Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

I came across this very insightful post on the ASP.NET Forums (remember those?) about the pitfalls of making a DataGrid scroll. Great stuff. I hadn't even thought of trying points 3 and 4 that way.

I don't think I got the chance to blog about this yet, but with all the installer issues I've been having lately, and the lack of tips, I figured I'd better talk about it.

Just to clear the air, I did not delete the announcement I made yesterday to ignore the comments that were made. The post is saved here on my computer, and that's where it will stay. I deleted it because it was causing too many negative problems with many people in this community, so I felt it would be best to remove it. I'm going to re-evaluate how I utilize my blogs, based on extremely constructive comments by WallyM, and move forward later this week. You should already see one major change to a few of my blogs, and more are coming.

I've been blogging here for almost a year now. What a difference a year makes. I was going through some of my old blog posts, looking for some good nuggets of information that I might have forgotten about. These tips have helped me immensely, and I hope they help out some of you guys too.

Over the weekend, I made some serious modification to the ASP.NET Forums 1.0 release to support header and footer controls, for better integration with existing site designs. Jeff Sandquist also made some huge improvements, fixed several long-standing bugs, and added a neat visual smiley panel. It's pretty nifty, and now we're ready to performance test it in a live environment. More improvements are coming, but for now, check it out at http://forums.interscapeusa.com. We'll zip up the source and make it available later on this month, as a courtesy to all ASP.NET Forums 1.0 users.

In an effort to quell some of the naysayers, yet still maintain an effective blog presense, I posted three new entries to my Corporate blog. I will continue to talk about code techniques in the context of my products here, because that's what this blog is for: to talk about what I'm doing with code. Other people on these weblogs do it too, but few of them happen to be selling anything. I will try to save more of the marketing-esque discussions for my corporate blog, since most of you aren't ISVs doing your own thing anyways and it doesn't interest you. That being said, if you want to read more, follow these links...

Did you know that you can trick the DataGrid's ButtonColumn to use an image for a button without having to use a TemplateColumn? It's actually really easy. In the DataGrid Property Builder, change the column's Button Type to “LinkButton”, then use regular HTML for the “Text” property, like so:

For the past few hours I've been working on upgrading the Interscape Store to handle some new promotions we're doing. One of the features I've been wanting to add was the ability to see the cart's total change if you add a promotion to it. Right now, it's not possible because of a limitation in the Commerce framework that I'm using (XHEO|Commerce, it's pretty nifty, but not released yet), but I just finished coding a really elaborate workaround that seems to be doing the trick.