April 2008

  • “System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory” When using Image.FromFile(imageFile)

    When I was populating an System.Drawing.Image object from a folder of images I revceived the following error message:“System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory”At first I thought I had a very large image in this folder, but realised after reading the blog post:Image.FromFile(“…”) and System.OutOfMemoryException,that I had a file in the folder that was not an image type…

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  • Cross Browser Support for DOM Events

    Firefox follows the DOM standard and passes an event object to each event listener, however has the global event: windows.event. Problem:I wanted to fire a piece of javascript after the user keyed some text and pressed enter or clicked a button. The skeleton code is below:<input id=”NewsletterEmail” value=”Email here” type=”text”   onfocus=”javascript:this.value = ”;” class=”WiderLoginTextBox” /><input value=”OK”…

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