Application variables empty in classic ASP when deployed on IIS 7.0

 

Last week, I went back in time when one of my friend asked me to help on his site developed in classic ASP. He wanted to deploy this on IIS 7.0 and was getting all his Application variables empty. First, I thought there will be one more global.asa in one of parent directory. But there was no other global.asa file and the worst part was all session variables were working. Finally, I was able to fix this by converting the site from Virtual directory to an Application in IIS 7.0.

So, to make your classic ASP site which is using Application variables work with IIS 7.0, deploy it as an application and not virtual directory. Glad ASP.NET came :-)

Free Microsoft Office 2010 Book

 

Download the free e-book “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” from here

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/12/09/free-e-book-first-look-microsoft-office-2010.aspx

Upgrade Vista 32 Bit to 64 Bit Windows 7

 

If you try to install Windows 7 64-bit on 32-bit Vista, the following error would occur:

The Version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running.

The issue is you can’t do a direct in-pace upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows 7. The only way to do a clean install. Follow the below steps:

1. Backup manual data from your machine
2. Backup the application settings and user documents\pictures etc using Windows Easy Transfer(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/easy-transfer.aspx)
3. Create a bootable DVD or USB using Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool(http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html)
4. Restart the machine and access BIOS(using F12 or other key as per your machine). Change the Boot sequence to use DVD\USB as the first option
5. Restart the machine, Windows7 setup should start now
6. Select “Custom” installation option and follow the instructions
7. Install and activate Windows 7

Enjoy the wonderful experience of Windows 7

Commonwealth Bank of Australia Login Button Missing

Last week, I was informed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia that they would be changing the look and feel for their Net banking screen. I thought that great as they should be making it more users friendly. On weekend, I went to check the page and login to the site. Unfortunately, I was unable to login into site as they forgot to put the Logon button. Yes, there was no logon button. I called help desk and was told yes some of browser have this issues. You can't use enter button as its trapped using JavaScript and you are prompt for that. Finally, I tried using it was Firefox and there you go. It worked....
So, someone forgot to test the site on Internet Explorer as if that not the most common used browser 
I dig more and found that there was in fact a logon button which was not visible on IE. You could go to this using tab and will find a hidden box selected. Clicking on that took me inside the net banking.
A nice workaround :-). I think CBA would focus more on user ability testing from next time

Bienvenue: Finally started

So this is it, then. My blog is up and running. For some time now, I've been getting the urge to write little tidbits about what is going on in my head. I knew what I needed, but I never got to installing it on my web server. This week I finally got to it.What will I be talking about? Lots of things. My interests range from cricket to software. Every once in a while I have a strong opinion on some goings on in the world.I will also be talking a lot about my self, my community and software technologies I work on. I will share my experiences and challenges with you. I will be asking for your opinion on features and implementation details.