So, this is kind of embarrassing, that it took me a while to figure this out. I have not been doing pure asp.net server control programming for a while, but I figure since it took me a while, maybe there is someone else in the same boat. So, you have a GridView or DetailsView that has standard “Edit” “Update” “New” type command buttons on them. The way they get there is by having the declaration something like this: … Continue Reading
How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)
Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts
Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed hosting solutions company specializing in Microsoft technologies. I’ve used their basic services for quite a while and have always been very happy. It has always seemed that anytime I’ve called them (and it always seems like the middle of the night) one of their tech support staff is always available to help me, and go the extra mile if necessary. The company I’m now working at is small and we don’t have a lot of resources to maintain hardware and do operating system type support. We do have a high load requirement so we need a very robust supported … Continue Reading
ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here

At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be showing how to build a simple asp.net application that lets you Create, Update, Delete and Edit Membership data using the ASP.NET built in membership providers. I will be leverage code from an MSDN article I wrote a while back here along with the URL to the meetup location. http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-ExtJS-Meetup-Group/calendar/10302891/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478947.aspx My plan is to do a progression where I start with a trivial GridPanel, then work myself in 5 steps to a full working membership editor that looks like this: … Continue Reading
How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location
Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it's nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the generated code. Also, sometimes, you want to delete those files because asp.net is confused and is reusing old ones. So, here is the magic lines of code you need. … Continue Reading