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This one had me struggling for a while, so I thought I'd post a blog about it to try and help others.

What I was trying to do was create a PDF including header and footer sections to print documents onto a headed paper style.

Using iTextSharp V5.0.2.0 DLL in the bin folder you can create PDFs on the fly. My previous blog explained how to generate a simple PDF. Next I wanted to generate something a bit more complicated.

It seems previous versions of iTextSharp ...

As part of a project I'm working on, I have the need to generate PDF documents "on the fly" and then render them back to the browser.

I was already aware of a dll module that provided this functionality, available at iTextSharp | Get iTextSharp at SourceForge.net so I thought I'd post a quick blog about how to get it working.

Firstly, you need to place the .dll file in the bin directory of your application / website.

I then created a new .aspx page, ...

We have several IMAP accounts setup with 1and1 for shared email accounts and users have recently started having problems where the password box would constantly popup.

Outlook would also give an error of:-
too many errors.
Protocol: IMAP
Server: imap.1and1.co.uk
Port: 143
Error Code: 0x800CCCDD"

Obviously this was causing lots of problems for users with several IMAP accounts.

The solution I found ...

ASP.NET AJAX library is currently Version 0911 Beta. The toolkit can be downloaded from ASP.NET Ajax Library

I have previously used the AJAX Toolkit extensions in my ASP.NET projects and thought on my current project I'd see if there was an update.

Finding the ASP.NET AJAX library beta, I thought I'd give this a go. However, I did come across a couple of trip-ups that I thought I'd post here as I couldn't find much info when I googled it.

So, to get the AJAX ...

3) Converting a .asmx file to WCF .svc file

This is part of a series of blogs. The others are:-
1) Introduction
2) A simple .asmx file and calling a function

The next section to cover is converting our .asmx file to a WCF web service. This is placed in a .svc file and uses Contracts to define what can be consumed in the web service and endpoints in the web.config of your application define how the service will be exposed.

I guess the ...