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"One of the most wrong-headed sentenced in all of software development is “let’s build the framework first, and then the application will be easy.” No, no, no. I’m never going to be a part of (or be the cause of) this exercise in stupidity ever again." I came across this post of Jeremy Miller at www...
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I came across a post on our local msdn where a poster wanted a automatically update applications deployed on several branches. He was eyeing on using ClickOnce technology. How I wish somebody from MSDN or Microsoft would deliver more complex deployment scenarios than they usually have. Something like...
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We already deployed my project into one of our first-adapter client and done with several platform tests and final function testing. This is an ASP.NET application so I am expecting zero-client configurations; a compatible browser is enough for the application to go operational. But weird thing happened...
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What do you think is wrong with this html code? .cf { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: black; background: white; border-top: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-top: 0pt; border-left: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-left: 0pt; border-right: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-right: 0pt; border-bottom...
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By default VS2005 template for web.config uses InProc SessionState mode. This may incur some issues when your computer is using antivirus software or some third party software that scans your files. I recently experienced intermittent lost of session objects because my session was being reset unexpectedly...
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We have decided to use the free BDPLite control as the date picker control for our small web application. The ease of use of the control and its simple style gave me the push to use it (and the prompt reply from its product manager for some concerns). First, i had some comments on the deployment. The...
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A very common exception when storing business objects in ViewState is an HttpException telling you : "The type [business object] must be marked as Serializable or have a TypeConverter other than ReferenceConverter to be put in viewstate." But you have marked your business object as serializable with...
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i was having some problem yesterday on setting the border color of the datagrid. setting the BorderColor property of the datagrid will set the outer box border of the html table together with the borders of the table cells. since i will be using the same styles for most of the datagrids used in my web...
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C# 2.0 have generic classes, methods, and delegates, a major breaktrough in compiler history indeed. But lately I was about to refactor my session helper class and thought it would be really cool if it will support a generic indexer but later I remembered C# does not support generic indexers and properties...
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george shepherd's windows forms FAQ ( http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/windowsforms ) is my primary resource on everything about windows forms. i was surprised this afternoon that he also has an asp.net version of the FAQ. http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/aspnet
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in my quest yesterday to find a free datepicker control for our application, i bumped into BasicDatePicker . they have this lite version of their control ( http://www.basicdatepicker.com/BDPLite ) which is free. i immediately hook it up in our application and it was working in my machine. my teammate...
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i have been using a number of free asp.net controls for our current project simple because i don't have to redo what the gurus have done and i still haven't finished the asp.net server controls book. i have chosen scott mitchell's menu for our project and since this morning, it is giving me a headache...
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i just found out today from dave burke of codebetter.com about aspnet podcast . i now have a number of choices in listening podcasts during my weekend travels to laguna. http://aspnetpodcast.com/
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i wanted to enclose my displayed data in an html table using a repeater control so i immediately followed the articles that i've read about repeater controls. i declare a table tag in the headertemplate and a table end tag in the footertemplate. <asp:repeater id="repeater1" runat=server> <headertemplate><table><...
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i lost a few minutes today trying to figure out databinding with a repeater control. to tell you the truth i have never used the said control in a project since i am a fan of the datagrid. i always have a notion that the repeater control is for the advanced users who know how to customize the produced...