CHMOD, UNIX Permission

I tried to find a good example of how to give all permissions in chmod.
They are very hard to find.

If you want to give all permissions to all files in a directory type

chmod 777 * for all files without an extention
chomd 777 *.* for all files with an extention

hope this helps.

ASP.NET MVC Html.DropDownList

It took me a little while to figure out how to add custom items to an ASP.net MVC Html dropdownlist.  

It takes an IEnumerable of type SelectedList, not just any IEnumerable.  What I had to do was create a List and then make a SelectedList and put that List in the selected list for it to work.

Like this:

ASP.NET MVC usercontrol

There are a few things I found out about ASP.Net MVC user controls.

1. The user control cannot be contained in asp:content blocks.  The code must be in "the open".

2. You can pass the ViewData as a parameter.

3. To render the user control you must:

4. You do not need the '.ascx' after the name of the view.

ASP.NET MVC HTML helpers attributes

In order to set attributes for html elements using

"Html.ActionLink(, , , )"

The attributes should be like

new { @attribute=value, ...})

an example of this would be:

new { @id=doneID, @class="invisible"})

The "doneID" is a string variable that was defined earlier in the ' ' of the page.

The @class value is just a string.

ASP.NET MVC Masterpage Image

I had a problem trying to figure out a way to display an image on a master page and have that image display on all child pages.

I could get it to show the image on all child pages in the IDE, but when I would publish, the image would not show.

My problem was fixed by creating a "class" in my Site.css file.
You can put this code anywhere in that file, but it would be good practice to group classes by logical function.

/*
SAMPLE
*/
.photo-container
{
padding:10px;
border:1px dotted #7a7a7a;
}

To display the image in the master page, this code worked for me.

Make a "div", make the "div" "class='photo-container'". style="width:auto;"> "img src="../../[Folder]/ [File].jpg" />

Type the code where you want your image to be. I hope this helps.

In The Beginning...

This is my first blog post.

The purpose of this blog is to show and explain technical ideas and coding algorithms.

I have a "dark" them, because that is what I code in. I find it easier on the eyes.

Thanks,

Rybo