April 2004 Entries
DataGrid, ViewState and SelectedIndex The ViewState of an ASP.NET page is a hidden field that the ASP.NET framework uses to maintain the state of a web page. When a user posts a page to the server, the server will restore the contents of the controls by parsing out the state and restoring the state in the Base64 encoded field. If you've worked with the DataGrid you know it has a tendency to increase the contents of the ViewState field by quite a bit - sometimes in excess of 100KB! To combat this,...
Ever have client side code generated out of your User Controls? You aren't protected by INamingContainer in your Javascript functions - here's a simple approach to handle this issue. http://geekswithblogs.net/a
Hidi-Ho! This is my first post to my Web Blog and I would like to discuss my ongoing experience with .NET development - specifically ASP.NET using C#. I would like to put out topics or coding practices out to the .NET Geeks of the world to comment on or to critique or to flame. A little about me My name is Allen Guest and I'm a displaced Canadian living in the Seattle area. I came down here during the .com bubble and have thankfully been busy despite the .com bomb and the economic downturn. Perhaps...