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ASP.Net Paging Control....Google Style!!!
So you need to page your data. Simple enough. Most of the data controls have embedded paging and turing it on is simple. What isn't simple, is making it look half way decent! So I thought "...I wonder if I could build a generic paging control to mimic the Google-esk style!" Well...here goes...
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  08/03/2009 16:06:51      Views:  489 Views
Create a SQL database from LINQ DBML
Just started working with LINQ. Nifty stuff! But after you spend all that time creating a data structure, why do it again in SQL? Have you system do it automatically!
Rating:  Average rating: 7.0      7.0 of 10 (1 votes)      Date Added:  18/10/2008 15:37:36      Views:  626 Views
Password generator....without the frills!!!
Want to generate a no-frills, alpha-numeric password of some complexity? Well....
Rating:  Average rating: 10.0      10.0 of 10 (1 votes)      Date Added:  05/10/2008 04:06:56      Views:  615 Views
Displaying XML from a DataSet as if it was a XML file!
Why!!??!!?? Why, are the simplest tasks so damn complex!?!?!?! Example? Displaying XML data from SQL in IE. Overly complex for the task!
Rating:  Average rating: 1.0      1.0 of 10 (4 votes)      Date Added:  24/07/2008 18:42:01      Views:  648 Views
Cool IFRAME-ish page/image popup function without IFRAMES!!!!!!
Ya know those sites that, when you click a help button or an image, the "page" displays over the top of what your looking at (pseudo popup), fading the background out a bit!! Yes? No? Well....this is how ya do it!!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  17/06/2008 16:03:16      Views:  414 Views
Google Maps API for Dummies (and those of us who refuse to read!)
If you want to create a KML file (Using ASP.Net code-behind and not AJAX) for Google Earth on a UK location, you've probably come across several problems. Converting postcode to lat/long, for free, is damn near impossible. Well, thanks to Google Maps, it just got a bit easier!
Rating:  Average rating: 8.5      8.5 of 10 (2 votes)      Date Added:  21/05/2008 14:48:05      Views:  581 Views
How to select a DataGrid row, by clicking ANYWHERE on the row!!!
Web applications are not like Windows applications. We know that. But, by using tricks such as the SmartNavigation property, you can give your sites more intelligence, allowing them to be much more responsive, to work better.
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 22:09:59      Views:  471 Views
Little Known Technique for Confirming Web Deletes (single row and DataGrid)
So a user clicks the button, gets the "are you sure page" and then gets re-directed back to said page. Well, try this for something different!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 22:04:23      Views:  451 Views
Session.End event in Global.ASAX not firing
Why won't this work! Every developers default statement!! We should have this tattoo'd on our.....well....here's some help when the SESSION.END event in the Global.ASAX file doesn't fire.
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ASP.Net and Caching.....what does Karl say!?
Original Article By Karl Moore. Using Caching with your ASP.Net website.
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 21:57:58      Views:  419 Views
Dynamically create images in ASP.Net
Original article by Karl Moore. You want to dynamicaly load or "fancy-fy" your images, try this trick!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 21:55:35      Views:  439 Views
Buttons!? Buttons!!?? We don't need no stinking DEFAULT BUTTONS!?!?!?!
Right...so ya build a cool website, loads of content and images and...you guessed it...buttons. Then one of your users says "when I press the [return] key...the wrong action takes place!?" So stop pressing it then!!! Or, re-code the ASP.Net default button!! Here's how...
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 21:52:27      Views:  454 Views
Displaying Web Warning Messages: Technique 2
Original article by Karl Moore - A less "in your face" confirmation method
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 21:33:00      Views:  416 Views
Displaying Web Warning Messages: Technique 1
Original article by Karl Moore - How to display a popup confirm in a website
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  29/04/2008 21:30:53      Views:  408 Views
How to change the ASP.NET minimum password requirement
So you've just built an all singing, all dancing website, and now you going to add your users (from a Legacy system). Problem is, your users password's don't conform to "out of the box" ASP.Net security. Well....just wack it with this!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  18/04/2007 13:01:11      Views:  454 Views
TEXT Count down display and limiter
OK...so you have a text field you want users to enter "data". But you want to limit the amount of data and give a visual display of how much room they have left. Well...here's how ya do it!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  31/03/2007 18:13:13      Views:  445 Views
ASP.NET rollover buttons
For all of the advances with ASP.NET, some of the most basic tasks are very complex to do in .net. Rollover effects are one of them. Your choices are creating elaborate "extension" to the imagebutton object or installing controls built for this task. Well...here's my answer...in 8 lines of code!
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  27/03/2007 20:32:50      Views:  439 Views
Tired of FLASH adverts in IE...shut off FLASH then!
Adverts are very anoying. This article instructs how to manually shut off FLASH plug-in usage.
Rating:  Average rating: 10.0      10.0 of 10 (1 votes)      Date Added:  22/03/2007 19:04:45      Views:  393 Views
MSCONFIG helper script!
If, like me, you build and repair PC all the time, you start to emass several "helper" files that make PC builds/repair easier. Well, one of these files that I've had for years is at the front of the list.
Rating:  (Not rated)      - of 10 (0 votes)      Date Added:  14/03/2007 19:20:46      Views:  385 Views
Sky into WinTV (Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-S-Plus)
Surfing the web, I found very little information about getting a Sky digibox into Windows Media Center. Specifically the Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-S-Plus video tuner card...
Rating:  Average rating: 10.0      10.0 of 10 (1 votes)      Date Added:  26/05/2006 11:43:00      Views:  491 Views