Sure, they have an extremely large 3rd party/open source community behind them but wow, is this software backward in terms of usability and manageability. I'm doing some work on http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/ and this is like working with Wordpress software from 3-5 years ago. [More]

For merchants running AspDotNetStorefront who aren’t regularly running the Monthly Maintenance routines, you might find yourself in a situation similar to one of our clients where the size of the transaction log for their SQL database had grown large enough that their site was shut down because it couldn’t grow any more. In this case, since we couldn’t access the admin section of the site to run the monthly maintenance, I was able to run the following commands in order to clear the transaction log to the point of the last backup AND then shrink the physical size of the SQL database files. [More]

From within your storefront's "Run SQL" option under "Configuration" | "Advanced" (or from within SQL Mangler, I mean Manager, enter the following command: [More]

Granting Google AdWords professionals access to your Google AdWords account in order to assist you in managing your campaigns is a fairly simple procedure, if you do it right. Protect yourself and learn how to do it at the same time using the instructions in the form below. [More]

The latest version of InfusionSoftDotNet library to enable Dot Net applications and Asp.Net web applications access the InfusionSoft API was released this morning on CodePlex at http://infusionsoftdotnet.codeplex.com. One of the biggest changes in this version of the code is the addition of _LastException property to the isdnAPI class to allow you to retrieve any exception thrown during an API call. (Thank cchubb!). This release is available in full source or as binaries with a sample Asp.Net application. This version will work with Asp.net v2.0 and up. [More]

Google has finally allowed Google Apps customers to take advantage of Google+ . Here are some quick tips on how to get this up and running in your Google Apps account AND get your users signed up! [More]

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I’m sure you’ve been there before. You (or your customer) have gone in and added all your products and defined which products go with which stores but then decided after the fact that you want to have a manufacturer’s page (or menu) that shows all the manufacturers of products that exist in a give store on your Multi-Store solution. Read on to find the SQL command to make this a painless problem... [More]

Ever tried getting Asp.Net 4.0 application to run as a child app under Asp.Net 2.0 or 3.5? Wanna make it tougher? Try it under IIS 6! Well, the secret sauce is hear if you want to find out how to do it! [More]

Has putting YouTube videos on your website embarrassed you by being so bold as to insist on being in front of other elements on your website? This is a common problem seen across the Internet daily. However, just ‘cause main people suffer from this ailment doesn’t mean that you have to. The resolution to this problem doesn’t rely on setting Z-Index or anything fancy, just making some small changes to the original code provided by YouTube to embed the video. [More]