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Re: IE's insane limit of restricting stylesheets

21-Mar-12 7:00

Internet Explorer seems to have some hard-bound limit of number of style definitions a page can have. A quick Google search gave me the number as 31 (http://john.albin.net/css/ie-stylesheets-not-loading[^]). But I don't think my page is hitting this limit.

The problem is not present in Chrome/FF. Anyone ran into a similar issue?

Browser: IE 9

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Not Active21-Mar-12 8:46

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21-Mar-12 8:46

Is there question here?

If you need more than 31 CSS files for your application then you should rethink the design or use better CSS.

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Re: IE's insane limit of restricting stylesheets

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar21-Mar-12 8:51

Re: IE's insane limit of restricting stylesheets

21-Mar-12 8:51

Is there a reason for this 31 only for Internet Explorer when W3C standards or other browsers do not stipulate one?

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Not Active21-Mar-12 9:30

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21-Mar-12 9:30

Because 30 was too few and 32 too many. Or maybe the team felt if you needed that many CSS files you should be designing webpages.

Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.

May be a lucky numerology number for Micro$oft?

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar21-Mar-12 9:35

21-Mar-12 9:35

SQL Server has a recursion limit of 32 and they impose a similar range in stylesheets too!

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Really Dim Question...

Dalek Dave21-Mar-12 4:59

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21-Mar-12 4:59

...but then a really dim person asking!

I see that default.aspx will be the 'index' page, but I am using default.cshtml.
(There is also default.vbhtml).

Is there any real difference, or do the browsers only pick up on the DEFAULT bit?

(Or are they well trained enough to pick up the extensions and treat them differently?)

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Pete O'Hanlon21-Mar-12 5:57

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21-Mar-12 5:57

The default page has nothing to do with the browser. Basically, what happens is that the browser sends a request through to the web server - if no web page is specified, it looks through the list of default pages it has registered, and opens up that page; note that there is a priority here, so if you have default.htm as a higher priority than default.aspx in the web server, and you have both pages available at that level of the website, default.htm will be opened.

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Dalek Dave21-Mar-12 6:30

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21-Mar-12 6:30

Right, thanks.

It is a server side decision, not a client's browser then.

I must remember to change the priorities, just in case a surreptitious .html gets in there.

Pete O'Hanlon21-Mar-12 6:37

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21-Mar-12 6:37

That's correct. Remember that the browser has no knowledge of what the server can serve up to it.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar21-Mar-12 6:55

dynamically creating aspx pages using xslt and xml

21-Mar-12 6:55

Default documents are configured at the server-end:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/203/default-documents/[^]

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kasakrajesh21-Mar-12 4:02

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21-Mar-12 4:02

dynamically creating aspx pages using xslt and xml

Re: dynamically creating aspx pages using xslt and xml

Not Active21-Mar-12 4:14

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21-Mar-12 4:14

OK. What is the question?

Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.

need help with gridview and sql

Dylan98821-Mar-12 3:43

21-Mar-12 3:43

Hi, i am currently doing a project on web service for wine. i have the wine table with wineName and wineType. Also i have the search function implemented in the webservice coding as well as a separate webform to call the function of the search function.

I have the following code for performing search in the search service:

<WebMethod()> _
   Public Function Search(ByVal searchName As String) As System.Data.DataSet
       Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ConnectionString
       Dim con As New SqlConnection(connectionString)

       Dim selectSql As String = "SELECT * From Wine WHERE WineType='" & searchName + "'"

       Dim selectAdapter As New Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter(selectSql, con)
       Dim ds As New Data.DataSet
       con.Open()
       selectAdapter.Fill(ds, "Wine")
       con.Close()

       Return ds

   End Function

As for the webform, it's just a simple page with textbox labeled as searchName, a button and a gridView1 tied to ObjectDataSource.

This is the coding i have for webform:

Partial Class Search
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page


    Dim searching As searchwine.Service = New searchwine.Service

    Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If searchName.Text = "" Then
            lblDisplayError.Text = "Can't search empty field!"
        Else
            Dim ds As DataSet = searching.Search(searchName.Text)
            GridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables(0)
            GridView1.DataBind()
            GridView1.Visible = True
            lblDisplayError.Visible = False

        End If


    End Sub

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        lblDisplayError.Text = ""
        GridView1.Visible = False
    End Sub
End Class

Everything seems fine but i have the following error when i want to do a search:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at Service.Search(String searchName)

Can anyone help me out please? thank you very much

ZurdoDev21-Mar-12 4:14

21-Mar-12 4:14

So what happens when you step through and debug it?

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Dylan98821-Mar-12 4:29

21-Mar-12 4:29

the error occurs at the following line of code:

Dim ds As DataSet = searching.Search(searchName.Text)

Is there any way that i can improve this line?

ZurdoDev21-Mar-12 4:33

21-Mar-12 4:33

You are getting a null reference error. But you already have an if statement checking searchName.Text so it isn't searchName which means either searching is null or the error is actually occuring inside the searching.Search method.

I believe your error is actually happening within Search so try stepping into that function as you debug.

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Dylan98821-Mar-12 4:45

21-Mar-12 4:45

thanks ryan.
for my search service i have the following code

<WebMethod()> _
Public Function Search(ByVal searchName As String) As System.Data.DataSet
    Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ConnectionString
    Dim MyConnection As New SqlConnection(connectionString)
    Dim MyCommand As New SqlCommand()

    MyCommand.Connection = MyConnection
    MyCommand.CommandType = Data.CommandType.Text

    MyCommand.CommandType = "SELECT * From Book WHERE WineType like @prmSearchName"

    MyCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("prmSearchName", "'%" & searchName & "%'")

    MyCommand.Connection = MyConnection

    Dim selectAdapter As New Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter
    Dim ds As New Data.DataSet
    MyConnection.Open()
    selectAdapter.Fill(ds, "Wine")
    MyConnection.Close()

    Return ds

End Function

does the code looks good to you?

ZurdoDev21-Mar-12 4:51

21-Mar-12 4:51

Ya, I didn't notice anything wrong which is why I suggest you step into the web service, if you can. Is the web service in a different project? If so, put try catch around your code in the service (which you really should have anyway Smile | :)

) and hopefully you can see a stack trace of which line exactly is causing the issue.

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Dylan98821-Mar-12 4:58

21-Mar-12 4:58

thanks ryan for your replies. yes the web service is a different project. i did the web referencing and stuffs required to be brought in accordingly. but still the error exists.

ZurdoDev21-Mar-12 5:04

21-Mar-12 5:04

So, when you debug is searching null? If not, the error is happening inside the webmethod so you need a way to debug that. For example, add a try catch and write to a log.

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