The default seems to be set to 2048 but the following list on MSDN lists all of the language codes available.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221435

Of course, the language can be set in a number of different ways, either using the ASPLCID code in the MetaBase.xml, by changing the culture information on the pages or through the web.config.

See the following article:

The main codes used for most english speaking developers will be
English Australia 3081 (&HC09)
English Canadian 4105 (&H1009)
English U.K. 2057 (&H809)
English U.S. 1033 (&H409)

There is also this MSDN link here:

“Thank you for contacting us.

I would like to apologize because I really have no idea with regards to
scripting and it is not part of our support anymore. I will just give
you the link regarding the AJAX tutorial, I hope this can help you.

http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp”

Can 1and1 really call this support???

Its difficult remembering the structure of the web.config file and also what each configuration section/items are available and what they mean.  I often refer to previous versions of my web.config in order to understand which bits I need to add to get the desired functionality in my web app.

Here MSDN details all of the sections and the web.config file: MSDN web.config Info

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For one thing, you only install the development tools that you *really* need and you get the chance to install newer releases of the software. This got me into creating a tools folder on my development machine with all the newest tools that I think are indespensable. Then I can burn this to a CD or DVD to take home and install on my development machine.

Since I’m also a lowely developer without a big budget, the more free/open-source software I can use which will boost my productivity, the better. So I’m going to build this into my list of must have tools.

I’m still building this list up and I might even make this available for download just like a Linux distro in an ISO format! For now I will make this list available as a download list. The ultimate would be to have a complete set of developer power tools which are free/open-source so I’ve tried to do this where possible, but you can’t always have your cake & eat it!

Must have development tools

AJAX control kit
JQuery
SQL Express
Subsonic
Visual Web Developer Express
Notepad++
CruiseControl.NET

This list is by no means comprehensive, but I will add to it if I discover others. I’d be interested in getting your thoughts for a list of useful and much-needed power tools too!

The first thing you need is a listbox of countries from where they can select from. To save you time and energy, there is no need to type out every single country into the listbox. This would be a real test of your geographical knowledge!

Follow these simple steps:

1. Drop a listbox control onto your ASP page.
2. Drop an XML datasource control onto your ASP page.
3. Download and copy the countries.xml file into your project (preferably into your app_data folder).
4. Click on the XML datasource smart tag (the small arrow) and wire-up the datasource to your XML File
Note: You have to do a refresh on your project files by right clicking on your folder or root folder in the solution explorer followed by refresh before the XML file will been seen by the XML datasource.

5. Bind the listbox to your XML datasource and voila!

The only problem with this method is that because the country code is stored as inner text within each XML node, the only values than can be shown in your listbox is the ISO code and the 2 letter country code.  Not much use to you really!  You could either change the format of this XML file or access the inner text of each node.

To do this check out Mads Kristensen’s blog. He’s provided a method to programmatically populate the listbox in ASP code behind. Check out his blog here…

As of publishing this blog, the web hosting company that I’ve hosted several projects with has been 1and1, and I’ve used a handful of other web hosting companies.  I really am not sure which hosting companies seem to be the best, its a bit of a minefield.  There are so many factors to consider such as reliability, uptime, available features and one that I think is most important is support.  If support is not great, then when you run into problems this can be a real nightmare.

Recently, I was about to start a new project and wanted to start using AJAX technology to get the project up and running.  Unfortunately the web hosting company 1and1 told me that they don’t support AJAX.  A major company like 1and1 not supporting a major technology like AJAX?

Fair enough, AJAX is a relatively new technology but there are other companies that are supporting it.  So I repeatedly ask them whether they were certain, and I got varying answers.  At one point they said they did, and silly me, trying to be optimistic, went ahead building my website using AJAX.  When it came to deploy to the server, low and behold none of my AJAX pages worked!  So I shouldn’t have believed them after all!!  I had to rip out all my AJAX components from the pages to get it working.

So for my next project I’ve learnt my lesson.  Only believe they support a technology if they explicitly state it on their list of supported features on their packages.

In fact I’m going to try a different web hosting company this time.  2 other companies I’ve had quite good experience with are Hosting UK and Fast Hosts.  Both have quite reasonable support and both support AJAX.

I’ll let you know how I get on!

Well I was already hosting his web site, and he actually suggested me hosting his album too.  Simply by adding a obfuscated URL path to his current website address and then providing a few HTML pages with the thumbnails of his pictures, I could quite easily achieve that.

First thing I had to do is upload smaller versions of the photos, and I did this using Adobe Photoshop, using the Automated Batch facility to resize the files to 20% of their original size.

I then set out to produce the HTML & CSS, which was basically some very simple headers, a dark background and a special ‘Thumbnail’ DIV to hold each image, all floated left to ensure they all aligned next to each other.

Now I’ve seen this particular technique before on quite a few web pages and especially other galleries, sometimes used by professional photographers.  The technique is to click on a thumbnail and overlay the thumbnail with a larger pop-up of the image.  This is all achieved using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  I’m not a JavaScript guru, but there is quite a simple process to get this going.  Try this bit of kit at LightBox2!

The first thing is to ensure the code for this goes in the following event stub:

CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser

You then need to access your labels on the template. Heres how:

Dim lbl As Label
lbl = CreateUserWizard1.CompleteStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("lblUsername")
lbl.Text = etc....

As easy as that!