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A comment was recently left on a previous post of mine asking how to go about adding a button to a wizard and handling the click. I thought I'd answer the question with another post as there is usually more you'd like to do than just adding a button ...
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Recently I was asked by a friend of mine to screen scrape a website. What he wanted was the results of a form submission. There were a number of fields on the form (mostly dropdowns), and he wanted me to run every possible permutation of these dropdown...
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The default style of the ASP.NET Wizard control is not the best. For the sidebar to work, and display all the wizard steps in a wizard requires quite a bit of space. And in all the wizards we end up creating, we don't want the user to jump from one step...
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We use DotNetNuke as a base for most of our applications. We are primarily in the space of content management, mixed with custom code. DNN handles content management pretty well for all our situations. The ability for us to create modules in DNN to do...
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Users get impatient when something is taking a long time to run server-side. This usually results in having a form submitted more than once. Ok, maybe its not impatience, maybe its that they didn't think they clicked the button.... I don't know why.....
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I've mentioned in a previous post that we use Aspose.Words combined with Aspose.Pdf to create PDF documents/reports in all our applications. To do this we use a method within the Aspose.Words.Reporting.MailMerge class called ExecuteWithRegions using the...
Whenever anyone anywhere mentions Reflection on a blog post, straight away there is a reply saying "you shouldn't use Reflection as its slow". I thought I'd take a look at how "slow" reflection really is in the real world. We use reflection...
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Wherever possible we use enumerations in our applications. Often the name of the enumeration isn't what you want to print on the screen. It could be because the enumeration is 2 words that have been joined together, or you want the description to start...
Introduction I compiled a list of the libraries we use day-to-day in my company. There are a couple of home-grown libraries, but most are commercially available, or open source. "Yeah great... another person telling us which libraries they use.....
Nearly all our websites are hosted up on WebCentral. WebCentral operate all their websites under a partial (hosted) trust environment. Internally we develop all our sites using this partial trust setup as it just causes too many headaches to develop in...
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