Unfortunately Microsoft did not incorporate a DataAnnotation to change the default message The value ‘xxx’ is not valid for Property to a custom one.
This is when you create an int or decimal property in your model, you bind it to an input box (TextBoxFor) then try to submit the form, then you get this ugly looking message. Below I show you how to change it to whatever you want.
Continue readingRecently I had to create an Admin Panel Menu and this is what I came up with.
Below is the code and Fiddle
Continue readingI always knew there were some missing verses in modern Bible translations when compared to the King James Version (KJV), but never really knew what those verses were, nor bothered to do some research on them. It was until a few weeks back that I intentionally took the task upon myself to do that research and compare modern Bible translations to the KJV.
Since there are a lot of Bible translations out there, I only took a few to compare, more specifically the New International Version (NIV), the English Standard Version (ESV), the New Living Translation (NLT), and the American Standard Version (ASV).
Continue readingI will be showing you how to import and update a single contact from your third party system to Constant Contact using the Constant Contact API. Here is the API description for the POST (Create) call and PUT (Update) call.
Continue readingIn this post I will show you how to use the Bulk Activities from the Constant Contact API to import contacts from your custom application to your Constant Contact Account.
Continue readingYou are given the assignment to create a CSV file report, and you say “No Problem, I just get the necessary data from SQL Server and create the CSV file”, however the columns have a max character length and Column13 has more characters than those allowed. How to handle this if you need to report all of the information in Column13?
The answer is to split that row into multiple rows. All columns will be duplicated (into the split rows) except for Column13 which will have the split information. Below I’ll show you how to accomplish this.
Continue readingChanging the PDF version with iTextSharp is fairly easy, all you have to do is create a stamper and pass an extra parameter with the PDF version you want. Below is the code snippet to accomplish this in C# and VB.NET.
Continue readingI will show two methods to flatten editable form fields in a PDF file. Method 1 is true form flattening and method 2 is just making the editable fields read only. Personally I was using method 1 for some time, however in some instances (more specifically when merging images into a PDF file and messing with the editable fields), this specific method would throw an error upon opening the PDF file in Adobe Reader stating that Acrobat may not display the page correctly, however I never noticed anything wrong with the PDF file, everything was being displayed correctly, but this “error” was kinda annoying, so I opted to change the code a bit to make all the fields Read Only instead of flattening the form.
Below is the code to perform both, flatten the form and make all the fields Read Only.
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