Month: October 2009

Q-Dir – Multi-Pane File Manager :: the How-To Geek

I found when I was updating our web site I would run a VB script to open three Explorer windows. I have chosen to use Q-Dir to replace the script since it actually does a better job with screen real estate and allows me to open four windows. I use the the portable version to avoid installation headaches.

Sometimes when looking through a file manager, it would be nice to have more than a dual-pane view. Now you can manage your files with up to four viewing panes at once with Q-Dir.

Note: Q-Dir is available in regular install and portable versions.

Q-Dir – Multi-Pane File Manager :: the How-To Geek

Dumping raw XML using ASP

When working on other people’s code it sometimes difficult to figure where the data is coming from and you really don’t have the time to spend figuring it out. We were having a problem with an ASP page that was blowing up when a certain XML field was empty so I wanted to simple command to dump the raw XML. Either the XML field had a different name or it wasn’t in the XML file. I knew the command must exist but it was surprising difficult to find. Here is what I used to dump an XML object called xmlData.

response.write xmlData.documentElement.xml

OBTW the element was not in the XML file.