title
    End Sub

Except it didn’t set the Header for the first step so I set the HeaderText manually to the first step’s title like this:

    <asp:Wizard ID="Wizard1" runat="server" HeaderText="Step 1"> 
        <WizardSteps> 
            <asp:WizardStep ID="WizardStep1" runat="server" Title="Step 1"> 
            </asp:WizardStep> 
            <asp:WizardStep ID="WizardStep2" runat="server" Title="Step 2"> 
            </asp:WizardStep> 
        </WizardSteps> 
    </asp:Wizard>

How to make an ASP.NET Web User Control Width editable.

Add a property to your WebUserControl:

Private widthValue As Integer
Public Property Width() As Integer
    Get 
        Return widthValue 
    End Get 
    Set(ByVal value As Integer)
        widthValue = value 
    End Set 
End Property 

Then add a prerender event handler to the WebUserControl, where in this example the MainTable happens to be the outermost container element in the Web User Control with a width attribute:

Private Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRender
    If Me.Width > 0 Then
        Me.MainTable.Width = Me.Width
    End If 
End Sub

Then wherever you use the control you can specify the width if you want to:

<uc2:MyWebUserControl ID="MyWebUserControl1" runat="server" width="650" />

VS 2005 Team System Webtest ValidationRule on an asp:dropdownlist control

With this html:

<select name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$CompanyDropDownList" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_CompanyDropDownList" class="Normal">
  <option selected="selected" value="1">All</option>
  <option value="2">Company 1</option>
  <option value="3">Company 2</option>
  <option value="4">Company 3</option>
  <option value="5">Company 4</option>
  <option value="6">Company 5</option>

 </select>

In my webtest I wanted to verify CompanyDropDownList had selected option 2 "Company 1".

Tried Form Field with form field name ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$CompanyDropDownList but it did not work.

Using Required Attribute Value worked with the following values:

Attribute Name             value

Expected Value            2

Ignore Case                  False

Match Attribute Name    selected

Match Attribute Value    selected

Tag Name                     option

Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks. ExceptionManagement The event source x does not exist error

 If you get the following error when using the Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ExceptionManagement library:

System.Security.SecurityException: The event source ExceptionManagerInternalException does not exist and cannot be created with the current permissions. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.

at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)

at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(String name, Boolean writable)

at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(EventSourceCreationData sourceData)

at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(String source, String logName)

at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ExceptionManagement.DefaultPublisher. VerifyValidSource()

One way of solving this is to install the Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ExceptionManagement.dll by running the following in a dos window:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ExceptionManagement.dll

If for some reason your server admin doesn’t want to do that then you can just ask them to create the two event sources manually using eventcreate in a dos window:

eventcreate /t error /id 1000 /so ExceptionManagerInternalException /l application /d "new src ExceptionManagerInternalException in application log"

eventcreate /t error /id 1000 /so ExceptionManagerPublishedException /l application /d "new src ExceptionManagerPublishedException in application log"