March 10, 2009

Getting Around the 4MB Limit in ASP.NET

As many developers have found when uploading files from an FTP server or shared drive, by default, ASP.NET programs cannot upload a dataset from a file that exceeds 4MB. You can fix this by overriding the default value of 4MB in the web.config file. &lthttpRuntime executionTimeout=”420″ maxRequestLength=”40960″ /&gt Please note

Turn on Path Auto-Completion in DOS

It can be annoying to type long path names at the DOS command prompt. To avoid having to do so in Windows, you can enable DOS’s auto-completion feature, which is included with every Windows NT (and later) operating system. Here’s how to enable auto-completion: Go to the registry editor and