Hello All, This might be a long one so bear with me here this might bore you :). I have have had the need to be able to add dynamic nodes to my sitemap, I am using a sitemap xml file. My first solution, was to create a custom sitemap provider, which would parse the XML and if it detected the node I had...

Hello, I have the need to easily convert a string to another type i.e. int. And would like to return null if the string is empty. I created a quick extension method, thought id post it up incase anyone finds it helpful. /// <summary> /// Converts a string value to the given type, if the string...

I've had a few ask for the source control to this project, and amidst my objections, I tried to come up with a good reason not to release it and couldn't find one. :) The goal of this project was really to push through the app and get a working model up. There are some things that still aren't implemented...

Hello All, UPDATE 20080409: Another site has launced, check out www.betts.com.au !!! Thanks Stefan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally our first ASP.NET 3.5 website went live today, there are 2 more to come but this one is the only one live atm: http://www.zushoe...

Hello, At work today I had a friend (Blair) have issues with trying to get a browser alert to popup on the page during an ASYNC post back. I told him I would make a custom control in 30 secounds or less that would do this and make life much easier. Overkill I know for such a simple task but it was more...

This books title does not lie, it is LINQ and it is quickly. This book is an excellent introduction into the world of LINQ and also a great reference once you get your feet wet. The start of the book gives you a brief introduction into what LINQ is and also an introduction into the new features in C#...

Update 20070330: By popular demand (well a couple people) I have included a sample project with everything needed to get started using this control. Basically just a sample web project, click here to get the zipped archive. You might notice things are done a little different, I include the System.ServiceModel...

Hello again, I am currently making a Virtual Earth asp.net ajax server control and came to the point where I had to replicate the enums in my classes, but the issue with them is that the enums do not use integer values but string ones. In C# you cannot have an enum that has string values :(. So the solution...

Hi All, Following on from something I saw from Scott Guthrie, a ViewManager which allows you to render a usercontrol and return the generated HTML. I decided to implement a more generic approach which allowed you to set any properties of your custom usercontrol and then render it. So you would use it...

Don't know if anyone has come across this before. But if you have a usercontrol that uses VaryByParam and you have it on a page and do a postback you will get the wrong cache item. Use the below test bed to see what I mean, this is following to my post for help on the asp.net forums, I then found this...