Monday 21 May 2012

How to Uninstall IE8 from windows XP SP2

To uninstall Internet Explorer 8, follow these steps:
  • Carefully select and then copy the following command: %windir%\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe
  • Click Start, and then click Run.
  • In the Open box, type Cmd.exe, and then press Enter.
  • Right-click inside the Cmd.exe window, and then click Paste to paste the command that you copied in step 1.
  • Press Enter to uninstall Internet Explorer 8.
  • After the program is removed, restart your computer.

Friday 11 May 2012

jQuery how to FadeOut() then Remove()

How to stop click events firing on child divs

If you have multiple divs stacked on top of each other, and all divs are selectable (ui-selectable) you can stop the click events bubbling down to the lower level by adding event.stopPropagation() to the click event of the top most div. eg:

Sunday 6 May 2012

Deserialize json object with a date time to a c sharp oject

If you want to deserialize and object that has been serialized with the JavaScriptSerializer and it contains a date time object then you may run into a parser / format error for the date time. this can be fixed by doing a replace on the string before deserializing.