The primary benefit of ASP.NET master pages is the ability to apply code, themes and templates to child page content. But for some reason, Microsoft did not build in an easy way to concatenate a child page’s title to the master page title. Consider, for example, dougv.net, my ASP.NET demo site. I want it to [...]
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Shortening URLs With The bit.ly API Via ASP.NET
After yesterday’s post on using the Twitter API to post status updates on Twitter from an ASP.NET application, a follower of my client suggested using a URL shortening service to link to the articles headlines being posted as tweets. That was an excellent idea of which I should have thought in the first place. And [...]
Posting Status Updates (Tweets) To A Twitter Profile Via ASP.NET
I have a client that posts several news stories to its Web site every day. So it makes tremendous sense for them to post the headlines to Twitter as tweets, so that followers might be informed of breaking news, or just what’s new on the site. The Twitter API makes posting status updates (tweets) to [...]
Free Books, Just For The Asking
I’m clearing my bookshelves and have four books that I was planning to trash (since the local library doesn’t want them). Then I thought, what the heck, give ‘em away on the blog. So, forthwith, I have the following four books available: Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (1998 Edition): This is a reference book [...]
How I Code On This Blog: Elegance Vs. Transparency
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 [...]
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 [...]
