When creating a skeleton web app in Visual Studio that uses bootstrap it creates a layout with a full width menu bar across the top that also contains the company name in text. Quite often the first thing to do here is to replace the name with a company logo. The problem is here that […]
In CSS there is a hardly known formatting feature for text called text-shadow and this will do exactly as it sounds and display a shadow against the text. This can be quite useful when overlaying text on a textured or image background. This command can be used in place of a graphic with a corresponding […]
When writing workflow plugins for Dynamics365 it seems that standard practice if an exception or error appears in the code is to throw an exception which will pop up on the interface for the user, or appear in the logs if it isn’t a real time workflow. The problem with this approach is that when […]
A quick and useful JavaScript function to display numbers with a fixed number of decimal places. The default number of places can be set by changing the value of the defaultPlaces variable. In the example above it is set to 2 places. Calling the function showAsFloat(65.267) would return 65.27 The number of places can be […]
Embedded webresources on a Dynamics365 form are very useful. They can provide screen layouts and functions that the out of the box solution cannot. This example shows how a message can be posted directly to the webresource, and this makes it useful for passing live updates from the parent Dynamics365 page without having to go […]
As web page security has increased talking to your child web pages has gotten more difficult, but there is a simple way, and best of all it won’t throw security errors. JavaScript comes with a PostMessage function that quickly allows parent pages to talk to children, and even more important for child pages to answer […]
Sometimes there are times when IP addresses change and your machine gets a little confused by holding onto the old site, or even when you know the site is out there but you still keep getting a 404 Page not found error. First thing you need to do is open a Command Prompt with Administrator […]
There are times when you need administrator rights to run an application, often something as useful as a command prompt needs administrator rights to perform system tasks. A quick way to do this if you have Cortana on your taskbar is to quickly type CMD into Cortana and you will be presented with a dialog […]
Occasionally you might need to run a program but need additional rights, for example if you are logged in as a normal non administrator user, and you have to do something that requires administrator rights. Instead of logging out and logging back in again, or logging in again as a new user to the machine […]
Consider this you are writing a training manual, some software documentation or even a blog post and the program you are working with requires the user to approve the Windows UAC dialog. You need to take a screenshot but each time you try nothing happens. Here is the solution When the dialog triggers, select the […]