Simple idea but really useful! An add-in which lets you past content as various different things in VS.NET. Download it here. For more information, visit Alex's Post
Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet.... Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me! Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going to play with this pretty soon, especially with this just…
Look here...the evil pooch will go away!
Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see Mike's post for…
It's always a thing I've been fairly weak at - partly because in the past it was of limited use due to stupid browser incompatabilities - but now there's really no excuse for not being a CSS devotee, particularly when trying to design lightweight yet…
I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin currently sports a nasty burn) and some other 'interesting'…
I'm trying to simulate the .NET 2.0 Database Cache Dependency stuff (well kind of, WAY simpler obviously). What I'm doing is running a little timer class as a static property of my global.asax.cs file...like so: public static TimerClass timr = new…
Wish I had this the other week when I was doing my HTML image grabber thing...took me ages to find this stuff. Anyway, nice tool found here which lets you easily use some of the cool Win32 PIIVOKE stuff a bit less painfully...
Sorry, had a bit of an unplanned hiatus over the past couple of weeks...a cold and a week away from computers being the main culprits. So, well, I'm back now feeling mentally reinvigorated and ready to play with some new stuff. Had an exellent break - one of…
First post in a while...illness and other stuff I'll blog about later...but to mark Poem in your pocket day...a bit early, here's one from one of my homies - Robert Burns (born just down the read from where I was - we all speak like this you know!). To A Louse…
I've done this in a few ways in the past, ranging from custom XML templates with XSLT / Regular Expressions to screen scraping - this is just the simplest and cleanest way I've seen to do this (also a very nice example of using the RenderControl method...).…
I've written previously that I've been hunting for a decent way to do web site search (specifically for CMS 2002 but just in general too...). I have been looking at Lucene.NET (which is in .TEXT 0.96) and a few other options. One interesting (and low cost -…
This is one of these things that's been running on a background thread in my brain for about a year, I have never seen a good example of how to do this but it just seems handy (I don't know what for but it 'feels' handy). Anyway, in the Codeprojectmail thingy…
You don't get to go to conferences. It really sucks, I would love to go to these things (though when I worked at a previous company which did send me to the Wrox conference in Amsterdam I umm... remember very little of it!). So, the choice is, blow almost…
I was doing some work on the new version of my first article last night and I got to thinking, all the code in the new version is in the same font / colours that I use in my VS.NET. So, I was showing the new version to a friend and he mentioned that most…
I worte a few days about reasons I'd never be an MVP - today is a great exemplar of that. So far, I've fixed a few bugs on a bespoke community application (event handlers, HTML changes, T-SQL the lot), I' have some more work on a generic search control based…
I've been lurking about in the ASP.NET forums a fair bit this evening and lo and behold I'm not moderated any more! Very cool - I guess I may have accidentally stumbled upon some right answers (see, you can apply JSP knowledge to ASP.NET ;-))
I tried my experiment again today. I don't know about overseas but in the UK at crossings we have a green man and a red man - you walk at the green man. Now, I had believed it was commonly known that the green man doesn't appear unless you press the little…
I'll be honest, this one puzzled me and I came up with some really hackneyed solutions to manage the situation where a user-uploaded file contained a virus (I develop lots of community sites which allow file uploads). Most of the solutions I came up with…
I've realised that it's taking far longer to write this thing that I'd hoped (the fact that I've started again 4 times may have something to do with it...). Plan is, I'll post the first part tonight - this covers Nesting Repeaters using the ItemDatabound event…