CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[StripHtmlTags]
(
– Add the parameters for the function here
@HTMLText NVARCHAR(MAX)
)
RETURNS NVARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN

DECLARE @Start INT
DECLARE @End INT
DECLARE @Length INT

SET @Start = CHARINDEX(‘<’,@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX(‘>’,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘<’,@HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1

WHILE @Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(‘<’,@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX(‘>’,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘<’,@HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1
END

RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@HTMLText))

END

Example Use:

Execute StripHtmlTags('my <b>html filled</b> string');

Note: The use of MAX is allowed on MS SQL 2005 or newer versions of MS SQL servers. To use it with MS SQL versions older then 2005 (e.g. 2000) replace the MAX with a number for example 1500.

Here is a short list of some major places you can sell your products. Remember this is not an elaborated talk on them.

Your E-Commerce Site
Although you can control the shopping experience and other aspects of your business, its really tough to market and make money. Specially it takes quite a bit of time and effort to get people come to your site and get used to shopping.

EBay
Largest marketplace of all. Your products would be visible to a huge ebay audience.

Amazon
Amazon is a great marketplace. Although not as big as eBay, it still a giant marketplace.

Google Base
Its free to use. You can upload your products and make them indexed on Google for people to search.

Shopping Comparison Sites
Most of them charge money to list products. Here are some major ones to mention:

• Shopzilla
• Bizrate
• Shopping.com
• Ciao
• Price Savvy
• Next Tag
• Kelkoo
• Price Grabber
• Price Runner

So check out the site http://www.shoppingcosmo.com/

WebResponse result = null;
string output = “”;

try
{
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(“http://www.website.com/filename.txt”);
result = req.GetResponse();
Stream ReceiveStream = result.GetResponseStream();
Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(“utf-8″);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ReceiveStream, encode);
Char[] read = new Char[256];
int count = sr.Read(read, 0, read.Length);
while (count > 0)
{
String str = new String(read, 0, count);
output += str;
count = sr.Read(read, 0, read.Length);
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
Response.Write(“get failed”);
}
if (result != null)
{
result.Close();
}

Response.Write(output);

Example:

Lets say you have three classes

.a {..}
.b{..}
.c{..}

To apply them on a single div tag:

<div>
…..
</div>

So how you add the additional ip address to your windows server?

These steps are for Windows Server 2003.

• Click on Start button
• Open Cotnrol Panel
• Open Network connections
• Select Local Area Connection (for first Ethernet card)
• Right Click and select Properties
• Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• Now click on Properties button
• Click on Advanced tab
• Now you need to add in an IP address section Enter IP details such as IP address, Subnetmask etc
• Save the changes and go back to Windows server desktop

These steps are for Windows Server 2008.

• Click on Start button
• Open Cotnrol Panel
• Click on Network and Sharing Center
• Click on Manage Network Connections
• Right Click on the active network icon  and select Properties
• Select Internet Protocol Version (TCP/IP). There may be more then version. For me there are 4 and 6. Mine one is at 4.
• Now click on Properties button
• Click on Advanced tab
• Now you need to add in an IP address section Enter IP details such as IP address, Subnetmask etc
• Save the changes and go back to Windows server desktop

After that you need to verifty that new settings are working. This is how you do that:

• Open command prompt
• Click on Start button
• Select Run
• Type cmd and press enter
• Type the following command at DOS prompt: ipconfig /all

Here are the maximum int value in MS SQL server.

bigInt -9223372036854775808 through 9223372036854775807 (8 bytes)
int -2147483648 through 2147483647 (4 bytes)
smallInt -32768 through 32767 (2 bytes)
tinyInt 0 through 255 (1 byte)

I guess with all good comes bad. My problem is before I monetize the websites well I jump into another business idea that comes in mind. That’s not a good business decision at all.

I have set a goal of getting those neglected websites back on track.

Is it only me or you guys also do the same thing?

I have two backgrounds for a page; one on left side, another on the right side. Both repeat vertically. This is an example how I have set the code at first:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>2 columns, fixed width, right rail, content tallest</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
html, body {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body {background:url(left.gif) 0 0 repeat-y;color:#010101;font:12px/18px Arial,Verdana;}
#container {background:url(right.gif) 100% 0 repeat-y;width:100%;height:100%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”container”>
<div style=”height:950px;”>Bla Bla Bla…</div>
<!–To force a height so we can see a scrollbar for testing–>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Problem:

Everything works fine as long as we dont have a scrollbar on the right. When we have lot of content that makes the browser have a scrollbar, the background on the right does not seem to repeat; it ends at the end of the viewport.

Basics of Percentage Height:

Anytime you want to declare a percentage height of an element you must declare a dimension set for it’s parents as well(no necessarily by percentage). For example if you want to set 100% height for a div that is inside the body tag, you must set a dimension for the body as well as html tags as well.

<html>
<body>
<div class=”adiv”>bla bla bla…</div>
</body>
</html>

And the css for that:
html, body {height: 100%;}
.adiv {height:100%;}

Solution:

We like our div to be at least as high as the viewport, but if the content is longer than the viewport, stretch to contain it. CSS provides a way for us to do that with the min-height property. If we change the height: 100%  in the #container rule to min-height: 100% everything is pronto. The code would look like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>2 columns, fixed width, right rail, content tallest</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
html, body {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body {background:url(left.gif) 0 0 repeat-y;color:#010101;font:12px/18px Arial,Verdana;}
#container {background:url(right.gif) 100% 0 repeat-y;width:100%;min-height:100%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”container”>
<div style=”height:950px;”>Bla Bla Bla…</div>
<!–To force a height so we can see a scrollbar for testing–>
</div>
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

<html>
<head>
<title>Two Cloumn Equal Height CSS Layout</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
#container{
background-color:#fff;
overflow:hidden;
width:750px;
}
#div1{
background-color:#99cccc;
width:600px;
border-right:150px solid #c33; /* The width and color of the div2 */
margin-right:-150px;
float:left;
}
#div2{
background-color:#cc3333;
width:150px;
float:left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”div1″>This is left div 1 content<br />This is left div 1 content</div>
<div id=”div2″>This is div 2 content</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

border-right:150px solid #c33;
This line of code just gives a color to the div2.

margin-right:-150px;
This line of code create space on the right for div2.

Other then that everything else is self explanatory.