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ASP.NET Google AutoComplete (or AutoSuggest)

December 7, 2005 by Tom Leave a Comment

A while back I wrote a post on an inventory of existing javascript autocomplete controls. I was writing an application that required one and found most of them to be unsuitable for what I was doing. I ended up using WICK (Web Input Completion Kit) an creating my own ASP.NET user control around it.

An article just came out in CodeProject, however that claims to do everything I was looking for. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but when I do, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Here’s the article: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AddingGoogleSuggest.asp

Clean or Fix Word’s Funky Characters

December 5, 2005 by Tom 2 Comments

Word tends to autocorrect and insert special characters that look good, but don’t work when put on a web page. They end up looking like this: ‘ “test�?.

If you write your blog posts in word and then paste them into your blog, you’ll often times get those funky characters. Here is an explanation as to why it does this and how to avoid it.

To avoid having to spend time searching and replacing numerous word documents I needed to add to the web, I wrote a tool that does it for me. Here it is: Clean Word’s Funky Characters.

VBScript Array Length

November 21, 2005 by Tom 12 Comments

Apparently there is no direct method to determine the length of an array in VBScript. The best way I could find is to use UBound(ArrayName). This will return the upper limit of the array. Unfortunately, it doesn’t account for empty items in the array. In the example below Length will be equal to 10, not 1.

Dim NewArray(10) NewArray(0) = "Apple" Length = UBound(NewArray) 'Length is equal to 10, not 1

Here is a good link to VBScript Array functions.

http://www.shocknet.org.uk/defpage.asp?pageID=30

If you know of a better way to determine the length, please let me know.