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Windows 7 Compatibility with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions version 1

I recently tried to load a .NET 2.0 application that utilizes AJAX version 1 extensions on my Windows 7 x64 machine. At first I was prompted with a message indicating that I needed to turn CustomErrors off, because the application was not loading. So I modified the web.config and set the attribute to Off.

Then I try the application once again and it fails, pin pointing the problem to the System.Web.Extensions. So I research a little and find that there is a compatibility issue with Windows 7 x64 and ASP.NET AJAX Extensions version 1, but there is no issue with Windows 7 x86 according to Microsoft. Here is their article http://bit.ly/6h9AQ8

At the very bottom it recommended to modify the registry to enable the logging of Assembly binding, but it also mentioned that it would impact performance. So I opted not to. At this point there is nothing much that I can actually do until Microsoft releases a hotfix or update. Then again I suppose I can use VMWare Workstation 7 and run it on a VM machine.

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CSS Hover tips...

A previous professor of mine is still teaching me even though I am no longer in her class. I just learned a valuable CSS hover tip from the awesome Jennifer Campion of Interface Technical Training.

Normally in CSS when using Anchor Pseudo-classes you would have link 4 states.

a:link (equals the unvisited link state)
a:visited (equals the visited link state)
a:hover (equals the mouse over/hover link state)
a:active (equals the selected link state)

For the most part I would use a:link, a:visited and a:hover. However, when using it for a hover button I would only need to use a:link and a:hover. Which required two images. Well from what I recently learned, this is not the case anymore. Now you will only need to maintain one image file.

Before: two images
[Active image] 64X63

[Mouse over/Hover image] 64X63

Now: one image
[Active/Hover image all in one] 128X63

[CSS]

Notice the a#hovertest:hover on line 9 of the CSS file.

background-position: 64px 0;
It basically means on hover jump to the 64th pixel of the horizontal position and to the 0 pixel of the vertical position. Below is the zoomed in version of the all-in-one graphic to illustrate the horizontal and vertical positions.

[Zoomed Image]