April 2009 - Posts

30 April 2009
How to watch ABC.com shows on Windows 7

For some reason ABC.com does an OS check when loading the MoveNetworks player. If you are using Windows 7 you’ll see an error like this: Oops Our new video player is only available for: Windows XP/Vista - Internet Explorer, Firefox Mac - Firefox, Safari. Read More...

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Filed under: solution, windows

 

06 April 2009
Solution to “Operation must use an updateable query” Exception when writing to an Access Database from ASP.NET

Could be a couple of things: The file is marked as read-only. Right click on file, uncheck “read only”. The application pool identity doesn’t have write permissions to the folder that contains the MDB. Find the identity of the application pool (using Read More...

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Filed under: solution, asp.net, c#, access, error messages

 

03 April 2009
Mobile Browser Detection in ASP.NET

Before last week the only two viable Mobile Browser Detection options were: WURFL – Great for non-.NET solutions.  .NET APIs lack support DeviceAtlas – Great for .NET solutions, but it’s starts at $99/server/year.  DeviceAtlas claims to have Read More...

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Filed under: asp.net, c#, mobile, mdbf

 

02 April 2009
Mobile Web Design Book References

I just finished Cameron Moll’s “ Mobile Web Design ” book. Not only is it a great book…short, sweet and comprehensive, but it has a lot of great references. I figured I’d help others find the references by bookmarking them on delicious.com (with Cameron’s Read More...

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Filed under: webdev, bookmarks, delicious, mobiledev, mobile