Like most people, I spend a lot of time on the Internet, doing searches to find ideas, code snippets and support or advice from fellow programmers.  I thought that today I might spend a little time going over a list of the Top .net support forums that I frequent.  I’m not going to list them in any particular order because I tend to go through periods where I spend more time on one than another, [...]

Ok, today I had a little free time and I thought I would hit upon something that is very, very simple to use but unfortunately, not used nearly enough.  By using the TextBoxWatermarkExtender, you can easily inform a user of the requirements or usage of a form without cluttering the page with additional content.  Adding a watermark extender to a textbox takes literally 1 line of code but doing so adds much to the user [...]

Ok, so the other day I was browsing some asp.Net Forums, answering question when I came across this little diamond.  The question was on simply passing parameters to a querystring and this is how it was answered. Q: How do I pass the UserId and Password to my login.aspx page? A: Have a Hyperlink control pointing to Login.aspx and append the Text of each textbox to the querystring as parameters, see below dim myPara as string= “?userid=” [...]

I just thought I would throw a quick tip up today as I saw questions on how to split comma delimited string go across my desk at least twice in the last two days. How can I split a string that has been delimited using special characters, such as a semi-colon or comma?  You’ll see this a lot in arrays, JSON and in cases where one may want to force different columns of information into a [...]

Every once and a while my Visual studio 2010 decides to simply go insane.  I am no longer able to open my .aspx pages that worked 5minutes earlier.  I’m so used to it now, I don’t even get excited anymore.  How do we fix it, we simply Reset Visual Studio 2010 back to a default state.   So, how do I fix my ailing friend, Visual studio?   To restore Visual Studio back to its [...]