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Why does writing valid css for…

Nov 22nd, 2009 by Simon Steed

Why does writing valid css for IE6, 7 & 8 need to be so hard – firefox just, well works! grrrrrrrrrr

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Google producing Chrome OS – w…

Nov 20th, 2009 by Simon Steed

Google producing Chrome OS – whatever next, missions to mars?

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asp.net cassini comes to the r…

Nov 19th, 2009 by Simon Steed

asp.net cassini comes to the rescue – open source, dont ya love it …

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Anyone managed to run an asp.n…

Nov 19th, 2009 by Simon Steed

Anyone managed to run an asp.net website complete with dataset capabilities on a CDRom? Let me know what solution you came up with!

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Well another project successfu…

Nov 17th, 2009 by Simon Steed

Well another project successfully (cough) rolled out today – http://www.aidsalliance.org – my last 7 weeks of hard graft! Phase 2 now !!!!

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By default, you cannot group radiobutton controls within a repeater as the repeater mangles the names. I had this exact problem when changing from checkboxes to radio buttons – after searching Google for 10 mins, I found a post at the following site by Eric Smith which i’ll copy the relevant info here so I don’t lose it http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_controls/custom/article.php/c12371/ Add the following Javascript code to your page:

function SetUniqueRadioButton(nameregex, current)
{
   re = new RegExp(nameregex);
   for(i = 0; i < document.forms[0].elements.length; i++)
   {
      elm = document.forms[0].elements[i]
      if (elm.type == 'radio')
      {
         if (re.test(elm.name))
         {
            elm.checked = false;
         }
      }
   }
   current.checked = true;
}

Now for the repeater itself, The code is linked to the Repeater through the ItemDataBound event. For it to work properly, you need to know the name of the Repeater control, as well as the GroupName you’re assigning to the RadioButtons. In this case, I’m using rptPortfolios as the name of the Repeater, and Portfolios as the group name:

protected void rptPortfolios_ItemDataBound(object sender,
                                           RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
   if (e.Item.ItemType != ListItemType.Item && e.Item.ItemType
      != ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
      return;

   RadioButton rdo = (RadioButton)e.Item.FindControl("rdoSelected");
   string script =
      "SetUniqueRadioButton('rptPortfolios.*Portfolios',this)";
   rdo.Attributes.Add("onclick", script);

}

What billing and purchase trac…

Nov 7th, 2009 by Simon Steed

What billing and purchase tracking (ok accounting) tools do you use on your mac? Currently using iRatchet for billing but need expenditure 2

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Get 6 top mac apps for free wi…

Nov 7th, 2009 by Simon Steed

Get 6 top mac apps for free with MacHeist – http://www.macheist.com/

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Just fulfilled another photo o…

Nov 1st, 2009 by Simon Steed

Just fulfilled another photo order for two clients – need to improve workflow, it’s good, just not as good as it can be

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Imminent impact @MacHeist (151…

Nov 1st, 2009 by Simon Steed

Imminent impact @MacHeist (151.7,174.4) Witness it and get DaisyDisk ($20) for FREE to reclaim GBs of space on your Mac! http://macheist.com

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