Trixbox Menu CSS Issues (version 2.8.0.4)

After clicking on 

 Settings –> Repositories –> And the Submit Button to update the repositories,  all  of a sudden my main menu looked like this:

I figured that this must be a css issue and sure enough looking at the source code i saw the following:

 

yet when I shell into the server the file were not there. They were under a subfolder called  ” default”

Clicking on repositories’s submit button messes up the  “$smarty.session.trixbox_template” variable.

SOLUTION:

1.  The Clever way: Find out where the “trixbox_template” is set so reset it or prevent the repository module to reset it

2.  The lazy way : Move the files from /var/www/html/maint/skin/default/ to  /var/www/html/maint/skin/

RequiredFieldValidator Fires up unintentionally

If the RequiredFieldValidator fires up unintentionally, you might not have the  ‘CausesValidation=”false” ‘  on your Component.

So technically if you do not want the requiredfieldvalidator to fire on click of a certain button just add  “‘CausesValidation=”false” ‘” on that Button property.

The file you are trying to open…

The file you are trying to open, ‘[filename]’, is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?

You may get this stupid error message whenever you are trying to open an Excel spreadsheet  generated from a gridview using ASP.NET

Apparently this is  a bug

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsofficedeveloper/archive/2008/03/11/excel-2007-extension-warning.aspx

When you think that you finally nailed it, then there is this stupid warning (BS) .

Thanks Microsoft.