In IE8 the zindex by default return “auto”, but when zindex value has been set, the ASP.NET Menu control assumes a different value. To over come the white issue, just edit your stylesheet and enter zindex: 100; for the sub menu or any class or ID that you are using to specify the dropdown menu.

Cross browser compatibility struggle is getting upsetting while working with asp:Menu Server Control. Anyhow, It was not rendering/working well with Safari and Chrome. A bit of googling… and I have a solution for this. I have added below small piece of code snippet in my MasterPage’s Page_Load event if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf(“AppleWebKit”) > 0) { Request.Browser.Adapters.Clear(); } [...]

Here is an nice tip on how to clear the “Recent Project” list in your Visual Studio .NET : Close Visual Studio (if its open) GOTO > Start > Run > RegEdit GOTO > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\\ProjectMRUList remove unnecessary items from list. Similarly repeat the steps for FileMRuList GOTO > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\\FileMRUList remove unnecessary items from list. To [...]

After changing your sa password, your maintenance plan might stop working and you might face a problem where you cannot delete the maintenance plan or edit. If you are facing such problem with your MS SQL server Maintenance Plan when you change your sa account password. Follow the following steps: 1. Select msdb database 2. [...]

You need to enable the following features to make your MS SQL Server 2005 work with Vista/Windows 7 before installing MS SQl Server 2005. Here is the list of IIS 7 role services that need to be installed: Static Content Default Document HTTP Redirection Directory Browsing ASP.Net ISAPI Extension ISAPI Filters Windows Authentication (Not available [...]