Category Archives: Web Development

Conversion from string “” to type ‘Date’ is not valid

This error can be quite confusing.  Your application has probably been working fine and then all of a sudden you start getting this error when converting a valid date stored in a string into date data type.  What’s going on and how do you fix it?

Test for Java

When developing a website it’s easy to get in to the trap of testing for your favourite browser.  You may even test your site in  other browsers too but are you testing in the latest version of each browser?  If you are then everything may look to be great.  However there are still a lot

ASP.NET easy zip extract and archive

Searching on how to handle zip files in ASP.NET will result in lots of different techniques.  This post will show you how you can quickly extract or archive a zip file server side and without any laborious or complicated code.

Read and Write XML files – ASP.NET

XML is a great way to store data that doesn’t need the overhead of a database table. I usually find XML is great for storing configuration data for example. There’s the hard way to read and write XML but I’m going to show you the easy way.