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

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Overloading Web Services
Prologue My last few posts have dealt with my re-purposing of an XML data feed to a web service. Honestly, this is the first time that I have created a web service that I put into production, so I haven't had a lot of experience with it. In creating the Read More...
Working with Dual Monitors in .Net
Prologue It's been a while since I posted becuase until recently I haven't had the opportunity to do much coding lately. All the website updates I was working on got suspended and then outsourced so I haven't been doing much coding, mostly other projects. Read More...
VB.Net and GroupWise Soap Pt. 4 - HTML Messages
Prologue In my last few posts, I talked about accessing GroupWise via the SOAP services that they provide. In the last post, specifically we looked at sending and creating messages. I left with the promise that if I could get draft HTML messages to work Read More...
VB.Net and GroupWise Soap Pt. 3 - Creating a Message
Prologue In my last post, I talked about accessing GroupWise via the SOAP services that they provide. Specifically, we looked at getting a folder list. In this post I want to expand upon the application that we started and add some more functionality. Read More...
VB.Net and GroupWise Soap Pt. 2 - Getting a Folder List
Prologue In my last post, I talked about accessing GroupWise via the SOAP services that they provide. Specifically, we looked at logging in. In this post we want to expand upon the application that we started and add some more functionality. Problem Our Read More...
VB.Net and GroupWise Soap Pt. 1 - Getting Logged In
Prologue One of the things that Microsoft does really well is cater to their developers. If you don't know how to do something, Microsoft is pretty decent about giving you ample sample code to learn it. And if that's not comprehensible (sometimes it's Read More...
More Page Layout Snafu's or More Stupid CSS Tricks
Prologue I wanted to document a couple new CSS snafu's that I found in the midst of my work. If you've ever used CSS, you'll realize what a pain it can get to be if you have a lot of nested stuff. The website redesign I was (the company is opting to change Read More...
Working with an ObjectDataSource
Prologue Unrelated (for a change... as of yet) to the website redesign that I'm doing of our company website, I've been reading and doing the code from a very good book called " ASP.Net 2.0 Programming: Problem-Design-Solution ". In this book it details Read More...
Accessing Controls From a 'Basepage'
Prologue In the process of redesigning our company's new website, I've found a number of powerful techniques that will help make it easier to maintain the site. One of the suggestions I found was to use base pages. Basically, have every webpage inherit Read More...
Customizing the Paging Control For a GridView
Prologue I was using a GridView control the other day and found something quite interesting. With all the settings that are there for paging controls, there isn't one that allows you to do first, last, next, previous AND page numbers. I also though it Read More...
Using ASP.Net to Create JavaScript Variables
Prologue I had a chance recently to attempt combining ASP.Net code and JavaScript code... For a while, I thought that attempt might be the operative word. I did get it to work, and I learned some valuable things, such as, the difference between the asp:literal Read More...
6 Tweaks for your ASP:Menu Control
Prologue I have slowly been working on redesigning recreating our company website in all ASP.Net 2.0. Currently it's half ASP.Net 1.1 and the other half is classic ASP (ugh). As such, I've been trying to make use of some of the new tools that come with Read More...
Cool Tool - Refactor!
Prologue I've been playing with redesigning some of our website lately, and in the process I have been creating a number of user-controls for the website. In an effort to make them more usable on any number of pages, I started adding properties instead Read More...
Page layout SNAFU's, or Stupid CSS Tricks
Prologue Lately I've been in the process of trying to update some of our website to take advantage of the .NET 2.0 features and try to use best practices in doing so. One of the things that I've been attempting to do, and found very trying is to use CSS Read More...
Event Handling with Dynamically Created Controls
Prologue Not too long ago, I set forth to rewrite some code that I had created and add some additional functionality. I had created a management interface for some photos that we display on our website. The way I originally created it was to have only Read More...
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