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Note: many of the screenshots of websites I had done in the past are from the Internet Archive and many of the images are missing. But it can give an idea on the projects I had worked on. One day I’ll try and track down the original files and update the screenshots. Today some memories …

Once I discovered jQuery, my life as a web developer changed. There are few libraries, tools, etc. that I can honestly say have completely changed the way I code. In all honesty, jQuery makes the difficult aspects of JavaScript and turns them into a strength. I recommend it over any other JavaScript library I know. …

I found a simple problem today. Here is the deal, there were several times where I had to base a LinqDataSource off a Guid that I would set in the Page_Load(). I created an<asp:HiddenField /> to hold the value so all my DataSources could pull it from the control. The HiddenField control’s value is stored …

Alright, I’m going to have a lot of blog posts over the next few days going over my wonderful expereinces learning how to create advanced server controls, and just how hard it is to find good information on the subject. But the problem I ran into today was having Page.FindControl() not work as expected. Problem …

I have to say, I’m very impressed with the implementation of ASP .NET AJAX. After creating several projects in .NET, converting several of my pages to implement AJAX was beyond easy. It was incredible. It takes all the “thinking” out of AJAX and just makes it work. Now, I’m not familiar with the security and …

Another thing I ran into today. I actually ran into it awhile back but since I ran into it again today I’d thought I’d post on it to help anyone who happens to find it. Problem You have a GridView and a SqlDataSource that takes 1 or more Guids as a Parameter. You use the …

While doing some work today I started to run into a ThreadAbortException error. While debugging it spit back this error: Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack. I was really confused because everything seemed to be working just fine, then I found …

There are situations where you want to gain access to the GridView’s DataSet to display extra information outside of the GridView. I found the following code to work the best for me. You can get the information from the DataSource of a GridView by doing the following: DataView dv = (DataView)sdsDataSource.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty); if (dv != null) …

I remember it took me forever to figure this out and the headache before learning this that it caused. Because .NET is strongly typed you are unable to access the Session, Request, or Response (and many other Http/Web object) from within a class library like you can writing in a code-behind file or on the …

I’ve found some interesting notes on ASP .NET’s GridView, it’s limitations and work arounds. For work I was looking for a way to execute JavaScript from clicking a link on a GridView Cell. An example would be to having a list of transactions and wanting to click a link to update it’s details. I noticed …