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• Tablet

• The Disappearing Form Designer

  Every once in a while, while working on a windows app in VS.NET2003, I lose the design view of a particular form. The solution Explorer only displays it as a class and there is no way to access the design view of the form. The components all still exist... Posted Jan 15 2004, 09:59 AM by jlerman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• A groovy little pluggable framework

  Oh, this is just SO satisfying. I have finished refactoring my app and it's so cool to see this working just the way I had dreamt it up. I was only able to do this from a lot of ideas I have collected from many of the presentations at Vermont.NET over... Posted Nov 25 2003, 06:26 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• we still have to edit machine.config on a remote asp.net server to debug???

  I had this problem when I installed vs.net 1.0 on my remote webserver. In fact, I wrote about it 1 1/2 years ago here (see 2nd entry) and detailed the fix here . Somewhere along the way, I was led to believe that the first Service Pack on .NET Framework... Posted Nov 24 2003, 03:27 PM by jlerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• Planned refactoring of .net app

  Today is going to be refactoring day. (This has nothing to do with Whidbey - rather real refactoring ) My app that I am writing is going to have pluggable pieces. We are doing data entry and reporting for a variety of tests done out in the field. So I... Posted Nov 24 2003, 12:54 PM by jlerman with | with no comments Filed under: Code

• Three Windows Forms UI problems that stopped me in my tracks

  I want to point out three problems that I got stuck on in a Windows Forms application. I kept thinking I was doing something wrong. But in fact, they are real issues. I will find time to check into this in Whidbey. All three problems were solved by people... Posted Nov 21 2003, 11:24 AM by jlerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• Winforms - DataBinding on list controls

  Why is this? (from MSDN Library) In Visual Basic 6.0, a Combobox or ListBox control could be bound to a database using ADO; when a value in the control was changed, the database was updated. In Visual Basic .NET, data binding for the Combobox Control... Posted Nov 19 2003, 02:54 PM by jlerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• Scott Guthrie leaks aspnet 2.0 bits

  yeah - everyone's already mentioned this but here's one that really caught my eye: Using ValidationGroups. You can now have validator controls optionally validate depending on which button on the page is pushed. You can group validation rules into “groups“... Posted Oct 22 2003, 10:50 PM by jlerman with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Code

• choices in leveraging ink for data entry

  I had a interesting session with the person I trust most regarding ui design at my client's office. He is the guy who interacts the most with the users who are not really computer savvy - my target audience. So we went over the options for using ink of... Posted Oct 17 2003, 04:46 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Code, Tablet

• designing for tablet portrait orientation

  All of the design recommendations for tablet assume that you want your user to be able to use either orientation. But what if this isn't the case? In VS.NET design mode, a windows form height defaults to a maximum of 780. If you try to set the height... Posted Oct 17 2003, 04:14 PM by jlerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Code, Tablet

• lazy lazy lazy - code I shouldn't have to write

  Why do I still have to create these shortcut functions to replace something like this: With drpAirMeter .DataSource = reportCFI.AirMeters .ValueMember = "EquipmentID" .DisplayMember = "equipmentnumber" .SelectedValue = reportCFI.AirMeterID End With with... Posted Oct 17 2003, 11:09 AM by jlerman with | with no comments Filed under: Code