Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

Month: August 2011

  • Often I find that I need to display a date and/or time in a specific format. Luckily VB.NET provides many options to adjust how a date is rendered as a string. Today, for example, I was working on a Web-based report that can be exported as an Excel file. As part of the process I…

  • The Challenge: IE blocks cookies from pages that are called in an iFrame. In my case this involved an ASP.NET application called from a Drupal CMS via a jQuery-based FancyBox. Details: Today I ran into an interesting IE problem that was tricky to track down. A few years ago I inherited a simple but useful…

  • In this article I will review the steps needed to get IIS 7 (on Windows 2008 server) hosting ASP.NET pages. I cover the basic steps to set up IIS7  in a previous article at:  https://jwcooney.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/iis-7-on-windows-7-setup-steps-to-get-iis-running-asp-net-files/ When working with a fresh installation of IIS 7 there are a few steps that need to be taken when…