April 2006 Entries

How Events Work with ASP.NET 2.0 (A Quick Note on AutoWire)

It takes a BIG guy to say – “I don’t know” – and today I am going to say it. There are just too many things about ASP. NET, C# and the world in general that - "I Don't know!" After coding in .NET ever since it’s first Beta was ever released there are situations like these which are VERY... humbling (spelt - "embarrassing") . We started coding for a project and everything was going fine till we needed to code the PreRender event of a Web Control. Earlier versions...
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Reinventing the wheel

I am by means no expert to be writing on this topic but I've had this conversation with SO MANY different people (developers / clients / Project Managers) on this topic and everyone seems to have a slightly different opinion and stand. So, I feel I should take my stand on this topic as well. A HIGHLY opinionated one – that is. Of course, other’s who read this may / may not beg to differ. The Question – “To develop or Re-Use?” There are times when I need to write design...
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DotNetNuke - Training Followup

Earlier this week I conducted a Training 3 hour Marathon Session on DotNetNuke; there were some follow up items on the session and answers to some questions I wanted to post out: Some Questions Asked During the Training And Their Answers: Question à How can I get DotNetNuke Templates for Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional? Answer à You’ll need to download DotNetNuke Starter Kits at - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/t... and install them. Question à When I am designing...
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RSS Aggregator For Outlook!

Awesome Tool! Highly recommend it ... http://rsspopper.blogspot.c... - this one allows adding RSS blog feeds to outlook so that you don't need an external aggregator... sweet
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Customizing the Dot Net Nuke Search Input

Customizing - DotNetNuke Search Input - The Problem In a Recent Project I had felt the need to customize the DotNetNuke search input. If you've used DotNetNuke Search Inputs before you might have realized that the search Input Module is a little limiting in terms of customization. So, basically the kind of search inputs that you can have in DotNetNuke (based on what I currently know) are: Of course, you could customize this slightly or you could have another kind with a picture just by changing the...
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