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Teaser - upcoming forum software / message board AtlasForums
Here's a quick screen grab from an upcoming forum project I'm working on: AtlasForums. As I progress with this, I'll post more and more details as I get closer to launch. Hope you like what you see so far. Cheers!
ViewState, CheckBox, ControlState...errr...
J. Michael Palermo writes about the CheckBox in ASP.NET maintaining its state regardless of the EnableViewState attribute to False in ASP.NET 2.0. Hang on - isn't that the same in ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1? Oh yes. All web controls that implement the IPostBackDataHandler...
Posted: Aug 24 2006, 03:49 PM by Wim | with 10 comment(s)
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ASP.NET 1.1 server control for <link> - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"
Here's a simple - but useful Link webcontrol class that supports the "~" tilde syntax for relative paths for the href attribute of the <link> element. [DefaultProperty("Text"),ToolboxData("<{0}:Link runat=server Href=\"\" Rel=\"Stylesheet\" Type...
Posted: Apr 27 2006, 11:56 AM by Wim | with 8 comment(s)
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PayPal API: what a nightmare!!!
I've been trying to get up and running with the PayPal API, see www.paypal.com/developer .What a complete nuisance that is! The test accounts you create (on the sandbox, http://www.sandbox.paypal.com ) actually need to be verified, before you can request...
Posted: Jan 27 2006, 12:42 PM by Wim | with 17 comment(s)
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Public available data - FREE screenscraping or pay for API
Been working on a semi-commercial pet project of mine, for which I need a data feed. A decent enough subset of this data feed is publicly available from this content provider's main website. However, the full dataset (though I won't need all that) is...
Posted: Jan 23 2006, 08:42 PM by Wim | with 2 comment(s)
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Possible Bug : HttpPost and class name conflicts
A colleague and friend of mine run into some very odd web service behaviour on ASP.NET 1.1. Anyone who can shed some light on this, please leave a comment. I have pasted his exact text describing the problem below. -- Included below is a minimal web-service...
Posted: Oct 02 2005, 11:33 PM by Wim | with no comments
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Recruiter talk - ar5e and elbow
Came across an interesting job description for an ASP.NET developer which shows that most, if not all recruitment agencies don't have any clue what they are talking about: "My Client has an urgent requirement for an .aspx savvy ASP.Net Developer to help...
Posted: Jul 02 2005, 10:04 AM by Wim | with 2 comment(s)
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Tiny suggestion for IE7 - <Enter> in address bar should result in HTTP GET refresh
A little gripe I have with IE when doing ASP.NET development is that when you've tested a page (with some PostBack), fix or add something and recompile, you'd usually want to refresh your page without re-posting, so not performing the postback. When pressing...
Posted: Jun 30 2005, 12:20 PM by Wim | with 34 comment(s)
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Save Wimdows and my letter to Bill Gates
Looks like MS legal is on a mad crusade. If I don't just hand over my domain names Wimdows.net and Wimdows.com, legal action will follow. Read all about it here: www.savewimdows.com And find my open letter to Bill Gates here . Why can't they just leave...
Posted: Mar 08 2005, 11:10 AM by Wim | with 3 comment(s)
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Xml Serialization and the XmlArray and XmlArrayItem control attributes
We all know -or should know- that when using XML Serialization either over SOAP or manually, we can control the serialized output with so called control attributes. Well known examples are the XmlElementAttribute and the XmlAttributeAttribute. I think...
Posted: Aug 12 2004, 09:10 PM by Wim | with 3 comment(s)
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