[If you are looking for a quick answer, jump here.] Yesterday morning was probably one of my least favorite in recent memory. I arranged to take the day off to go shopping with my wife, but I had to check-in to make sure everything was okay at the office. I checked my email from home and found that there were suddenly two issues reported on my project that was scheduled for an update in production that night. Needless to say I had to address the problems. It turns out that neither were more than ......
Today I was working on a WebForm that includes a GridView which presents text boxes for various columns. I put these in the ItemTemplate so all of the rows could be edited at any time. The next requirement was to update certain read only columns (e.g. Total Amount) based on the changes of the others. Originally, I had the entire GridView in an UpdatePanel, but that quickly proved to be a problem for two reasons. First, the updates were fairly slow. Second, the active control would lose focus after ......
Recently, I ran into a problem where I needed to cast from an unknown type to a known type. Normally this would be fine as I a generic cast. For example... 1 public static T ValueOf<T>( this OracleCommand command, string parameterName ) 2 { 3 return (T)command.Parameters[param... 4 } The parameter of course returns an object and I wanted to streamline the parameter value lookup process. All was well until I started using ODP.Net (instead of Microsofts OracleClient). With the OracleClient, ......