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• Using reflection for either ParentType usercontrol or webpage

  I had a piece of code in a usercontrol today which could have been the child of either a web page or another usercontrol. If I've referred to a usercontrol type with reflection before I've forgotten it, so today's reflection tidbit seemed like the first... Posted Nov 10 2004, 08:17 PM by daveburke with | with no comments Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Formatting CheckBoxLists with CSS. Finding some space.

  I needed a multi-column CheckBoxList the other day and encountered the old CheckBox-Butt-up-Against-The-Text syndrome. I added some string manipulation hack the last time I dealt with this, but determined to do it differently this time. Simply put, I... Posted May 28 2004, 03:38 PM by daveburke with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• HtmlInputFile posting from a usercontrol in OnUpdateCommand

  As the subject says, I am posting a file in a Datalist <EditItemTemplate> in an OnUpdateCommand event method using a HtmlInputFile HTML Input control. I've used HtmlInputFile quite a bit and its always worked great, but not today. The usercontrol... Posted May 17 2004, 03:41 PM by daveburke with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Referencing Dynamically Loaded Controls from Child Controls using Strongly Typed Classes

  The subtitle of this post is "If Karl can't reference it, no one can!" Big fat thank you, Karl! In a comment to one of my previous posts on this subject, Karl (last name not known...yet) very generously provided a killer approach to referencing dynamically... Posted May 08 2004, 04:30 PM by daveburke with | with no comments Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Handling the comma. Period.

  One of my favorite words for as long as I can remember is "minutia" (or "minutiae" plural.) My blog is filled with minutiae, and would have been more aptly titled ".NET Minutiae and Very Little Else." That title might be taken, of course... I'm not obsessed... Posted Apr 28 2004, 04:13 PM by daveburke with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Using SQL to obtain unique values, a guilty pleasure

  I have a list of int IDs of individuals associated with a subject, with the list coming from various sources. There are most likely duplicates, but I want unique values only. I considered what type of algorithm I would use. An array perhaps, sort it and... Posted Apr 28 2004, 04:01 PM by daveburke with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• More on handling SQL null dates

  Null SQL date values have been yankin' my nose hairs out of place lately, I think primarily because I'm using business objects more extensively which requires more value handling. I'm going to say that the following is an Insider's TIP for handling null... Posted Apr 28 2004, 03:45 PM by daveburke with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Object reference instance error and the web.config

  Problem Your app is looking for an appsetting value in the web.config and when it isn't found generates the error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Resolution Add the friggen' appsetting value Analysis Wooo-wee! This is a humdinger... Posted Apr 27 2004, 12:44 PM by daveburke with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• Back in Session, or, More on Controls in Controls

  The dynamically loaded, multi-tiered control architecture of this afterhours project has its benefits, certainly, but with it I'm forced to use different approaches to communicating among objects throughout the app. A particular child control has a different... Posted Apr 23 2004, 11:32 PM by daveburke with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day

• The simple repeater

  I'm a Datalist Man. Always have been. Probably always will be. But there's overhead in the datalist control that can get in the way of a fragile HTML display environment. I wanted simple right align of a list of first and last names. I trimmed the string... Posted Apr 23 2004, 10:37 PM by daveburke with | with no comments Filed under: .Net Discovery of the Day