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Unit testing a legacy ASP.NET application. A personal journey – part 1 by jaimedp

These series of posts will cover my journey into getting a legacy (i.e. no unit tests) ASP.NET web application under automated unit test coverage, the goals, decisions, techniques and pitfalls we got into as we rolled out this initiative.   The context...
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Custom HTML Dropdown control (part 2) - The server control by jaimedp

In this part we are going to take the custom DropDown html control that we created in part 1 and create an ASP.NET server control so we can use it in our Web Forms. The control in part 1 was a fully working drop down control that behaves very close to...
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Custom HTML Dropdown control (part 1) by jaimedp

My problem stated with the fact that if you set a width to a dropdown (select) control, IE clips the contents of a drop down list when expanded. IE 7 Firefox 3 To solve this, I decided to create my own custom dropdown control and as a bonus be able to...
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MySql and Tableadapters by jaimedp

Update (5/5/2008): You can download the Visual Basic version of the code here I think writing data access code is one of the most boring and tedious tasks in computer programming, so I welcome any help I can get to avoid doing it. That's were TableAdapters...
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UpdateProgress and disable a control on postback with multiple UpdatePanels by jaimedp

  A few months ago, while upgrading an application to use ajax, I needed to show some feedback to the user on long running actions while disabling some of the controls on the page. Looking around for a solutions, I found a couple of good articles...
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Compatibility of bit type between SqlServer 2000 and SqlServer 2005 by jaimedp

Yesterday I had to debug an issue of a product that we are deploying to a production server. We were developing using SqlServer 2005 (express) and the hosting company uses SqlServer 2000 and as soon as we deploy, we got the following exception on one...
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Kick-off by jaimedp

First of all, thanks to Joe Stagner and all the asp.net crew for giving us the opportunity to  contribute to this community. I'll be posting on different topics of Web Development and specially on Web Applications development. I'll try to post as...
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