Product Development

Problem with OCX and ASIUTIL for decryption.

Has anyone else had issues with VB6 calls to ASIUTIL.DLL?

 

We are experiencing a problem on a specific machine that fails to call the ASIUTIL.DLL

Here is the code snipit

How do I change the order of menu choices in the left hand menu - Site Designer

How do I rearrange the order of menu items in the left hand menu via the Site Designer?

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How to get high-quality images out of Visio (especially if you need them to make PDFs)

While Visio makes great diagrams and flow charts, it does not make great JPGs (or really, any other file formats other than their own VSDs.) I've struggled with needing to make PDFs from annotated JPGs created in Visio, and the resulting PDF looked grainy and blurry. After some digging on the Internets, I found a forum post made by a Microsoft employee who works on Visio, and discovered that Microsoft knows their JPG converter is terrible (even if you are saving them as 100% quality) and that the best way to get a high-quality resulting image is to save it as an EMF file. You can then paste the EMF file into Word (where it looks great), or use Word to create a PDF (also great).  Problem solved!

Telerik RadMenu Nightmare

Hi All,

I am trying to edit the new 1700 template to fit with a website I am building. Most of the conversion is going well and I have to say that the new 1700 template is a lot cleaner and easier to understand than the previous templates. However, I am running into a lot of problems around the RadMenu component for the navigation.

RadMenu is inserting it's own styles and I can't find any way to override certain things like the background images.

Flexible width on 1700 template for mobile

I am building out a mobile site on my demo image and came across the following issue – The typical resolution of a smartphone screen is 320x480 – i.e width is 320px (Most new smartphones are similar) I have created a website with the 1700 template in 15.1.3, and stripped out as much functionality as possible to make it really easy to read on a mobile. However, the 1700 template will not decrease in size below 750px - which means, when I access on my phone, it scales it down in size, making all the fonts hard to read. I thought this template was meant to be scalable for mobile. Does anyone know what I need to do to get it to have a flexible width down to 320px?

Using plain old custom tables in an iMIS database

We need to access data in custom tables--not built-in tables that come with iMIS or user-defined tables (UDT’s), but plain old tables that we write in SQL and place into the iMIS database.  Although the iMIS application itself will leave these tables alone, they are used for custom development that involves integrating with iMIS.  Otherwise, they are plain old sql database tables.

We’ve ruled out using Business Object Designer to create Business Objects to access these.  Is better to access these custom tables with stored procedures or with an ORM tool such as NHibernate or Entity Framework?  Will the fact that these tables are in the iMIS database and the fact that these are used for custom development to integrate with iMIS cause one or the other to not work, or otherwise have any problems?

off-topic - need suggestions for a Lead generation service/tool

I am looking for a lead generation tool to collect contact info from visitors when the download some white papers on my site. Could any one suggest a serice they have used for this? i would prefer to have a landing page on my site that lists the documents and gathers info from visitors or use an email bulletin that send out these links to a group of people with our target market (R&D professionals).

Agile Austin: Resources for learning the method

Agile Austin has put together a nice collection of resources for learning agile development practices: http://www.agileaustin.org/agile-resources/

It recommends books, websites, listservs, blogs, videos, and podcasts, to support many learning styles. It also links to tools that members have recommended for use with agile.

Cart Discount how or why override PriceCache:35218;3742665;1: 112.5000

 

PriceCache:35218;3742665;1: 112.5000

Could I set this value to 1/2 price something like

PriceCache:35218;3742665;1: 56.25

The  page

http://vvv.nn.com/imispublic/Cart/Core/cart/MyCart.aspx

Has a reference to

namespace IWC.UI.WebControlspublic abstract class CartPage : DisplayPageBase, IImpersonationPage

The stock iMIS page reveals that  /iMISpublic/AM/ContentManagerNet/ShowVariables.aspx

Tools to check web accessibility

Testing and correcting accessibility problems throughout the development process is all about tools. Here are tips I've collected:

Finding more tools: