Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects

Filthy Rich Clients refers to ultra-graphically rich applications that ooze cool. They suck the user in from the outset and hang on to them with a death grip of excitement. Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications shows you how to build better, more effective, cooler desktop applications.

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Download Book on Microsoft Expression Web

Get a jump start on using this brand-new Web creation tool from Microsoft. Built from the ground up using current Web standards, Expression Web make it easy to create pages that look good in all browsers. Mirroring the program’s focus on standards, the book shows you how to use Cascading Style Sheets to build consistent, easy to navigate designs.

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A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

It means that you can't post values containing HTML ( or script ) tags to the server. In other words - if you have a textbox and the visitor enters something like
< script> alert('a') < "/ script> and then presses Submit button this error will occur since the posted value(s) contains HTML tags.,it's for security reasons.to prevent this you can add a tag validateRequest="false" into the Page-directive on top of the page you want users to be able to input HTML and script tag or you can write in the web.config fileit will affect all pages on your site.You can read more at ASP.Net site.

Encrypting Text using DESCryptoServiceProvider

While creating a User Account form on your website, you probably need to store users information like username, email address and password in your database.If you are storing user passwords in unencrypted form then if someone compromises your database they have access to the passwords for every user.
I am writing some code snippet that will do the encrypting for you, using DESCryptoServiceProvider, you can find this object under System.Security.Cryptography.

'Encrypt the text
Public Shared Function EncryptText(ByVal strText As String) As String
Return Encrypt(strText, "&%#@?,:*")
End Function

'Decrypt the text
Public Shared Function DecryptText(ByVal strText As String) As String
Return Decrypt(strText, "&%#@?,:*")
End Function

'The function used to encrypt the text
Private Shared Function Encrypt(ByVal strText As String, ByVal strEncrKey As String) As String
Dim byKey() As Byte = {}
Dim IV() As Byte = {&H12, &amp;H34, &H56, &H78, &H90, &HAB, &HCD, &HEF}
Try
byKey = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Left(strEncrKey, 8))
Dim des As New DESCryptoServiceProvider
Dim inputByteArray() As Byte = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(strText)
Dim ms As New MemoryStream
Dim cs As New CryptoStream(ms, des.CreateEncryptor(byKey, IV),CryptoStreamMode.Write)
cs.Write(inputByteArray, 0, inputByteArray.Length)
cs.FlushFinalBlock()
Return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray())
Catch ex As Exception
Return ex.Message
End Try
End Function

'The function used to decrypt the text

Private Shared Function Decrypt(ByVal strText As String, ByVal sDecrKey As String) As String
Dim byKey() As Byte = {}
Dim IV() As Byte = {&H12, &amp;H34, &H56, &H78, &H90, &HAB, &HCD, &HEF}
Dim inputByteArray(strText.Length) As Byte
Try
byKey = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Left(sDecrKey, 8))
Dim des As New DESCryptoServiceProvider
inputByteArray = Convert.FromBase64String(strText)
Dim ms As New MemoryStream
Dim cs As New CryptoStream(ms, des.CreateDecryptor(byKey, IV), CryptoStreamMode.Write)
cs.Write(inputByteArray, 0, inputByteArray.Length)
cs.FlushFinalBlock()
Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
Return encoding.GetString(ms.ToArray())

Catch ex As Exception
Return ex.Message
End Try
End Function

Using XML file as a Database

To make my Application Database independent, I have Explored using XML file as an storage instead of using database.
Have a look at My Article , I have posted it at CodeProject.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WritingDataInXMLFile.asp

Uploading Image and Creating Water Mark

Uploading Image and Creating Water Mark

Dim MyFile As HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile = CType(Page.FindControl("File1"), HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile)
Dim fileName As String = MyFile.PostedFile.FileName.Substring

(MyFile.PostedFile.FileName.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)
Dim image As System.Drawing.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(MyFile.PostedFile.InputStream)
MyFile.PostedFile.SaveAs(filePath)
Dim bitmap_Large As Bitmap = New Bitmap(image)
Dim bitmap_Thumb As Bitmap = New Bitmap(image, 118, 118)
Dim GraphicsWriter As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap_Large)
Dim stringFormat As New StringFormat
stringFormat.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.DirectionVertical GraphicsWriter.SmoothingMode = Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.AntiAlias GraphicsWriter.FillRectangle(Brushes.Green, 0, 0, 25, bitmap_Large.Height) GraphicsWriter.DrawString("Copyright MyDomain.com " & DateTime.Now.Year, New Font("Verdana", 12, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.White, New PointF(0, (bitmap_Large.Height / 2) - 122), stringFormat)
bitmap_Large.Save(MapPath("..\upload\Large\" & FileName & ".jpg"), image.RawFormat)
bitmap_Thumb.Save(MapPath("..\upload\thumb\" & FileName & ".jpg"), image.RawFormat)

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