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I recently was working on writing a client validation function to go hand in hand with my customvalidator. My form had some regular ASP controls on it, and it also had a section of questions inside a repeater, since this section was designed to ask you to rate instructors, and the name and quantity of said instructors depended on which class it was. I don't remember trying to write javascript to

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-91860891102503593482010-10-26T08:51:00.003-04:002010-10-26T10:04:52.640-04:00

I have been researching ways to increase the list of typography that is available for us as web designers. If you are not aware browsers can use only the fonts installed in each computer, so it means that every visitor of your web page needs to have all the fonts you want to use installed in his/her computer. These fonts are called web safe fonts and include arial, times new roman, courier new,

JKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272380597833674888noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-64964970114532698672010-08-19T16:17:00.002-04:002010-08-19T16:33:35.657-04:00

I told Jason I was going to make this into a short story, but since it's 4:25 I decided not to.The long and short of it is:IE8 and Visual Studio debugger do not work well together. Well at least VS2005 and IE8 do not work well together unless you only have one IE8 Browser open (the one you are debugging in - this happens in firefox as well).If you have multiple IE8 browsers open, your debugger

Bills Fan Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845361986830397569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-42280306101525472182010-07-30T12:54:00.003-04:002010-07-30T13:16:17.448-04:00

I saw this out on the SQL Authority blog and thought that I'd pass the link around, seeing as the author doesn't want it printed or even downloaded. It's certainly not a bad thing to have a SQL reference, or change it up, even your style is already ingrained into your brain. Check out this link below for a decent SQL notation reference. I find that I already follow alot of these standards, except

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So I'm documenting a database with 21 tables in it. I wanted A quick way to get them listed. Voila:SELECT *FROM information_schema.Tables where table_type = 'base table'note that I added the WHERE clause. Without it, I also got all of the views.

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-42201022397513646792010-07-02T11:24:00.002-04:002010-07-02T11:26:23.524-04:00

I was reading about Toggl, which seems pretty cool, and free.http://www.toggl.com/public/tourDon't know how people are tracking their time these days. I liked Allnetic's tracker until they decided to charge for it :PSince toggl is web based you don't need to be tied to a machine to track your time, although I don't know if the desktop tool syncs up - I would assume so though.

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-86710663645014991362010-04-26T12:04:00.004-04:002010-04-26T12:23:35.765-04:00

What a long title! Anyway formatting the cell's onrowdatabound is quite well documented but all of the discussion tends to assume that you'll have specified columns, so you'll have BoundColumns and TemplateItems to work with. But I wanted to use short dates in a gridview where I was letting the gridview auto generate the columns (the default unless you set it to false in the gridview properties).

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-9629180829745651562010-04-13T09:00:00.004-04:002010-04-13T10:01:01.525-04:00

I have been working a lot with .NET validators recently. I found this article that explains about them quite in depth: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479045.aspxThere are two new tricks I took out from this:1. You can fire an individual validator from javascript using this: ValidatorValidate(document.getElementById("yourValidatorId")). I found it useful in this situation: I have a

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I recently discovered that you can right click on the solution in Visual Studio in the solution explorer panel, you can add items that will be kept in the root directory. So in my case, I have an application which will consist of a questionnaire and a tracking application. I removed the web.config from each project and instead added one config to the solution items. My directory now has the main

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-91234024277692317602010-03-23T12:28:00.002-04:002010-03-23T13:08:04.740-04:00

I have been hearing a lot of great things about Blueprint and after reading more into, I think we could use it. Basically Blueprint is a CSS grid framework. Layout grids have been primarily used in publishing to help achieve page layout and design but have become very popular in website design, especially WordPress blog themes. Blueprint does not only provide a foundation to build grid layouts,

JKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272380597833674888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-48676791064707304712010-03-16T11:54:00.003-04:002010-03-16T12:13:36.395-04:00

I was starting a new project and thinking about the CSS. I'll often copy from some old project but it bothered me that I didn't comment my old projects enough to remember the various sources I used to cobble together the layout in the first place, or what the basic layout had.So I thought it would be good to throw some basic samples up here for future reference. I'll use the tag CSSlayout so that

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-23015520954639395962010-03-10T10:10:00.002-05:002010-03-10T10:12:38.715-05:00

Have you heard of this CSS tool called ‘LESS’? http://lesscss.org/index.htmlIt seems to be a good tool to organize CSS rules. It’s very easy to install if you have Mac OS X. For Windows, you need to install ruby first.

