http://www.robinthomas.in Miscellaneous ramblings of a programmer.. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:45:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Task : You have a user control. And you want to loop through all the controls in that user control. You write the following code foreach (Control ctrl in control.Controls) { //Do your task. } And you are wrong. :) Reason : As you know, all the forms/Usercontrols have a control collection. A control collection may be a ... http://www.robinthomas.in/dotnet/loop-through-all-controls-in-a-user-control/ You may need to access a different model in a controller that it actually belongs to. For example you may have to access the model 'comment '  in a controller  'Post''. Or you may have to access the rating model inside you video Controller. Following are  three methods for using a different ... http://www.robinthomas.in/php/dynamically-loading-a-model-in-cake-php/ CKeditor/FCK Editor is  one of the world's best WYSIWYG editor. CKEditor provides built-in file management functions. (If you need a simple Rich Text Editor, I suggest you to use TinyMCE instead of  CKEditor) If you want to integrate CKEditor to your CakePHP page, then follow the below steps. Integrating CKEditor with CakePHP. Step 1 : Download ... http://www.robinthomas.in/php/ckeditor-cakephp/ Situation:  Not able to access http://localhost/ after installing WAMP. Here is the story. You Install WAMP server. WAMP installation successful. You are happy. Trying to access the localhost from the wamp menu. You are redirected to a URL similar to this. http://localhost/localstart.asp Scratching your head and saying WTF :) Reason: Some other application is ... http://www.robinthomas.in/general/installing-iis-and-apache-in-same-machine/ I have been using reliance wimax broadband for the last 8 months .. I think 8 months are more than enough to write a review about a product/service. So here it goes... In a single sentence let me describe Reliance Wimax broadband service .. "Worst Broadband service in Chennai". First let us ... http://www.robinthomas.in/internet/reliance-wimax-chennai/ I got very serious memory loss. Started forgetting everything. So i just listed the names of my old room mates with whom i stayed atleast for one month. Taliparamba - Kerala  +2 Hostel Room mates --------- Melvin Renjith Bangalore - Degree - Diary Circle --------- Mathew Roney Jose Bangalore - SG Palaya --------- Jinoy Aju Bangalore - Maruthi Nagar --------- Kiran Bidhu Francis Joesh Dileep Timmy Rufus Jijo Vinay Manu Mathayi Safvan Rahul Bangalore - 2 months during MCA --------- Sujith James Prince Jinoy Binu sir Jijo Joseph Pune ... http://www.robinthomas.in/personal/my-old-room-mates/ Many of the Windows users don't like to install the applications in the windows installation Drive.Usually people keep their Windows Operating System in C drive and the Softwares in D:\Program Files. But whenever a new application is installed, the default path is C:\Program Files. And you usually change the path manually ... http://www.robinthomas.in/general/change-default-installation-directory-in-windows/ Is it possible to access files in the client side using a web application/browser ? Answer : Yes. It is possible. But only on certain conditions. Download sample Code here 1) The below code works only in IE. 2) You need to change your security settings in IE to Low. Select Tools -> Internet Options in ... http://www.robinthomas.in/javascript/access-client-side-files-in-browser/ Problem: User Logs out.  User is redirected to signout page User click back button. The previous page is displayed. How is it possible to prevent the user from visiting the previous pages after logout ? Reason: The previous pages are cached in Browser. When u click the back button the pages are served directly from your ... http://www.robinthomas.in/dotnet/restrict-user-go-back-to-previous-page-after-signout/ StringBuilder or String Concatenation.. Is there any real performance issue in string concatenation ? When should I use StringBuilder ? To answer these questions, first lets examine the difference between String and StringBuilder classes. What is the difference between String and StringBuilder? String is immutable while StringBuilder is mutable. After a string object ... http://www.robinthomas.in/dotnet/stringbuilder-vs-string-concatenations/