I just started a project which requires a FTP client that will download a root directory recursively. This means simply that a user can specify a single directory, and this client needs to download all the files in that directory, and traverse through all subdirectories and grab those files too. To traverse through subdirectories, you [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Parsing Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails and ListDirectory
By Andrew Konkol in UncategorizedRecreating Production Environments for Integration and Staging
By Andrew Konkol in UncategorizedFileserver: dir /s /b \*. > dirstructure.txt lists fullpaths to each directory
SSIS Expressions are great
By Andrew Konkol in SSISPreviously I posted about how to obtain relative picture paths from your database, flip the direction of the “slashes” and delete the image using a ‘Filesystem Task.’ I posted a stored procedure that does a ‘replace’ on forward slashes with backslashes, and I don’t think that is the best way to do it. The database [...]
Simple Fluid/Liquid Layout in CSS
By Andrew Konkol in FunI’m always frustrated with CSS, not because of syntax or construction… but the inconsistencies of rendering engines. Fluidity is important to me, my page should have the same look no matter how you resize your browser window. Creating fluid/liquid layouts isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Step 1: Draw a general layout [...]
Deleting Files with SSIS
By Andrew Konkol in SSISA common practice is to have user’s upload images to a directory that is readable from IIS, store that upload path to a database, and then construct a relative path to that upload directory for use within your web application. What happens if that data has to be removed? Example Scenario: You are running your [...]