Most data driven web sites have to manage lots of small lists. Examples include things like states, countries, levels, and even things like sex where you may only have two choices. (especially if you have internationalization issues). The simplest way to store this information is in static lists simply defined programatically. Below is an example of this.
public static string[] MonthNames =
new string[] { “January”,“February”,“March”,
“April”,“May”,“June”,“July”,
“August”,“September”,“October”,“November”,“December”};
This works, but requires you modify your code in order to update a list. Not good in my opinion.
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Using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Design Templates
Author: Peter Kellner
Date: August 27th, 2006
Our Story
It’s Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up and running yesterday! For those of you who don’t know what a codecamp is, basically, it’s a developer to developer weekend meeting where high quality presentations are given to an audience of enthusiastic developers. Typically, 30 or 40 speakers running simultanious presentations to 300 or so attendees. Codecamps are all Volunteer, all free, and always on a weekend. So, our web site needs to allow sign ups for speakers and their presentations, attendess to let us know they are coming, provide information about the Venue as well as ultimately provide scheduling information about classes. Most importantly, it needs to do it with style and pizazz.
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