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• My method: formatting code for blog posts

  I was asked how do I format code for blog posts. Well, to be honest, most of the code that I write in blog posts (and forum posts) are written on the fly, hence the formatting is also done on the fly. However, when I do come to copying and pasting code, Read More... Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:33 PM by jlovell | 3 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• Flop of the day

  Armand did the biggest flop of the day. All I know was gracefully admiring the manual of my next motherboard when a MSN conversation of 12 people popped up with the word “shit” following miliseconds later. At that stage, it was dawned on him Read More... Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:33 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• Comments on some article comments

  I just thought it would be beneficial to all if I comment on two comments that I recieved on my article about keeping scrollback position. Let's start off with the contridictary comment: Is this the same code as here, did Justin acknowledge Stanley Glass Read More... Posted Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:29 AM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• SQL Pagination -- the final solution

  In a previous blog post of mine, I said that Cursors are slow. Little did I know that I was going to come up with an excellent paging solution that... ermm... involved cursors. This took some really abstract thinking to achieve the following script: Declare Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:09 PM by jlovell | 8 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• Collection management during design-time

  This has become a FAQ over the time and so I have decided to just write a darn blog post about it. With collection management during design-time is fairly easy . In fact, too easy. However, sooner or later, you would like to have a multi-dimension collection. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:02 AM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• Pagination Removed from Whidbey

  One of things featured in the Alpha (Preview Release) is Pagination. How pagination works is the use of the ExecutePageReader method from the DbCommand class. In the Beta One release, the ExecutePageReader method is now obsolute. With the pagination, Read More... Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:34 PM by jlovell | 6 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• Tool to convert VB.NET code to C#?

  I am back! Ok, down to business -- we have all seen/heard (or done) moaning of converting C# code to VB.NET code. So there pops up a few conversion tools for converting C# to VB.NET code! But did anyone even consider the C# guys wanting a tool to convert Read More... Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 5:34 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• Server Controls in Custom Collections -- kicking the life into them

  A while ago, I posted a blog post on how to do the server controls into collections . That blog post was not only a problematic one regarding the VS.NET designer but you would have noticed that those server controls are not given the full 'life' in the Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 4:37 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET, Blog Responses

• #Develop 1.0 beta

  Now that I have waded through most of my emails, one of the announcements have to do with an open source IDE called #Develop (pronouced Sharp Develop). Currently, it looks like this IDE for developing .NET applications are really promising: SharpDevelop Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• XML Schema -- an excellent reference for beginners

  I will admit: I am not a master of XML Schemas. So when I see a beginner's resource, I would know what I am talking about because I am one :-). Just five minutes ago, I dwelled across this article: W3C Schema Made Simple It is short and sweet yet explains Read More... Posted Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:18 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• Great Tool: Templating your code

  The other day, I was looking for a tool that would stop me from repeating myself over and over again (like declaring properties and methods). And just as I was about to do some research into creating Add-Ins with VS.NET (do not tell me it is simple or Read More... Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 8:59 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• How to: Default the HTML view in VS.NET

  This seems to be a regular answer at the www.asp.net forums and I think it is time to blog about this. The reasons why you want Visual Studio to open web forms and user controls in the HTML view are: You just love handcoding your pages (I can associate Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:42 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Rants and Ramblings

• Collection management with server controls

  This is a FAQ at the www.asp.net forums; and I have decided to blog a sample of the code required for this to work. Basically, what is asked is how to make syntax like this, in a ASP.NET page, turn into objects for a collection inside the control: <jlc:CollectionControl Read More... Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:03 AM by jlovell | 13 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• A Tool to Note with...

  Have you got pieces of paper on your desk or is the papers pinned to a wall? If you do not know what I am talking about, I am talking about the pages with scribbles (called writing to all the non-geeky guys) which can also be declared as advertising boards Read More... Posted Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:04 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips