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Backup a SQL Server 2008 Database From a Shared Hosting Environment

SQL Server hosting is usually expensive so shared hosting is often used to keep costs down. With shared database hosting, and with shared web hosting, security is usually tighter and this leads to some standard functionality not being available. With SQL Server 2008 shared hosting the Back Up task is often disabled.

In this article we cover an alternative way to backup your database using the Generate Scripts and Export Data database tasks. Read More »

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WordPress Comments Feed for a Custom Post Type

We have already covered how to include custom posts in WordPress feeds. The changes made affect the comments feed and now will list comments for all post types. Read More »

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Using Additional Thumbnail Sizes in WordPress

WordPress already lets you specify different sizes for media files uploaded. The sizes thumbnail, medium and large are included and the image dimensions can be configured under the Tools > Media menu.

However, if you require more image sizes you can register them in functions.php using add_image_size() Read More »

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WordPress Feed for Custom Post Types

If you are using the new custom post types with WordPress you may have noticed that the custom posts do not automatically appear in your feed. Read More »

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Remove HTML with Regular Expressions

Working with websites you often need to strip out HTML tags, tag attributes or the complete contents of a HTML tag from some text. Regular expressions can make this very easy and so we thought we would share some that we use all the time. Read More »

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Preview Websites Before Making DNS Changes

If you are developing a new website you will often want to preview the website on its domain while keeping the old version running at the same time. Previewing the website allows you to properly test the website before going live and making DNS changes. Read More »

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Configuring DNS Records to use Google Apps for Email

It is quite easy to set up the required DNS records to use Google Apps with your own domain for email.

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Google Checkout Unsupported Shipping Countries

When trying to configure multiple countries with shipping restrictions for Google Checkout you might encounter the the following error:

The specified ShippingRestrictions result in an unsupported shipping area.

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mysql.data Incorrect number of arguments for PROCEDURE

The following error occurred while using the MySQL Connector for ASP.NET:

mysql.data Incorrect number of arguments for PROCEDURE 'stored procedure name' expected 3 got 2

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Nesting ASP.NET User Controls

While trying to nest ASP.NET user controls inside other user controls you may experience the following error:

The page ‘[control 1].ascx’ cannot use the user control ‘[control 2]‘, because it is registered in web.config and lives in the same directory as the page.

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