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I heard that a project was throwing this error on attempts to run it in a browser via Visual Studio. The full error complained about integrated Windows authentication.What you need to do is go to the project via IIS and being up its properties. Then click over to the Directory Security tab, and under the first section, Anonymous access and authentication, there is an edit button. Click it, then

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-25353752871588558552010-02-18T10:05:00.003-05:002010-02-18T10:46:37.572-05:00

don't know if you guys were aware of this, but the 3.5 framework supports a new set of charting controls - yeah, bar graphs and stuff1 How exciting! You'd need to install 2 separate add-ons, one for the framework, one for Visual Studio 2008, and then you can roll. I'm working on a bar graph now for a project.Microsoft has a Getting Started article for these controls, but 4VGuysfromrolla's is much

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-55203752828581728932009-11-04T08:21:00.000-05:002009-11-04T08:22:07.182-05:00

Hi All I have run a across this a few times in the past and it drove me crazy: Ever Build – The build succeeds, then when you Publish, you get “Publish Failed” but you don’t see any errors as to why? (it happens so few and far between – usually it’s a missing file / dll) I found this on the web… http://forums.asp.net/p/1248620/2478095.aspx Try opening your Output Window in VS2005 or

Bills Fan Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845361986830397569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-2951446327838727372009-09-02T11:42:00.003-04:002009-09-02T11:53:05.441-04:00

Hi all,I found something useful for a change and thought I'd share. :) While trying to check the accuracy of a specific origin path of a file to be uploaded to a destination directory from a web page I found that some newer browsers handle this a bit differently. For example, if the user browses to the file C:\Docs\myfile.doc on their machine from a web page, from an input box with type "file",

TBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755670503190943842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-77688441856877438032009-08-20T08:38:00.004-04:002009-08-20T08:49:06.789-04:00

I have a page with a user control that has a dropdownlist for date. When the user control loads for the first time, I populate the year options using one of our toolbox methods. When the webform (the user control's host) loads for the first time, I also look in a database to see if there is a date stored that I should use to populate the date field. However, this latter thing was failing on the

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-83700611474727173672009-08-18T09:40:00.006-04:002009-08-18T10:26:51.605-04:00

I've been doing alot of this lately, being new to the CTSI db and such.use this syntax, where 'yourcol' is the known column:Select table_name from information_Schema.columns where column_name='yourCol'or you can do a "like", like this:Select table_name from information_Schema.columns where column_name like '%yourCol%'

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If you are trying to FindControl on the repeater's ItemDataBound or ItemCreated event it's pretty easy. However I needed to access a control from the repeater's PreRender event. This is when I discovered that "Only items bound to the data source are contained in the Items collection. The header, footer, and separator are not included in the collection." (from MSDN). Therefore I had to use a line

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-86145583354555987412009-08-12T12:13:00.002-04:002009-08-12T12:22:57.350-04:00

After reading Layla's blog post earlier this week I spoke with a friend and he turned me on to Adobe BrowserLab. BrowserLab is a hosted web service that provides snapshots of your web site in multiple browsers. It is currently in a limited free preview for people to try out from adobe.com. The best part about ABL is that it can be integrated with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. All you have to do is go to

JKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272380597833674888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-77465990487101650062009-08-10T14:36:00.002-04:002009-08-10T14:40:41.896-04:00

Frustrated by the fact that I still was not getting the standalone ie6 to work following the article I mentioned in this post, I did more digging and eventually unearthed this: http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm Why was this so hard to find? Beats me. But I have installed it and so far it seems to be working. Right now I have IE8 as my 'real' browser and standalones of the rest. Note

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-82941377894990367352009-07-28T16:39:00.000-04:002009-07-28T16:43:29.024-04:00

Ugh, that was annoying. I needed to modify this line to also look for parens:var re = new RegExp("^[a-zA-Z\.\'\,\-]*$", "g");So I added it to the end, like so:var re = new RegExp("^[a-zA-Z\.\'\,\-\(\)]*$", "g");Let me add that I had already modified the server sie validation written in C# which looked almost the same, with no problem. But when I ran the page, the js choked and I got this error in

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-29471471110131203462009-07-20T19:53:00.003-04:002009-07-20T19:59:41.781-04:00

//change bgcolor of gridview row based on data//in this case the data I am testing is in a templatefield that is hidden//if the data had been added in the last hour, then I apply a certain css classprotected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { DateTime entryDate =

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-14695961707024603712009-07-09T08:16:00.005-04:002009-07-09T09:10:25.224-04:00

I recently needed to hide a row in a repeater if it had no data. I feel like I had done this before but I could not remember how. After a lot of reading and experimenting, I figured out that it was really pretty easy to do. (Note that I read a couple of ways that I think were not the way to go, so I'll mention them here: one person ad made a hidden footer row, and used that to test for missing

Laylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239488867986344941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184936730500234238.post-2244620342582652382009-06-29T12:52:00.000-04:002009-06-29T12:53:12.588-04:00

Probably of more interest than my last post: I added a function to the toolbox that will take a datatable, and email it as an excel attachment. Exciting!

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