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Sneek Peak for my next series of posts!

Everyman — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:44:07 +0000

Ok, as I’m sure everyone has noticed, things have been a little quiet here, that’s what happens when you have kid(s)! But, as I promised, I’m slowly getting back on top of things. Here’s a sneek peak at what’s coming up. I’ve spent the last few months getting familiar with the latest and greatest of the Telerik Custom controls, in particular, their Reporting tools. My first Tutorial will be how to produce a [...]

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AutoComplete Dropdown Made Easy – A Beginner’s Tutorial

Everyman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:00:42 +0000

A particularly interesting and useful aspect of the .Net AjaxcontrolToolkit is the Autocomplete Extender. This Ajax control offers a user friendly interface for your user, is intuitive and lends itself easily to things like Search and Contact Forms. Most people will refer to this control as the Ajax AutoComplete Dropdown. Adding an AutoComplete Dropdown will offer your user a better online experience, guaranteed. In this example, I’ll walk you through Registering your AjaxControls, implementing the AutoCompleteExtender and eventually adding the [...]

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Top .Net Support Forums

Everyman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:23:48 +0000

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, [...]

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Using the Ajaxtoolkit Watermark Extender

Everyman — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:28:40 +0000

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 [...]

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A new member joins the team – Welcome Simon !!

Everyman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:42:18 +0000

I’m sorry that I dropped of the face of the earth over the last five weeks or so, but I had a valid reason, I swear. My wife delivered a healthy baby baby, Simon, adding to our little development Team. So, I took five weeks off work and stayed home to help the wife, spend time with my daughter and basically give my wife the time to do mommy stuff. I’m sadly, back at work [...]

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Using the Ajax Modal Popup as a Login Control – A Beginner`s Guide – Part 2

Everyman — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:42:14 +0000

In my previous article Using the Ajax Modal Popup as a Login Control – A Beginner`s Guide, I showed you how to implement a functioning Ajax Modal Popup form. In this followup article, I will show you how to implement the code behind to compare the supplied username and password against credentials stored in your SQL database. Getting Started – The SQL database backend For this example, we’re going to use a very simple SQL backend [...]

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Passing Parameters to a QueryString – The right way to do it, Encryption

Everyman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:13:05 +0000

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=" [...]

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Using the Ajax Modal Popup as a Login Control – A Beginner`s Guide

Everyman — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:51:08 +0000

Something I see requested quite a bit online is the ability to have a popup form appear to allow the user to enter credentials for access to a website. Using the AjaxToolkit Modal Popup this is easily done. In this example, I’ll walk you through Registering your AjaxControls, implementing the Popup and eventually adding the actual controls that will validate the user’s credentials against those in an example SQL Database. Getting Started – The AjaxControlToolkit [...]

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How to Split a String based on a Delimiter or Special Character

Everyman — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:30:46 +0000

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 [...]

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Nested Repeaters, do it clean and simple – A Beginner’s Tutorial – Part 2

Everyman — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:50:45 +0000

In my earlier article Nested Repeaters, do it clean and simple – A Beginner’s Tutorial – Part 1 , I showed you how to setup a Repeater to use a database backend to display Categories. In this follow-up Article, we will add a Nested Repeater, allowing you to display a Sub-Category for each Main category. Some SQL explanation I’ve seen some pretty nasty database layouts in the past but the Categories table I’ve laid out should [...]

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