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I have encoutered this very strange error when Im trying to modify one of my user controls on a winddows forms module. It's the first happened to me so I assume I can fix this just by cleaning up the bin folder, update references, reload or restart the project. To no avail, I have googled around and...
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Lately, I was wondering why the Autosize property of label on windows forms is set to true, this is annoying and tiring if you love using windows forms designer(yucks! kidding ), because you often want a properly aligned controls and fixed with labels on data entry textboxes.But not until i want to loicalize...
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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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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 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...
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i am currently designing the pages for our web application (.NET 1.1). this is the first time that i will be designing it and i am very eager to use metabuilder's master pages. the first time i saw it in use is with community server 1.1. if you have seen the cs 1.1 code, you'll be surprised on how they...
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i just saw the first episode of DNRTV (dotnetrocks tv) about webcontrols. fantastic pioneer episode and excellent presentation by Miguel Castro. i noticed though that the pro developers have been using third party refactoring tools eventhough they are using vs 2005 (boodhoo was using resharper, miguel...
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I was revising a page where a user selects an item from a grid and does a very intensive processing. User can select a number of items from the grid, since it uses a checkbox column and since it performs a very intensive processing i decided to switch it to a single select grid using radiobutton. Another...
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In ASPNET we only have SelectedIndexChanged ( DropDownList ), in Windows Forms we have both, but which one to use? My first .NET project is a Windows Application which uses databinding a lot and we were using SelectedIndexChanged of Combobox back then and it gave me a headache. I also encountered the...
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ASP.NET 2.0 GridView comes with DataKeyNames property as part of its improved security. It is the equivalent of using DataKeyField in ASPNET 1.0 to store the PKID used in databinding. Data will be saved as part of the grid's viewstate and is therefore not readily available to the client browsers as text...
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I was reading Stephen Walther’s ASP.NET Unleased book when I found this excellent behavior of Validation Controls. Initially, I thought they just generate client-side scripts to validate them inputs. Then he raised the issue on some browsers with disabled client-side script execution. When this happens...
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Last time, I reported a bug on the ToolBar control of Windows Forms which I have discovered upon a query of an officemate. I just saw that there is an update on my reported bug as Won’t Fix due to a breaking change, :p.
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The CollectionCodeDomSerializer uses reflection to serialize a serializeable collection properties to locate methodinfo with “Add” and “AddRange” as names. We have a coding convention here to use prefix to clearly distinguish methods from properties, and others. Method like these should have been exempted...