Web Design
Using and grouping RadioButton Controls in a Repeater
Nov 10th
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 More >
Getting the control that posted back to asp.net application
Oct 7th
Need to know which specific control posted back to your page? (Original article at http://geekswithblogs.net/mahesh/archive/2006/06/27/83264.aspx)
/// <summary>
/// Tells us which control posted back
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public Control getPostBackControlName()
{
Control control = null;
//first we will check the “__EVENTTARGET” because if post back made by the controls
//which used “_doPostBack” function also available More >
Preparing an asp.net master page for print only view – stripping out css etc
Oct 7th
Searching google turned up nothing on this so did some digging in MSDN and worked out a method of disabling all the style sheets, javascript etc to produce a text only page:
1/ Add a content block to your master page – i’ve called mine ‘cssContentHolder’
<asp:contentplaceholder id=”cssContentHolder” runat=”server”>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”css/master.css” type=”text/css” media=”all” />
<link href=”css/flyout.css” media=”screen” rel=”stylesheet” More >
ARGHH Wordpress is playing up on me :(
May 1st
Not a happy bunny this morning. I uploaded a long post this week regarding using the Windows Mixer control API and the formatting is so screwy it’s not true.
Even the title does not appear on the summary page, rewritten it twice already but still no joy
Firefox 3.0 is Europe’s most popular browser | News | TechRadar UK
Apr 1st
Firefox 3.0 is officially the most popular web browser in Europe, according to StatCounter’s latest statistics.
Although Mozilla’s browser lags behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer if you add all of the latter’s different versions together, FireFox has finally pipped IE7 as the most used individual browser version – with 35.05 per cent of the market, according to More >
URL Rewriting in Asp.net using URLRewriter
Apr 1st
One way to get yourselves rated better in the search engines is to get rid of the basic aspx page and replace it with something much more descriptive so this article goes on how to use URLrewriting in your project.
Developers issue death warrant for IE6 | News | TechRadar UK
Feb 24th
A campaign calling for the immediate death of Internet Explorer 6 is picking up pace, with a host of developers castigating the browser that ‘hindered the development of the web’.
.net magazine is supporting a campaign to rid the world of IE6 – a browser that is still being used by a large proportion of people More >