Browse by Tags

All Tags » Tips & Tricks (RSS)
What version of Adobe Flash are you running?
If you have ever done any customer support, you probably have a tool box full of different tools and utilities to help you get to the bottom of any customer issue that you run into.  I found another great tool the other day to help with investigation...
Posted 08 March 2011 01:24 PM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: ,
How to disable an ASP.NET linkbutton when clicked
Scenario: User clicks a LinkButton in your ASP.NET page and you want to disable it immediately using javascript so that the user cannot accidentally click it again.  I wrote about disabling a regular submit button here: How to disable an ASP.NET...
Posted 14 February 2011 03:21 PM by Jeff Widmer | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: ,
Batch file that monitors the number of files in a directory
Sometimes the fastest and easiest way to complete a task is a good old MS-DOS batch (.bat) file.  A friend recently needed to get a quick fix in place for their production machine. “I need to whip up a batch file that monitors the number of files...
Posted 28 January 2010 09:27 AM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: ,
How to prevent scrollbar jump in Firefox and Chrome
On Firefox and Chrome if the content of a page is not longer than the window, then the right scrollbar is not displayed, and likewise if the content of the page is longer than the window then the right scrollbar is displayed.  This makes perfect...
Posted 21 January 2010 09:28 PM by Jeff Widmer | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , ,
How to show white space in Visual Studio
In Microsoft Word I usually have the paragraph symbol turned on to Show Hidden Formatting Symbols (white space) so that I can clearly see spaces, tabs, and other white space characters.  Up until recently I had no idea that Visual Studio had the...
Posted 11 November 2009 09:19 PM by Jeff Widmer | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: ,
How to quickly format a C# class file – Ctrl-K, Ctrl-D
In C# as you are typing in a class file the indenting of your code can easily get out of alignment making the code hard to read.  Where does your class, if block, or method begin and end?? You can manually go and fix each line but there is a much...
Posted 21 October 2009 08:57 PM by Jeff Widmer | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: , ,
Use Ctrl+. (period) to trigger Visual Studio’s automatic add using statement context menu
When you type class names that are missing the correct namespace reference, Visual Studio will help you out by giving you a context menu that you can use to automatically add the correct using statement to the top of your class. For instance, in the example...
Posted 20 October 2009 10:08 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: ,
Parse a non-standard date string into a System.DateTime object
The other day I had a date that was in the form of yyyyMMdd and I needed to parse that string into a System.DateTime object.  Just trying to parse the string into a System.DateTime object would not work: String dateString = "20091016";...
Posted 16 October 2009 09:22 PM by Jeff Widmer | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: ,
osql.exe and unicode files – how to save your sql scripts with encoding
osql.exe is a great application for running sql scripts in a batch.  I use a batch file to execute multiple sql scripts that I use to rebuild my current application database from scratch.  When developing a brand new application, deploying a...
Posted 14 October 2009 09:43 AM by Jeff Widmer | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , ,
PureText is Pure Gold!
PureText from Steve Miller is a very simple and extremely useful utility that makes the Windows-V hot key combination paste non-formatted text instead of formatted text.  I use it all over the place and I make sure it is installed and set to run...
Posted 06 September 2009 10:08 PM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
More Posts Next page »

Search

Go

This Blog

News

Recommended Blogs

Syndication