Steve Wellens


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Why SQL Updates Fail – Three Reasons
"The SQL command ran, there's no error message but nothing changed! What's going on? Do you think it's a virus? Maybe there's a bug in .NET!" The junior programmer was almost in tears when he came to me for help. Proud and confident in his abilities and...
Twin Cities Code Camp – October 24, 2009
The seventh Twin Cities Code Camp will be held Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM on the University of Minnesota Campus. For a list of sessions and a schedule, go here: http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com/TCCC/Fall2009/Schedule.aspx To sign...
CompareValidator’s Hidden Gem (It does data type validation)
Man is small and the .NET environment is vast. After years of working in the .NET environment, you can still find new and amazing features. A user on the Asp.Net forums posted this feature I had never discovered…so I thought I'd pass it along. The CompareValidator...
Debugging XML Transforms (XSLT) with Visual Studio
XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. There is so much to learn in our technical world… and so little time….and for some of us, even fewer brain cells. Alas, such is the life of a nerd/dweeb/geek. The latest technology I spent...
How to Fill a ListBox/DropDownList from an Enum
There was a question about this on the Asp.Net forums and after a quick search I didn't find a good generic function so I thought I'd supply one. Note: I wanted this to be as broad and useful as possible, so the second parameter is a ListControl which...
Posted: Aug 19 2009, 11:57 AM by SGWellens | with 4 comment(s)
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Speed Up the Visual Studio Toolbox
There are plenty of tips out on the web that I see no need to repeat here. But this one made such a remarkable difference on my box that I had to post it…. I use the Auto-Hide property on the Toolbox to preserve screen real-estate. After adding the Ajax...
What’s the Deal with Interfaces?
This post is for beginners. Many beginners struggle with the concept of an Interface. Over on the Asp.Net forums, where I moderate, the question is asked a surprising number of times. I'm going to try to describe and explain the concept of an Interface...
Posted: Jul 17 2009, 07:15 PM by SGWellens | with 8 comment(s)
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Serializing and Deserializing Objects…to and from…XML
Over on the Asp.Net forums I recently had the opportunity* to help a few lost souls by showing them how to serialize objects to XML and deserialize the XML back into objects. Since the question has come up more than once, I decided to BLOG it so I could...
AH, Ah, ah, ah…Staying Alive…Staying Alive
Sometimes you want your web page to 'stay alive'. That is, if a user is filling out a complicated form, you do not want the session to time out before they are finished. The user could get very angry and rightfully so: You might even get yelled at! It...
Why goto Still Exists in C#
Developers, Software Engineers, and Programmers are logical, rational, reasonable people right? Sure they are…until you disagree with something they believe in. Then they can become the most enflamed, outraged, foaming-at-the-mouth, intolerant, lunatics...
Posted: Jun 01 2009, 01:36 PM by SGWellens | with 20 comment(s)
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