Victor Chen

Get Server Computer Name in C#

Victor Chen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:16:27 +0000

The situation is I have an existing C# web application (.NET 3.5) hosted on Windows Server 2003 on a company Intranet. I want to get the name of the computer on which the web application is hosted. This can be achieved by: Environment.MachineName Environment requires the System namespace.

Shortcut to Restart X in CentOs 4.6

Victor Chen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:22:56 +0000

For the longest time, whenever I needed to restart X, I would simply reboot. It never occurred to me there would be an easy command/shortcut to achieve the same objective, without waiting for the often time long reboot. All you need to do is click: CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE This will restart your X, [...]

Default from bash to csh in CentOs 4.6

Victor Chen — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:22:43 +0000

In a simple post, my CentOs 4.6 default shell is BASH when I log in as root. I finally got tired of manually switching to csh with the ‘csh’ command. My goal was to set the default shell of Centos 4.6 to CSH. The solution was simple and I wish I had done it earlier. [...]

Samsung SyncMaster 2233rz, NVIDIA 3D Vision, Linux, and Pymol

Victor Chen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:15:11 +0000

I’ve been tasked with getting a3d visualizations working on a linux machine (running Centos 4.6) for Pymol and a variety of other 3d visualization software. CRT monitors capable of 3d are difficult, if not impossible to purchase. In the LCD range, we got the Zalman monitor working, but it was not very clear. So instead, [...]

NFS Share Directory in Solaris 7

Victor Chen — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:02:46 +0000

I had the task to share a folder on a Solaris 7 machine so the files could be accessed from a modern day linux box. After some major research on over half a dozen sites, I found that I would need to add the following line in bold to a file called dfstab in the [...]

Encode HyperLink in GridView using Custom Expression Binding

Victor Chen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:33:05 +0000

In my C# Web Application, I have a GridView with a TemplatField. Within the TemplateField is a HyperLink control. My goal is to bind this HyperLink control using Custom Expression Binding. I want the NavigateUrl to point to: Visit.aspx?name=XXX XXX in the link above is the database column name. My first instinct is to use [...]

Enable IIS Manager in Windows 7

Victor Chen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:41:02 +0000

To enable the IIS Manager in Windows 7, you’ll need to follow the following steps: From Windows 7′s Start Menu, search for ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ or find the application from the Control Panel. To enable IIS Management Console, browse to: Internet Information Services > Web Management Tools > IIS Management Console. Check [...]

Unable to add to the Web site. Unable to add file. Access is denied.

Victor Chen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:38:07 +0000

While taking over a C# Web Application that had been migrated to work with Visual Studio 2008 (originally developed and migrated from Visual Studio .NET 2003), I occasionally ran into issues while trying to publish the web application to the production server (or any server for that matter). In the output log, there were multiple [...]

Unable to Create Virtual Directory in VS2008 and Windows 7

Victor Chen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:14:31 +0000

When developing C# Web applications in Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7, I usually disable Visual Studio Development Server and setup directly with the Local IIS Web server. However, I run into the following error message. Unable to create the virtual directory. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components: [...]

Programmatically Submit Form on Enter Key in C#

Victor Chen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:07:10 +0000

By default, a majority of the pages and all the functions on a C# Web Application page are all contained within a single form element. Therefore, there may be multiple buttons or other postback controls within a single form. And this may be the reason why there isn’t by default a control which is automatically [...]