Exporting a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS) Report Directly to PDF/Excel is a handy way of generating high quality reports without being stuck to using the ReportViewer interface. Sometimes the ReportViewer interface is an unnecessary step, but other times the ReportViewer won't render correctly...

When I was converting untyped data values from a SQL database into a custom Business class, I realized that I have to take a special precaution when casting possibly null values. If you try to cast DBNull to some type, you will get an InvalidCastException. When thinking about a solution, I remembered...

I recently ran into a scenario where I needed to have a submit button exclusively run some client code, which is pretty common and usually handled by having some DOM element call an onclick method that does the work.  However, there was quite a bit of validation that needed to be done and I did...