How to Create or Modify PDF Form in ASP.net

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:41 Written by David Bauernschmidt Monday, 4 March 2013 12:00

It seems like regularly something comes up in the programming world that is requested by a client that should be easy, ends up proving to take more time, more money or both. So it is nice to find a solution to a problem that IS easy. This article is to show you how easy it is to use ASP.net web form to open up a PDF, set a value on a form and then send it back to the user’s browser. I have attached the project below if you want to download it. The first thing you need to do is go download iTextSharp.dll. I will be using visual basic (vb) for this project.

How to Conditionally Load Google Analytics in a Web Application

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 08:44 Written by David Bauernschmidt Saturday, 2 March 2013 12:00

If you are a developer that uses Google Analytics in your ASP.net web applications then you know that loading up the Google Analytics in your web page should not happen when you are building the application. In the past I have always just commented out the section for Google Analytics until publishing the site. Then I would go in and uncomment the lines. This works if you do not forget to uncomment the lines in production. (This happened to me).

I decided that there had to be a better way to automatically do this. After searching the internet and pulling together prior knowledge of how an asp.net web site works I decided to use the web.config to help me. First add the following lines to your web.config production transformation file. (See here if you do not understand the transformation idea).

How to Send Email Notifications in WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Friday, 28 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 28 December 2012 12:00

In this article, I will give you a step by step guide on how to send an email notification from WebsitePanel.

1. Sign into your WebsitePanel

2. Click on Scheduled Task:

How to Send Your Files to a FTP Server with WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:00

In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to send your files to a your ftp server with WebsitePanel

1. Log into your WebsitePanel.

2. Click on Scheduled Task:

How to Activate Perl in Virtual Directories with WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:00

Many users are wondering if their perl scripts will be able to work under our windows hosting. We do support Perl on our Windows Hosting. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to activate Perl in a virtual directory with WebsitePanel

1. Log into your WebsitePanel.

2. Click on Websites: