Category Archives: Development

Windows: Don’t update Google Chrome (i.e. disable auto update)

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By default Google Chrome will update to the latest version automatically. It is however possible to disable this and instead update manually (when needed/wanted).

Note: This means you will not get security updates as threats are found and these get fixed – so this might be a bad idea to do if you don’t plan to update manually.

Open up a registry editor and check if the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update” exists, otherwise create it (the key is the tree structure in regedit).
Now enter a Key name “DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue ” as a DWORD and give it the value “1”.
This will keep Google Chrome from auto updating.

Setting up JAVA_HOME on Window

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The JAVA_HOME variable should point to the JDK’s bin folder in order for Java applications (jar, war, etc) to know where Java lives.

To setup a JAVA_HOME environment variable on Windows.

  • Right click on the My Computer icon in the start menu or on the desktop and select properties
  • Click the Advanced Tab
  • Click the Environment Variables button
  • Under System Variable, click New
  • Enter the variable name as JAVA_HOME
  • Enter the variable value as the install path for the Development Kit
  • Click OK
  • Click Apply Changes

Word of caution, Java is not fond of spaces, so I use pathnames without spaces.

Note: You will need to click OK, apply changes AND reload cmd to see the changes there.

FireFox 2.x don’t show the session restore window

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When FireFox 2.x came out it was the first version that introduced session restore if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).

This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” and setting this to false

Also you probably want to check out the startup options under “Tools->Options->When Firefox starts”

(This can also be used to show the session restore window by setting the “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” to true)

Note: This can also be used with Flock versions 2.6.x as that is based on FireFox

PHP raw POST data

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To read the raw data being posted to a php page (for instance when $_POST is empty due to problems with encoding types or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not being readable due to php.ini settings) reading file_get_contents is a nice solution.

$postData = file_get_contents('php://input');

Adding htmlattributes to a ActionLink

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To add htmlattributes to a ActionLink might be needed for instance for the layout of the page.

@Html.ActionLink("Link text", "action", "Controller", null, new {style="float:left"})
//Adding a css class (need the @sign as class is a keyword for the compiler). It is also possible to use a Capitol C in Class but then it fails some validations.
@Html.ActionLink("Link text", "action", "Controller", null, new {@class="myCssClassName"})
 
//the syntax for the Html.ActionLink (used in this example is)
public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(
	string linkText,
	string actionName,
	string controllerName,
	RouteValueDictionary routeValues,
	IDictionary<string, Object> htmlAttributes
)

C# MVC# create a URI from a Url.Action

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Sometimes the need arises to create a URI object instead of just a link. This can be done by using Url.Action.

new Uri(Url.Action("action", "controller", null, Request.Url.Scheme))
 
//definitions 
public Uri(
	string uriString
)
 
public string Action(
	string actionName,
	string controllerName,
	Object routeValues,
	string protocol
)

Specifying what area an ActionLink should use

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Using routevalues you can tell the html helper what area you want to create a action link to.

//create a link that will go to AreaName
Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "AreaName" }, new{})
//Default area (= no area)
Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "" }, new{})
 
//create a link that will go to AreaName and with some htmlAttributes
Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Area = "AreaName" }, new{@class="myCssClass"})
 
 
//Definition
public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(
	string linkText,
	string actionName,
	string controllerName,
	RouteValueDictionary routeValues,
	IDictionary<string, Object> htmlAttributes
)