Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog

NB! This blog is moved to gunnarpeipman.com

NB! This blog is moved to gunnarpeipman.com

I am writing currently one simple web application that runs on usual hosting environment and also on Azure environment. Web application is already hosted in CodePlex and during next two months I will publish application binaries and also source code. I tested my application in Azure environment and here are some screenshots I made.

After reading the books Ship it! and The Pragmatic Programmer, I suggest you to read both of them, I got some proof that I am right and the fast way I sometimes like to move is not my personal bad behaviour but suggested way to develop software. Officially it is called tracer bullet development. This method suggest you to write some code to make system work for customer so they can see how the system is planned. But this is not a usual prototyping procedure but involves some real coding work too.

I had to write some ASP.NET server controls for our current SharePoint portal project. We have very nice DIV-based layout and using standard components that generate table and a lot of JavaScript seems to me like an bad idea. I found out that server controls put container tags around their mark-up. I needed my own tags around output and I found a way how to achieve it.

When changing tables in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 you may get the following error: Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. I was surprised when I saw this message first but there is very simple solution.

I put up here SharePoint workflow code for the next times when Visual Studio screws some workflow up. It is easy for me to take working code here and it is easy for you too. To make code more clean I removed unused namespaces and refactored code so it is a little bit easier to read.