February 2005 - Posts

Students: Get your entries in for the Imagine Cup!
If you're a student, and haven't already checked out the Imagine Cup, then its definitely worth a look - for one thing, you could win $25,000 in the top prize for the Software Design Challenge! Any student who registers before April 1st will get a FREE copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition, plus free membership of theSpoke Premium. Plus, the first 10,000 students who submit an actual entry will also get a copy of Office 2003 Standard.
Posted 04 February 2005 04:18 PM by James Crowley | no comments
Dynamically loading ASP.NET 2.0 "Bindable" templates
Update: See http://weblogs.asp.net/james_crowley/archive/2005/09/06/424539.aspx

Just found out that ASP.NET 2.0 doesn't support dynamically loading "bindable" templates from a file; you're restricted to writing them inline. In other words, if you're using a FormView or DetailView control, and plan to use the new two-way data binding features, any use of LoadTemplate is out of the window. Plus the BindableTemplateBuilder (for creating a two-way data bound template on the fly) is currently an internal class. Which seems a big shame... (or maybe it's just me??)

Does anyone know of any potential ways around this?

(Since finding this out, I've put in a request to at least make BindableTemplateBuilder a public class here).
Posted 01 February 2005 09:49 AM by James Crowley | 2 comment(s)
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