Built on the Activedition platform, the FDA website ( www.fda.org.uk ) was highly commended at this year’s TUC Communications Awards , held on 1 July at Congress House in central London. According to the judges, the FDA website was only “narrowly pipped...

Built on the Activedition platform, C2 Software is delighted to announce that the National Counties Building Society ( www.ncbs.co.uk ) website is now live. National Counties Building Society is the UK's largest single office building society and...

Powered by the Activedition Content Management system, the Scottish Funding Council website www.sfc.ac.uk has gone live to a good response from users. The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) is the national, strategic body that...

HI.  firstly thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I work in the Client Solutions department at C2 as a Project Lead Engineer.  I have worked on many projects since I joined C2 in August 2007.  One of the things I am keen on is...

Regular Expression Validators for ASP.NET Below are common regular expression validators that you may use in your ASP.NET application Validating an Email Address: <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="EmailAddressRegularExpressionValidator"...

Tag parameters are parameters that can be set against a tag when they are placed on a page. The ascx page can then use the parameters to determine what the tag does / displays Example Code below: Activedition Tag <script runat=server language="VB">...

Ever wondered how to create an Activedition Sub Style? Is easy with Eddys one step guide! Simply open up the stylesheet that the page uses and insert the following code (this is an example - the important bits are the * begin AESTYLE */ and * end AESTYLE...

Are your sections in browse and edit not showing borders? dont despair! you have come to the right place! This is because of missing styles! These styles are usually found in Activeditions default stylesheet - so i am guessing your page doesnt reference...

This is a handy wee bit of vb.code to show dates in this format: 1st Jan 2008 2nd Jan 2008 3rd Jan 2008 4th Jan 2008 Dim startdate As Date = now() Dim strDay As String = startdate.ToString("dd") If Left(strDay, 1) = "0" Then strDay...

This code adds image rollover functionality to a imagebutton by adding an attribute to it. See below cod (its very simple) in code behind btnPrevious.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.src='/upload/paging_previoushover.gif';"...

If you see a funny glyph instead of the expected Pound signs on your web-page then you know you've got a mismatched character encoding and charset. I'll emphasise that again, the main consideration is to ensure that your charset and character...

Aberdeen City Council's website, built on the Activedition platfom, is the only local authority site in Scotland, and one of two in the UK, to be awarded the Accessibility+ mark from the Shaw Trust. Any website carrying this mark has been tested by...

Debugging the front end (the web page or User Interface) of an ASP.NET application is often a frustrating experience using tools such as MS Notepad and Internet Explorer but depending on what you are trying to achieve, there are a range of free tools...

Scenario Its a common scenario, you have a Functional Design Specification in front of you and it specifies that the web site you are about to build must by conformant with WCAG 1.0 to the AA standard (otherwise known as the Priority 2 checkpoints )....

Coalesce is a function in SQL. It returns the first non null expression from its arguments. MSDN use the following case statement to show its equivalent use CASE    WHEN (expression1 IS NOT NULL) THEN expression1    ...   ...