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Recursion is the Key

I have been stuck with an asp.net 2.0 Web application trying to schedule and organize elements in a ListBox, in such a way to add items to prevent overlapping, inclusions, and exclusions. Finally, the problem was solved using Recursion . Make sure always...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 3:09 PM by simple
Dynamic Sorting in SQL Stored Procedure

Have you ever faced this error message from SQL Query Analyzer? Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Procedure Paged_SelectAllProducts, Line 38 Syntax error converting the nvarchar value 'Chai' to a column of data type int. That was generated when I was...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 1:58 PM by simple
First Community Night

Yesterday, the LebDev .NET UserGroup in Lebanon, presented the first night in a series of Community Nights sponsored by Microsoft Lebanon Office. The Community Nights is an event whose goal is to share knowledge between developers about the latest .NET...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 9:43 AM by simple
UDF To Split a String and Return Specific Field

I saw a question today on the asp.net forums today on how to split a string and get each field inside the splitted string. Mrs. Terri Morton, proposed a good solution, and it happened that I had used before a method similar to a one proposed by Terri...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 12:02 AM by simple
Nullable In C# 2.0

There is something nice in C# 2.0, the Nullable Types, where a variable defined with a nullable type can represent any data of its nullable type plus a null value. When assigning a nullable variable to another variable, you need to check if the former...

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 2:22 PM by simple
Enterprise Library - Data Access Application Block

I would like to announce my second article on http://www.aspalliance.com : Get Started with the Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block Hope you will benefit from it to the max. Regards

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 11:34 PM by simple
Pre Select an Item in CheckBoxList and ListBox

In a previous post, I told you how to pre select an item in the DropDownList, now we will see how to pre select an item in the CheckBoxList and ListBox: ListItem listitem = ((CheckBoxList)Page.FindControl(chboxDays)).Items.FindByValue( "Monday" ); listitem...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 11:30 PM by simple
Auto Populating ListBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList

Hello: Make sure always to bind the ListBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList ONLY ON !Page.IsPostBack . There are two benefits to do so: 1- No need to have a second access to the database upon postback. 2- Selection of items will be preserved. if ( ! Page...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 5:33 PM by simple
Getting Selected Items in ListBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList

I was working today in a personal project and I had to get the selected items in a CheckBoxList, I thought of putting the code here so that you can have a look at it, its a bit tricky. foreach (ListItem item in ((CheckBoxList)Page.FindControl( "chkDays...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 5:26 PM by simple
Some Nice Features about VS.NET 2005

There is a feature which surprised me today while working with VS.NET 2005 Beta version. When you type : if , directly after typing if, press Tab , VS.NET will create for you the Condition & { } The same thing applies to else , type else followed...

Published Thu, Jul 21 2005 3:16 PM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
Validate DropDownList

Here is an example of how to do so: < form id ="Form1" method ="post" runat ="server" > < asp:DropDownList id ="DropDownList1" runat ="server" > < asp:ListItem Value ="-1" > -- > Choose < -- asp:ListItem > < asp:ListItem...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2005 9:47 AM by simple
Define an Event Handler for a HyperLink Server Control

Hello, a common question on the ASP.NET Forum is: How to define an Event Handler for a HyperLink? The solution as follows: protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.HyperLink HyperLink1; private void Page_Load( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { HyperLink1...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2005 8:55 PM by simple
Add JavaScript Functionality to GridView

If you want to change the Cursor when the mouse is over the GridView, follow the simple steps below: protected void RowCreated ( object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e) { e.Row.Attributes.Add( "onMouseOver" , "this.style.cursor='n-resize'" ); } Hope that...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2005 9:58 AM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
Extend GridView

I want ot point you to two important links on Extending GridView, by Frerik Normen: 1- http://fredrik.nsquared2.com/print.aspx?PostID=186 2- http://fredrik.nsquared2.com/print.aspx?PostID=177 Hope that helps, Regards

Published Thu, Jul 14 2005 9:43 AM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
DropDownList Pre Select

Sometimes you need to load a Web Form from Database. You might have a DropDownList inside the Web Form that you want to select a specific item in it, to do so you can try any of the two listed methods: 1- Set Selection by Text: string strText; DropDownList1...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2005 3:06 PM by simple
TemplateField in GridView

You can call a custom method inside the TemplateField of the GridView as follows: <TemplateField> <ItemTemplate> <%# GetSum((int)Eval(“Number1“), (int)Eval(“Number2“)) %> </ItemTemplate> </TemplateField>...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2005 1:43 PM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
DateTime Methods

I had today to work with some DateTime calculations. I need two methods: 1- Get time difference between two dates, in such a way to have the following formats in the returned value: - Hours - Minutes (01 -> 1 minute, 10 -> 10 minutes,...) - Seconds...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2005 1:01 PM by simple
Facts about GridView

Hi: I would like to share with you some facts about the Events fired in the GridView: ---------------------------------------------------------- RowCommand Is Fired BEFORE SelectedIndexChanging Is Fired BEFORE SelectedIndexChanged -------------------...

Published Tue, Jul 12 2005 4:32 PM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
ASP.NET 2.0 Security Cont'd

A good solution to my problem could be: Integrate SqlMembershipProvider + Profile object to be able to customize the membership API to my needs. Now you can inherit from SqlMembershipProvider, customize the methods you want, if additional data is needed...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2005 1:40 PM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0
Some Happy News About ASP.NET 2.0 Security

Hello: I have been trying hard to customize the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API to my own needs. However, all what I can do as it seems is just to customize the Data Store by overriding the MembershipProvider and interacting with a database other than SQL...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2005 11:07 AM by simple

Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0

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July 2005 - Bilal Haidar [MVP]

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

All Links

Blogs I Read

My Articles

JavaScript & CSS

Date & Time

SQL Server 2000/2005

Articles I Read

ASP.NET Free Controls

MVFP (Most Valuable Forum Posts)

Archives

Recursion is the Key

Dynamic Sorting in SQL Stored Procedure

First Community Night

UDF To Split a String and Return Specific Field

Nullable In C# 2.0

Enterprise Library - Data Access Application Block

Pre Select an Item in CheckBoxList and ListBox

Auto Populating ListBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList

Getting Selected Items in ListBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList

Some Nice Features about VS.NET 2005

Validate DropDownList

Define an Event Handler for a HyperLink Server Control

Add JavaScript Functionality to GridView

Extend GridView

DropDownList Pre Select

TemplateField in GridView

DateTime Methods

Facts about GridView

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Cont'd

Some Happy News About ASP.NET 2.0 Security