Archive for February, 2008

How to run an exe in coldfusion

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Cold fusion is a CGI language like asp, php. Sometimes, you may need to call an external exe in coldfusion.
It is absolutely doable in coldfusion. For exmaple, if you want to call cscript.exe, here is what you can do:

A handy script to convert html to image

Monday, February 11th, 2008

You may need to run a command line utility to convert html or url to image. Here is a handy script that converts url/html to image with our award winning htmlsnapshot product.
Save the below code into a script snapurl.vbs (Or you canĀ find this script in htmlsnapshot\demo\vbscript)

Capture silverlight web page into image

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Silverlight is the new web authoring technology proposed by Microsoft. It is implemented as an ActiveX like the Flash.
It can be used to build interactive, vector based web pages.