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.Net Discoveries

An attempt to pass along some answers I have discovered in my .Net coding.

July 2010 - Posts

A Better ASP.Net Member/Role Management Page Pt. 8
Prologue It’s been over a year since I finished this series of posts, and I really thought I was done. I found however (now that I’m using it in production at work) that there is a slight oversight I plan on correcting in this post. This will be a “short, Read More...
Skinning an AJAX Control Toolkit Control
Prologue One of the very cool features of ASP.Net is the Themes. This allows you can define styles for your controls. By applying a style to a control in a skin file and then using the skin's theme, we can modify ALL the instances where the control is Read More...
Configuring The AJAX Control Toolkit's AutoCompleteExtender
Prologue I recently mentioned that I used the AutoCompleteExtender in a project I was working on. I keep finding more and more that I like with the AJAX Control Tooklit, and the AutoCompleteExtender is no exception. Problem Using the AutoCompleteExtender Read More...
Getting to the Root (~/) of Your URL
Prologue It seems that every time I do a a project of any significance here at work, I learn a slew of new things. One of the slightly useful, but not well documented things I learned was how to retrieve the ASP.Net relative-to-root path for a page. Problem Read More...
Passing a Parameter to a Predicate... and a Better Way!
Prologue Recently I've been working on a rather complex and lengthy form page. One of the great ideas I had was to allow users to enter information (such as a city) into the field and have it auto-complete. The AJAX control toolkit has a great control Read More...