Creating a scrollable text area using MVC.

Given below is a code snippet to create a scrollable text area using MVC.

@Html.TextAreaFor(x => x.Textfield,
new { style = "overflow-y:scroll;vertical-align:top;margin:4px 1px 4px 0;height:293px;width:600px" })

Compacting Microsoft Outlook PST files

If you ever notice a loooonng delay in compacting Outlook PST file, I strongly recommend running scanpst.exe on the PST file and then do a retry. ScanPST fixes certain errors in the PST file that allows the compacting process to not get blocked.

Recently I observed that compacting a 5.4 GB Outlook PST file to 2.7 GB took around 10 hrs on my Dell Latitude D630 laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor!!

Fixing the error: Handler "PageHandlerFactory-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

In trying to setup a site on a Windows 2008 server, I ran into the following error message

Handler "PageHandlerFactory-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

Searching the forums suggested running aspnet_regiis.exe with the -i option.
Running aspnet_regiis resulted in an error, the details of which could be found in a log file it generates. The log file had the following message

Failure Changing IIS ApplicationHost.config: IIS7Register failed with HRESULT 800700b7: 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists

I was able to fix the above error following the steps outlined in this blog article. The article recommends replacing %windir% with the absolute path "C:\Windows" in isapiCgiRestriction section of \windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config for .NET 4.0. The replacement is not required for .NET 2.0. Strange, but it worked. Running aspnet_regiis.exe after making this change resulted in successful execution and also fixed the "bad module" error!!