May 2009 Entries
Here's a really short and simple bit of code that has the potential to be a bit of a time-saver. The FindControl method of the Control class is used to find a specific child control of a given parent, searching by ID. This method, however, doesn't search the control hierarchy recursively: it searches the direct children of the specified parent control only. While writing a recursive version of this method is trivial, a rather nice way to make the method reusable is to implement it as an extension...
I have been playing around with the ASP.NET ListView and Repeater controls quite a bit recently, and thought that a simple calendar control with date range selection capabilities baked-in would make a good example of how these controls can be used to produce some pretty neat functionality without a great deal of code. The System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace already contains a calendar control of course, which is itself quite feature-rich. Although it doesn’t offer support for date range selection...