.NET app using Jet on x64

April 21st, 2010

If you are trying to use an Access MDB file using the Microsoft Jet OleDb driver in .NET or ASP.NET, you must set your platform target to x86 (32 bit).

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System.String hidden UTF8 BOM

April 21st, 2010

In .NET, a string (System.String) can contain an initial UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) which might not be seen in ordinary processing but is present when converted to a character array or into an encoding byte array.

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Clearing nested CSS floats

April 21st, 2010

Here’s a XHTML/CSS technique to ensure you only clear the desired floats and get the right background areas for your DIV.

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Adding Access key support to DotNetNuke

April 21st, 2010

This page explains how to add “access key” support to a DNN5 web site.
Access keys provide keyboard short-cuts to improve web accessibility, as described here – which also lists the UK government recommendations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_key

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