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Visual Studio had a problem where it would added "a lot of nbsp" when toggling from Design to HTML mode with certain custom controls. I blogged about it originally here. It appeared to be fixed as I described on another post, but it only seemed to occur less often. Finally, there is an official fix. It's not truly a "hotfix" though. It asked me to reboot to complete the update. Tags: Visual Studio, ASP.Net, Server Controls ......
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on some client side UI elements on one of my projects. I was able to apply some things that I have learned recently (some more recently than others). The problem is that I have a domain object that tracks the selected days of the week. Currently the object uses a List<DayOfWeek> to manage the selections. (This is not exactly the most safe thing because a client could set the list to null. However, that's a different subject.) What I was looking for was an ......
I've been using ReSharper now for about one and a half weeks. Now that I am writing some new code, I have more to share. The most helpful and time saving feature that I have encountered so far is code generation. In one case, I had added a couple of new properties to one of my entity objects. In actuality, I add the code in my test first. R# quickly recognized that the property didn't exist and gave me the option to create a field or property. I chose the property option and presto, R# found my class ......
I ran into the same old "cannot serialize value myType of type myType" issue the other day and knew immediately that I should check that my classes were marked with the [Serializable] attribute. Well, I checked and all of the classes had the attribute as required. So I spent an hour our so searching the web for other reasons why we might get this error. I found nothing. So I pinged a buddy of mine and I walked him through the issue. He said, "It's gotta be one of your classes missing the Serializable ......
I've had a few comments to my PageMethods blog from about a month ago. They were all along the lines of "not enough code." I wasn't really intending to provide a detailed account of my experience, but to exclaim how cool PageMethods are (at least for my scenario). Well, I am hoping to put some time aside over the next week or two to write a brief article on the subject. I'll be sure to include all of the code and hope to go through each step of the relatively short process. By the way, if anyone ......
[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 ......
So I was hoping this post would be a glorious review of my first attempt at working with WebParts and Oracle. Alas, the experience has not been so glorious. I am working on a "dashboard" of sorts as a demo for my boss. I spent a few hours on it this afternoon as a spike to see if the approach is feasible. I have to say that I believe it is, but there is one major kink I have to work out. ASP.Net WebParts uses the SqlPersonalizationProvider by default. Unfortunately, we are developing on Oracle. However, ......
Introduction Last time we spent a lot of time on the SelectionController. To conclude the series, we will hook the selection behavior into our CustomGridView. Recap: Custom GridView Guidelines - Preface Custom GridView Guidelines - Part 1 - Preparing the Canvas Custom GridView Guidelines - Part 2 - Selection Interface Custom GridView Guidelines - Part 3 - SelectionController Implementing the IRowSelectionView There are quite a few events on the view that the CustomGridView needs to implement. In ......
Introduction This part in the series will focus on the SelectionController. Here is where most of the work is done. We've already covered the view interface, IRowSelectionView. Now we will see how the controller interacts with the view. Recap: Custom GridView Guidelines - Preface Custom GridView Guidelines - Part 1 - Preparing the Canvas Custom GridView Guidelines - Part 2 - Selection Interface Capturing Shift and Ctrl Key Status We want to emulate multi-selection as in Windows Explorer. The Shift ......
Introduction I briefly described the design approach in Part 1. This part in the series will explore the ways in which the custom GridView communicates to the controller. I extend my apologies for the lack of code. I am limited in what I can provide. I hope that these guidelines will help point you in the right direction. Classes / Interfaces CustomGridView - The GridView we are customizing SelectionController - Responsible for the row selection behavior IRowSelectionView - How CustomGridView and ......
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