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September 2005 Entries

The interesting DropDownList ASP.NET control behavior
So if you've decided to use syntax such as this myDropDownListBox.Items[0].... = true; or ListItem foo = myDropDownListBox.Items.Fin... = true; you will get the 'A DropDownList cannot have multiple items selected' error. Seems to me that if the code sets the Selected attribute on an item in a list which by definition can only have one item selected, that the ListItem instance would set the SelectedIndex automatically for me. Seems like a no-brainer. I guess...

Posted On Monday, September 26, 2005 12:00 PM | Feedback (80) | Filed Under [ Coding with C# ]

Time for my yearly blog post
Well its been a great year. I'm thinking of moving on from my current contract - been 4 years slogging on at the same area. Longest contract I've ever had - heck, longest job I've ever had. Well, on to more interesting things - like code. We have developed a unified Framework here where I am contracting at to centralize (aka reuse) more commonly used areas of functionality, mostly data access. All data access has been abstracted into static method calls such as (note class names have been changed):...

Posted On Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:54 AM | Feedback (5) | Filed Under [ Coding with C# ]

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