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Maybe this will help somebody now or in the future.
I was working on some dynamic dropdown lists (3 exactly) interacting together and some databinding.
You know you choose a menu and the other ones populate in function of the first one.
Easy? Yes and no.

I had some bugs coming randomly about the fact my code was trying to select multiple elements in one of the dropdown.

My point here is that whatever I could do, Try..Catch was not able to trap the error.

Apparently the problem come because the dropdown is render by .Net only at  the end (HTMLTextwriter). So of course you have no idea which line in your code create the wrong statement.

Annoying because I had no way to identify the issue.

So my modest advice if this happens to you, transform your dropdown as listboxes object.

You will be able to set the selectionmode as multiple and magically your code will work, exposing clearly then the faulty multi selection on one of your lists.

Just to avoid the long posts (interesting anyway) and the long code listings (like some today ;-) , can we all be agree to use the Articles features we have on this blog ?

I think , and it's just my opinion, the main feed should show only short posts, announcements, and eventually some links to a more explicit article.

What do you think ?

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A simple yet effective way to keep track of your current programming tasks. Very cool tool, when you have to manage many projects and want to remember the tasks to do

Just reading the post from Jan Tielens  about the Belgian .Net bloggers and this give me an idea.

What's about an Irish .Net bloggers feed. I have some webspace somewhere so eventually I could easily setup a such thing.

I use Code Library since few days now, and it's really a must-have tool for all developers, .Net or not

Now I discovered that I can almost store anything in the SQL database, so I am actually starting to implement my browser favorites.

Just because Code Library has an integrated browser, and a node system to let me organize better than ever my best pages.

The fact that everything is in one place give me also a breeze, and I can now think about a backup of one database.

Selectors are one of the most important aspects of CSS as they are used to "select" elements on an HTML page so that they can be styled.