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Google I/O Live 2012

Can’t be there myself, so figured I’d post this up for you and for me to catch up on what’s new at Google I/O. Click through to the full article to view the keynote tomorrow morning…  

ASPDNSF v9.3 Released, What’s In It For You?

Yes, you heard that right. The much talked about v9.3 of AspDotNetStorefront has been released today.  However, is it right for you? In a word, Yes! This release incorporates not only a slew of code adjustments (aka bug fixes) that will benefit existing site owners but also two big new features as well as a …

Site Thumbnail with ASP.NET

I was doing some research recently on generating screenshots of web pages using an ASP.NET page and found a link to a post on DotNetClassic.com that appears to disappeared into the ether… Thanks to the magic of the WayBackMachine, this code lives on. I haven’t tried it yet but present it for your edification and …

InfusionSoft v1.0.1.1 Released

v1.0.1.1 of the InfusionSoftDotNet library has been released to support functions and changes related to the Spring 2012 release of InfusionSoft API as well as the latest CookComputing dll (v2.5.0) to handle the XMLRPC communications.   You can download the source code, pre-compiled binaries and or the History.txt file of all changes from http://infusionsoftdotnet.codeplex.com.

Easy Export to Excel with C#

Using a class provided by Chris on stackoverlow, I finally found a quick and dirty way to download data to a CSV file locally. By adding the attached class file, I was able to easily add a button to a report page, that when pressed, will load the each line of the CsvExport object into …

Printer Not Found In Quickbooks Point Of Sale Shipping Manager

Have you run into this problem? In Quickbooks Point of Sale v10 (or in various versions of Quickbook proper it appears) you might change over to the Shipping Manager and when you try and print you get the following error: Printer Not found: ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}HP Laser This appears to happen under Windows and may happen under …

Understanding How Rich Snippets & SEO

Try explaining rich snippets to some not totally versed in Internet technology and you’ll be lucky if all you get back is a blank stare. The following infographic does a great job of explaining what they are, and more importantly, what their benefit is to just about anyone with a website. Visual Guide to Rich …

USPS Rate and Rate V2 APIs to Expire Soon

If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business. If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on …

Beware of Setting WordPress Pages to Private

As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page. The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back …