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Visual Web Developer: Enable AutoRecover and Set Save Interval

contributed by Rob Rogers on July 16, 2007 under Web application programming

Using AutoRecover can be a real lifesaver, especially if disaster strikes and you lose all of that great coding that you were working on. By default, Visual Web Developer has AutoRecover disabled. To enable AutoRecover and set the save and retention intervals, follow these steps:

Dreamweaver 8: Insert Flash Buttons

contributed by Rob Rogers on February 5, 2007 under Web application programming

A Flash button is a quick Flash movie that acts like a rollover image. You can build Flash buttons in Dreamweaver without any other tools, to do this . . .

Microsoft Expression Web: How To Clear the MRU List for Find and Replace

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 18, 2007 under Web application programming

Expression Web saves a list of your recently used searches to provide easy access to them by clicking the Most Recently Used button. You may find that you need to clear this out since you no longer need some or all of the searches. To clear the MRU list for Find and Replace, do the following:

Microsoft Expression Web: Allow Users to Sort Data Displayed in Grid

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 16, 2007 under Web application programming

In some situations, it works best to allow users to be able to sort the displayed data as they need to. Not everyone needs the data sorted in the same manner. You can give your users the choice as to how they want the data displayed in the GridView control by doing this…

Microsoft Expression Web: Set the Transparency of an Image

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 13, 2007 under Web application programming

Giving a color transparency in Expression Web can be quite useful, especially if the image has a background color different from that of the page. To do this…

Microsoft Expression Web: How To Rename a Style Class

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 12, 2007 under Web application programming

If you need to rename a style class, you need to follow the correct procedures in order to have the application update all references to that style class. Failing to do that will result in the need to manually update each reference. To rename a style class and update all references to that style, do the following…

Ruby on Rails: Reload Script/Console Without Restarting

contributed by johnnythawte on December 6, 2006 under Ruby on Rails

When you are testing your rails application using script/console, you have to stop and start the console to test changes to your model objects. This recipe shows you the easy way to reload the console.

Make Wordpress Stop Replacing Double Dash with Em-dash

contributed by johnnythawte on November 20, 2006 under PHP programming

Wordpress by default replaces the double dash (–) with an em-dash character. If you are showing code or programming examples this will cause your visitors unnecessary confusion. This recipe shows the simple way to turn that behavior off.

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