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December 2006 - Posts

Monday, December 25, 2006 11:14 AM

Doug Reilly Passed Away ...

I was shocked to know today that Doug Reilly passed away!! I offer my deep condolences to his family and to all the fellow MVPs. I once got an email from Doug during the last war we had the last summer, he was making sure I am ok and my family is ok too.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 11:42 AM

My web Pages Starter Kit

The final version of the ‘My Web Pages Starter Kit’ is available on www.codeplex.com/MyWebPagesStarterKit . With the new My Web Pages Starter Kit you can easily create and manage your own website. It enables customers to set up and maintain websites through
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:18 AM

Themes and StyleSheetThemes

A note about Themes and StyleSheetThemes : When you are using a theme, the SKIN files in the Theme folder, will have precedence over the properties you define on a control on a page. When you are using CSS files in the Theme folder, the properties defined
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:24 PM

How to Handle Relative Paths in Master Pages

While reading ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed by Stephen Walther, I found out a nice trick about relative paths in Master Pages. If you are using Relative Paths and you are using ASP.NET controls in your master pages, then the paths are relative to the Master Page
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Saturday, December 09, 2006 8:48 AM

Most Popular Articles on ASPAlliance.com - Part 2

Day after day I am getting to be surprised more and more by the amount of effect my articles are leavingn on my readers from all over the world! Today I was visiting my publisher site to find out that 3 of my articles are having places in the top 5 most
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Friday, December 08, 2006 6:49 AM

Handling NULL Columns when updating

Another tip from the great book by David Sceppa is how to handle null column values: Suppose you have a column in your table in the Database, and that column can have NULL values, the column is named ColA. Now you wanted to updated a record by checking
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Friday, December 08, 2006 4:27 AM

Concurrency in ADO.NET

During my reading to the Microsoft ADO.NET Core Reference by David Sceppa I am getting to learn so many things, among which ways to handle concurrency Options: 1- Include only the Primary Key Columns This way, when User A and User B both read the same
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Monday, December 04, 2006 11:42 PM

Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0.4

Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0.4 Was released on November 18 2006. I strongly recommend checking out this nice set of controls + their source code to use and learn from !!! Regards
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Monday, December 04, 2006 11:02 PM

Susan Warren's XML Edit Grid

An MVP Colleague, Ken Cox , posted a very nice tutorial on the XmlEditGrid Susan Warren created, which is a free control in C# including source code!! Check out the tutorial here: http://authors.aspalliance.com/kenc/xmleditgrid.aspx That is so cool Susan,
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Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:18 AM

.NET Tips and Tricks

I want to share with you a lovely site I passed through tonight, it is full of .NET tips and tricks! Check it here: http://www.bluevisionsoftware.com/WebSite/TipsAndTricks.aspx I am sure you will like it! Regards
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