I recently created an ASP.NET application for receiving online orders for a printing company. The web form would collect information about the company placing the order, instructions for how the job will be printed and completed (binding, etc.), delivery information, due time, and the type of file(s) that will be uploaded.

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Interviewer:

Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer?

Bill Gates:
No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great        programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fishedout listings of their operating system.

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If you don’t have the time or inclination to update your PHP4 code to PHP5, you can get the deprecated functions to work properly (especially the authentication code) by creating an .htaccess file and dropping it in the folder where your apps reside.
The .htaccess file should contain the following code:

php_flag register_globals on
php_flag register_long_arrays on

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I wrote a snippet which counts the number of rows of text in an HTML textarea object. Its very useful if you need to display data outside of the textarea box.

I’ve got an example of a form and the PHP function it calls.
Filename: t.php

Filename: t_handler.php

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I’m trying to attach a file to an e-mail that I’m sending using the SmtpClient class (from System.Net.Mail) using C# for ASP.NET. Everything works correctly, but the problem is that the file that was uploaded gets locked in the folder by Windows and I can’t delete it afterwards.

This is the code I used to attach [...]

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