Newest KB Articles in Third Party Applications/Tools

Persits ASPEmail Information

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:25:16 GMT

Persists AspEmail component is an active server component for sending e-mail messages using an external SMTP server in an ASP or ASP.NET application (through a wrapper object).

AspEmail 5.0 supports multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, HTML format, embedded images and sounds, non-US ASCII character sets and secure mail.

More information:

User manual: http://www.aspemail.com/manual_01.html
Main Web site: http://www.aspemail.com

Persits ASPEmail sample code

    
            <html> 
        
            <head> 
        
            </head> 
        
            <body> 
        
            <% 
        
            Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender") 
        
            Mailer.Host = "mail.mydomain.com" 
        
            Mailer.Username = "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
        
            Mailer.Password = "password" 
        
            Mailer.FromName   = "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
        
            Mailer.From= "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
        
            Mailer.AddAddress "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
        
            Mailer.Subject    = "This is a sample email sent from Persits ASPEMail" 
        
            Mailer.Body   = "Congratulation" & VbCrLf & "If you receive this is, your mail component works" 
        
            ' catch errors 
        
            On Error Resume Next 
        
            Mailer.Send 
        
            If Err <> 0 Then ' error occurred 
        
                  Response.Write "Mail send failure. Error was " & Err.Description 
        
            else 
        
                 Response.Write "Mail sent..." 
        
            End If 
        
            %> 
        
            </body> 
        
            </html>

Do you support Persits ASPEmail Message Queuing feature?

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:23:10 GMT

We do not support message queuing for Persits AspEmail.

If you enable message queuing in your application, you will see this error message “No path specified and no default value found in the registry.”

More information:

User manual: http://www.aspemail.com/manual_01.html
Main web site: http://www.aspemail.com

Persits ASPJpeg Information

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:21:42 GMT

AspJpeg is a high-quality image thumbnail component that can resize images on-the-fly. Features include:

    * Supports JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PNG formats. Output format is always JPEG.
    * Source images can be opened from disk, memory, or a recordset.
    * Resized images can be saved to disk, memory or an HTTP stream.
    * Supports three resizing algorithms: nearest-neighbor, bilinear, and bicubic.
    * Drawing and typing on top of an image. Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
    * Automatic word wrapping, text alignment to the left, right, center and justified, rotation.
    * Picture-in-picture support.
    * Cropping, flipping, rotation, sharpening, grayscale conversion.
    * Compression rate of output images can be adjusted for optimal quality/file size ratio.
    * EXIF and IPTC metadata extraction from JPEG images.
    * CMYK-to-RGB conversion.
    * Sepia filter.
    * Read/write access to individual pixels of an image.
    * PNG alpha channel support.
    * GIF transparency support.
    * Brightness, contrast and saturation adjustment.

More information:

For more information: http://www.aspjpeg.com
For Live Demo: http://www.aspjpeg.com/livedemo.html

Sample code to resize an image with ASPJpeg 1.8.

You will need to customize the imagePath and image_name variables. See comments in code.

    
            <HTML> 
        
            <HEAD> 
        
            <TITLE>AspJpeg - Simple.asp</TITLE> 
        
            </HEAD> 
        
            <BODY> 
        
            <% 
        
             ' Path and name to the location of the image file 
        
             imagePath = "/images" 
        
             image_name = "images.jpg" 
        
             ' Name of the resized image file 
        
             new_image_filename = "clock_small.jpg" 
        
             ' Create instance of AspJpeg 
        
             Set Jpeg = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Jpeg") 
        
             ' Compute path to source image 
        
             Path = Server.MapPath(imagePath & "/" & image_name) 
        
             ' Open source image 
        
             Jpeg.Open Path 
        
             ' Decrease image size by 50% 
        
             JpegJpeg.Width = Jpeg.OriginalWidth / 2 
        
             JpegJpeg.Height = Jpeg.OriginalHeight / 2 
        
             ' Apply sharpening if necessary 
        
             Jpeg.Sharpen 1, 130 
        
             ' create thumbnail and save it to disk 
        
             Jpeg.Save Server.MapPath(imagePath & "/" & new_image_filename) 
        
            %> 
        
            Original Image:<BR> 
        
            <IMG SRC="<%=imagePath & "/" & image_name%>"><P> 
        
            Thumbnail (50% reduction):<BR> 
        
            <IMG SRC="<%=imagePath & "/" & new_image_filename%>"><P> 
        
            <% 
        
             Response.Write "<HR>AspJpeg expires on " & Jpeg.Expires 
        
            %> 
        
            </BODY> 
        
            </HTML>

Persits ASPUpload Information and sample code

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:16:36 GMT

Sample code for Persits ASPUpload.

How to generate a Google Sitemap

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:10:55 GMT

The "Sitemap Generator" provided by Google is a console script written in Python and is intended to be executed on the console to generate the sitemap.

Unfortunately, this is not supported with our service because:

Python is not installed on our serves
Unlike a UNIX host, it is not possible for customers to execute shell commands on our servers
The Sitemap file is just a simple text file that follows several formats (OAI-PMH v2.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3)

According to Google, it is possible to write your own program to generate the needed sitemap file. See https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html.

Alternatively, there are a number of freely available services/tools to generate a Sitemap file. For example:
http://www.sitemapspal.com
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=10538

How to install DotNetNuke 5.x on WinHost servers

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:38:22 GMT

Below is a step by step installation procedure to install DotNetNuke portal version 5.x on WinHost servers.

We do not support the DotNetNuke Portal software. If you run into installation problems, you are welcome to use our forum or the ASP.net forums for peer support. DotNetNuke is very resource intensive in its default installation! We recommend disabling any modules or features that you do not intend to use.

Note: The following instructions are written for DNN 5.0.0. Other versions may have some slight differences.

A) Get DotNetNuke 5.x and upload to web server

Download DotNetNuke 5.x "Install" Version from DotNetNuke.com
Extract the content to your local machine

B) Customizing the web.config file

Open the Web.config file with any text editor.
Update the database connection information

1) In the <connectionStrings> section

Replace:

    
            <connectionStrings> 
        
              <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express --> 
        
              <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> 
        
              <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 
        
              <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> 
        
              --> 
        
            </connectionStrings>

with:

    
            <!-- Connection String for SQL Server --> 
        
              <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="THE ENTIRE CONNECTION STRING LOCATED IN THE SQL SECTION OF YOUR CONTROL PANEL" /> 
        
            </connectionStrings>

2) In the <appSettings> section

Replace:

    
            <appSettings> 
        
              <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules   --> 
        
              <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;" />

with:

    
            <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=tcp:YOUR SQL SERVER NAME;Initial Catalog=YOUR SQL DABASE NAME;User ID=YOUR SQL USERNAME;Password=YOUR SQL DABASE PASSWORD" />

To avoid any conflicts, we recommend using a fresh database for the application install.

C) Upload all the files to your web site account. We recommend uploading DotNetNuke into a subdirectory. We DO NOT recommend uploading DotNetNuke to your document root directory.

D) Create an Application Starting Point

Log into your Control Panel
Navigate to the Application Starting Point tool (under Site Tools)
Create the Application Starting Point

E) DotNetNuke Setup

Open your browser and navigate to http://www.HostingAccountDomain.com/DotNetNuke_subdirectory

DotNetNuke will setup all the database objects when it first loads. This process MAY run for several minutes. DO NOT hit the stop button on the browser

Warning: If you install DotNetNuke in your document root directory, your other .NET applications under the root may fail.

For more information on DotNetNuke, you can review the documentation under the /documentation directory/. For DotNetNuke support, please visit ASP.NET Forums.