My recent comment exchange with Scriptar has prodded me to post an explanation of how I code on this blog. I view the code I post here as having two priorities: elegance and transparency, weighted slightly more toward elegance. What I mean is that most importantly, the code I post should be as simple, compact [...]
Archive of posts tagged ASP.NET
MSDN Roadshow In Augusta, March 19: Well Worth The Time
People love to criticize Microsoft, and much of the criticism it gets is deserved (when you release patches to your OS that are bigger than the original software, you probably deserve some negative press). But the one thing Microsoft does better than anyone is product support, especially developer support. Enter the MSDN Roadshow, a series [...]
Moving ListItems From A ComboBox / DropDownList To A ListBox In .NET
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: ComboBox Question in Visual Basic? I am trying to create a combobox dropdown list of countries. When user click on a country, it should add to the listbox. I manage to do it. But I want to enhance some form of checking. If the country is already added in the [...]
Revisited: Adding Non-Selectable ListItem Controls To An ASP.NET DataBound List Control
Last August I had quickly blogged on the subject of adding non-selectable ListItem controls to an ASP.NET DropDownList. At the time I didn’t have an easy way to demonstrate how that code worked — and, in all honesty, I hadn’t tested it thoroughly, so it had some problems. But now, thanks to GoDaddy’s dirt-cheap ASP.NET [...]
New Site For ASP.NET Demos: dhvrm.com
I have launched a new Web site to demo ASP.NET scripts. It is http://www.dhvrm.com. I decided to create the site after reviewing my last couple of ASP.NET entries on this site and discovering that they have some serious errors. I’ll be updating each with new posts as time allows. For the moment, there isn’t much [...]
Displaying An Image Stored In A SQL Server Database On An ASP.NET Page Using VB.NET
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: How do I read and write binary image data from SQL server? I’m making a website where visitors can upload their images, I’ve done the uploading code and it (probably) works fine because I can see the data is recorded on the database. The problem is when I want to [...]
