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In one of my Win32 DLL projects, whenever I tried to add a resource file, I got the “Automation server can’t create object” object. Similar to other errors, this was not very informative. After searching for this error, I found this the common cause of this problem is that Windows Scripting host is corrupt. You […]

As the Office 2007 is growing and getting more popular, I get more and more files from the client and other colleagues in the new Office 2007 format. I still have Office 2003, yes that ancient one, and it was not able to read those files (not correct, read more). I had thought many time […]

I have been working on the website development for few years now and nearly 98% of the time I was using the Tables for the web page layout. I had known that this task can be better done using the CSS, but, to be honest, I didn’t had courage to drop the old fashioned technique of […]

Today I was modifying an ASP.net user control (a rating control) which register a script at startup to initialize itself. As I was expecting, when I placed that control in the ASP.Net UpdatePanel (for AJAX) the initialization script didn’t run after the AJAX callback and thus the control didn’t worked. While looking at the code, I […]

TinyMCE Editor allows you to have multiple layout configurations (different type of buttons and toolbars) per theme. These custom layout configurations are automatically applied to the text boxes by the depending on the ‘editor_selector’ class of each text boxes.  All works beautifully until you try to add a text control with the correct CSS class dynamically using JavaScript […]