August 2008 Entries
Well, it looks like one of the best .NET utilities out there has changed hands. Lutz Roeder, the original creator and developer of Reflector has agreed with Red Gate software (they of SQL Compare and SQL Toolkit fame) to let them continue development of it from now one. An interview with both Lutz and James Shore of Red Gate outlining the deal and what Red Gate hopes to do with Reflector can be found here on simple talk.
Red gate are quite clear that they “will continue to offer the tool for free to the community.” but don’t categorically state...
(In which AJAX-enhanced CheckBoxes become more useful than RadioButtons but inheritance saves the day, and a simple RadioButton-derived control establishes the purpose of a control's naming container) The RadioButtonList. Very handy for inviting users to select just one item from a list although because of the screen real estate it takes up, used less and less in favour of the DropDownList. In plain HTML, the browser knows to enforce the unique selected value amongst a list of radio buttons because they all have the same value for their name attributes. <input type="radio" name="RadioButtonList1" value="1" />
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The GridView, and indeed all the other templated data bound controls, are lifeblood to an ASP.NET developer when it comes to creating websites. A little DataSource control here, a GridView there and even if it isn't exactly what you want, you've got a prototype page up and running in no time to start the real development with. Today's chores involved tweaking the contents of a GridView's EditItemTemplate so that the contents of one DropDownList (Clients) would change based on the contents of another (Roles) and should the Update button be clicked the values of both DropDownLists saved out to the...
Achieving perpetual mass for any community only takes place if the underlying purpose of the community is appealing to enough users that they decide to contribute some of their cognitive surplus to its furtherance. More of that discussion here. Discuss
Following on from my travails with HttpListeners not working as a non-admin user, it turned out that the Cardspace samples (download them here if you're interested) had one more sticking point up their sleeve before everything worked. The main example demonstrates how a simple Security Token Service is used to verify the managed card a user wants to send to a site. However, the service is accessible only through the HTTPS protocol on port 7001 and Cardspace was unable to access it. A little digging revealed that the setup scripts for the sample tried and failed to build a copy...