• Using TinyMCE Editor with ASP.NET MVC

    by Venkata Koppaka | Aug 30, 2010

    In this post I will walk through on how to get TinyMCE editor, one of the best WYSIWYG (What YouSee Is What You Get) editors, to work in a ASP.NET MVC application

    Go to TinyMce website and download the latest Main Package, at the time of writing it is version 3.3.8. Here is a link for direct download  - Click to Download

    I will use a ASP.NET MVC2 App to demonstrate TinyMCE.

    Create a New ASP.NET MVC2 Web Application. Unzip the contents of JScripts folder in TinyMCE zip folder that you downloaded earlier to say /Scripts/Tiny_Mce/

    After you unzip the contents of JScripts folder to your application, your Scripts folder should look something similar to this -

    Include a Script reference of TinyMCE javascript file in your view where you want to use the TinyMCE Editor -

    1 <script src="/Scripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 

    Then copy the following javascript in to your view to initialize TinyMCE -

    1 <script type="text/javascript"> 
    2         tinyMCE.init({ 
    3             // General options 
    4             mode: "textareas", 
    5             theme: "advanced", 
    6             plugins: "safari,spellchecker,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,imagemanager,filemanager", 
    7  
    8             // Theme options 
    9             theme_advanced_buttons1: "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect", 
    10             theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor", 
    11             theme_advanced_buttons3: "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen", 
    12             theme_advanced_buttons4: "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,spellchecker,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,blockquote,pagebreak,|,insertfile,insertimage", 
    13             theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top", 
    14             theme_advanced_toolbar_align: "left", 
    15             theme_advanced_statusbar_location: "bottom", 
    16             theme_advanced_resizing: true, 
    17  
    18             // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS) 
    19             content_css: "css/example.css", 
    20  
    21             // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs 
    22             template_external_list_url: "js/template_list.js", 
    23             external_link_list_url: "js/link_list.js", 
    24             external_image_list_url: "js/image_list.js", 
    25             media_external_list_url: "js/media_list.js" 
    26  
    27             
    28         }); 
    29     </script> 
    30  
    31  

    You would need a TextArea HTML Control to view TinyMCE editor. Use the following code to add a TextArea to your view.

    1  
    2     <form> 
    3         <textarea name="tinyMCEContent" style="width: 100%"> 
    4         </textarea> 
    5     </form> 

    Run the application, and you should see the TinyMCE Editor like this -

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers,

    Venkata

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  • Shrinking Database Log file

    by Venkata Koppaka | Aug 16, 2010
    To just shrink the size of a database log file, use the following code:
     
    1 backup log database_name with truncate_only 
    2 dbcc shrinkfile (database_log_name) 
    3 GO 

     
    The backup log statement marks all of the transactions listed in the log Inactive, and then the dbcc shrinkfile command will remove the Inactive transactions from the file, thereby shrinking the size of the database.
     
    If the database_log_name is unknown, you can also use the File_ID instead of the name, and that can be found by using:
     
    1 select * from sysfiles 

     
    when you are in the desired database that you want to delete the log from.
     

    There is a shrink database command called dbcc shrinkdatabase (database_name) that takes a database name as an input and will attempt to shrink the size of the database files in the same manor as described above.  

     

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers,

    Venkata


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