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New control and a hotmail rant

I have a new control up on metabuilders. It's a radiobutton that has a global GroupName. This lets you put it in a repeater or usercontrol or whereever, and the GroupName will still work. I threw it together in a few hours, but it was a bit harder than it should have been, as I had to completely reimplement RadioButton. ( please, MS, give us more protected virtual methods, please )

It works by using the GroupName as the name attribute, totally disregarding the unique id's generated by being in naming containers.

On a bit of a rant... Hotmail has officially annoyed me. I have a subscription/notification thingie on my website where I send people email when the site gets updated, but hotmail decided that my email is spam and so just bounces it. Grr. Of course i could play the same games that the real spammers do... changing subject lines and such, but dammit, I shouldn't need to play games to send an email.

So anyway, if you signed up on my site with a hotmail address, sign up again, but this time with a "real" address. I'm sorry.

Comments

TrackBack said:

New control By Andy Smith (MetaBuilders) : ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog
# March 5, 2003 10:32 PM

Grant Carpenter said:

I have the same probs with hotmail on a site I built. It's the devil.
# March 6, 2003 12:33 PM

Andy Smith said:

did you decide to work around it or did you just say "no hotmail addresses" like i am?
# March 6, 2003 1:47 PM
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