While testing an ASP validation control in Internet Explorer I found that the validation wasn’t triggered if I selected an item from the autocomplete list for a text box, this was the same in Safari for Windows, but worked fine in Mozilla Firefox. What?!
phreplace is a VB6 DLL which is called from a vbscript plugin for PSPad. The script tests to see if the correct version of the DLL is registered on this computer, if not it registers it using regsvr32. This works fine in XP but not Vista where the script will error.
A while ago a user pointed out to me this article on Experts Exchange explaining why administrative rights are required to register a DLL in Windows Vista, in the hopes that we could automate the registration of phreplace in Vista. Read the rest of this entry »
Need to validate a form field based on the value of another field in ASP.Net? The .Net Framework provides a javascript function to do just that:
ValidatorEnable(val, enable)This function takes the validator control (val) and a boolean to determine whether it should be enable or disabled. The problem with this function is that it triggers the validator to validate itself immediately, showing any validation error messages before the user has submitted the form, which may not always be want you want. The alternative is to set the validator’s enabled property to trigger this validator to validate itself when the user submits the form, and by using the Page_IsValid variable you can test whether the user has triggered a validation or not, then use ValidatorEnable function only after the validation has occurred when the user expects to see validation messages. Read the rest of this entry »
