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• .NET: What exactly does Trim() trim?

  I found myself using the character specific String.Trim(params char[] trimChars) overload to remove some carriage returns and tabs when I realized I was reinventing the wheel again.  Not content with the basic Trim() 's intellisense ( "Removes... Posted Jun 24 2008, 01:41 PM by mo.notono.us Filed under: ASP.NET, moss, C#, experiment, windows forms

• Help, my database updates don't stick

  Just a quick post to remind people of the ASP.net life cycle. Most people learn this early on in their ASP.Net life, but it's something that can be overlooked and leave you slapping your head in frustration. Recently, I was working on a simple page... Posted May 14 2008, 11:02 PM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: ASP.NET, life cycle

• Making “user-aware” Web Parts

  I have currently been tasked with the duty of providing a web part that displays patient satisfaction scores for the hospital. However, there was one stipulation: “Can you make the web part reflect the unit that the nurse is working on?”.... Posted Apr 18 2008, 10:49 AM by travislowdermilk.com » SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, ASP.NET, SQL

• How to: Use LINQ to SQL without using the Object Relational Designer

  LINQ to SQL has already proved to be extremely easy to use to create object relational mappings when you have an existing database schema using the Object Relational Designer. This designer is good, but you may not want something that is autogenerating... Posted Mar 17 2008, 07:54 PM by Corey's .NET Tip of the Day Filed under: ASP.NET, visual studio 2008, C# 3.0

• How to: Hack a Class Library Project into a Web Application Project

  Kind of a weird tip here, but I have ran into a situation where I have needed to do this. Basically, I have had an existing class library (for SharePoint development) and for some reason, I have decided I need to add ASP.NET file types to it (i.e. User... Posted Feb 22 2008, 02:09 PM by Corey's .NET Tip of the Day Filed under: ASP.NET, visual studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005

• SPSqlDataSource: This control does not allow connection strings with the following keywords: ‘Integrated Security’, ‘Trusted_Connection’.

  I ran into this one again lately when deploying. We are folowing best practices with our connection strings by using Integrated Security. We have several controls on the web site making use of SqlDataSource controls. However, at runtime, we are left when... Posted Feb 11 2008, 10:28 AM by Corey's .NET Tip of the Day Filed under: Sharepoint, ASP.NET

• Yahoo! Weather Web Part

  Yeah, I know. You’re thinking this is frivolous; “What’s the point?”, you say. Well this is my first web part and I decided to go with something a little less “high profile”. However, I am still happy with it and think... Posted Jan 10 2008, 11:09 AM by travislowdermilk.com » SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, ASP.NET

• C#/MOSS: Extension Methods: For Good and For Evil

  Let me start with some good news: C# 3.0/ASP.NET 3.5 works beautifully with SharePoint 2007, thanks to the forward-compatible nature of the .NET framework from version 2.0 onwards. This compatibility opens up all sorts of avenues, one of them is the use... Posted Jan 10 2008, 10:08 AM by mo.notono.us Filed under: Sharepoint, ASP.NET, moss, C#, howto, silliness

• Customizing the order of your stylesheets

  Anyone who has tried to brand their SharePoint sites has probably encountered the 5 stages of grief when learning about the core.css: Disbelief - “They couldn’t have possibly designed it this way; I must be missing something!” Anger – “This [...] Read... Posted Dec 31 2007, 02:12 PM by travislowdermilk.com » SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, ASP.NET

• Web part custom property - dropdown list

  It isn't immediately obvious how to include a drop down list as a custom property on a web part. To do this you simply use an enum. Eg. //create enum public enum ProductByEnum {ByType = 0, ByBrand, ByChemistry}; //create get/set for the property protected... Posted Dec 19 2007, 03:40 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET, MOSS 2007

• Creating XHTML compliant ASP.Net server controls

  ASP.Net is great but many of the controls use table tags when they render. I am currently in the process of developing some Internet sites using MOSS 2007 which need to meet accessibility guidelines so these controls, in their out of the box state, are... Posted Dec 12 2007, 03:38 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET, MOSS 2007, css

• Excellent post about making SharePoint xhtml compliant

  For anyone using the web content management components of MOSS 2007 to produce Internet sites this is essential reading. SharePoint uses a lot of ASP.Net controls which render using tables and non compliant html. To get rid of this there are a few things... Posted Dec 10 2007, 09:02 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET, MOSS 2007

• An efficient way to set web control values

  Rather than setting the widths of label and textbox controls individually like this: oLabel1.Width=150; oLabel2.Width=150; oLabel3.Width=150; It is much more efficient to add the controls to the controls collection and use: foreach(Control oControl in... Posted Dec 10 2007, 05:11 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET

• Setting custom properties on web parts

  When creating web parts it is often useful to allow users to supply some additional parameters to the web part. This can be done by adding custom attributes which can then be set by the user and used in your code. To do this use the following syntax:... Posted Dec 03 2007, 04:49 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET, MOSS 2007

• ILMerge to the rescue

  I recently needed to add a reference to a web part where the dll had not been strongly named. The result of doing this was a build error complaining about the unsigned dll. I did not have access to the source code so couldn't resolve the issue by... Posted Nov 08 2007, 05:57 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET

• Accessing Outlook using C#

  I have been writing some code that retrieves unread Outlook messages and displays today's appointments to a user. This KB article has it covered: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310265 Read More... Posted Nov 06 2007, 04:49 AM by Aidan Garnish Filed under: ASP.NET

• ASP.Net Cricket Web Part

  Cricket season is rolling around, and where I work, we are mad cricket fans. Our office has two projectors setup in the office just to project cricket onto the walls while we are working (this year I've used a TV Tuner card in an old computer - and... Posted Nov 05 2007, 11:56 PM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: ASP.NET, Cache, cricket

• An online solution for viewing DWF files, with capability to drag into Autocad

  On the Autodesk Forums , I recently enquired about a way of replacing WHIP! for autocad, which allowed us to have an intranet with standard details for our cad users to open up, view, and if needed drag and drop into autocad. When Autodesk discontinued... Posted Aug 26 2007, 11:39 PM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: ASP.NET, Autocad, DWF, I-Drop, Design Review

• Using Excel documents as a data source in ASP.Net

  This is something that I mentioned last blog, finally I've gotten around to posting it, on a side note, I'm also trying out the new 'blogging' feature in Word 2007, go to the office button, click new, and start a new blog post, it'll... Posted Jul 25 2007, 03:19 AM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: ASP.NET, SQL, data, excel, source, database

• SharePoint 2007 : Comment intégrer Ajax et Silverlight à SharePoint

  En cette période de l'année, il est très difficile pour un "SharePointeur" comme moi de ne pas penser aux possibilités d'intéractions de Silverlight ou Ajax avec SharePoint. Et apparemment je ne suis pas le seul puisque themit a aussi... Posted Jun 19 2007, 04:10 PM by Philippe Sentenac [Usual Coder] Filed under: Sharepoint, Ajax, ASP.NET, PopFly, Silverlight

• Visual Studio Orcas and .NET 2.0

  VS Orcas is available as a CTP install from Microsoft.com. I've been using it side by side VS 2005 on my laptop and haven't had any issues in THIS environment, although I think it screwed up my workstation at NewsGator. (Don't tell Lane.)... Posted Apr 27 2007, 08:51 AM by Daniel Larson's Developer Blog Filed under: ASP.NET