At tonight’s meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in 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:   [...]

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So, the problem is you have a list that you want to retrieve from that contains multiple values.  Say for example, you have a list of 5 cities and you want to retrieve a list of people in some combination of those cities.  If you use the class SelectValue method with ControlParameter in

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In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a forum post.   So, I have to say one of my main motivations for doing posts is I enjoy helping others through problems.  It gives me a certain satisfaction to know that I [...]

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As a moderator in the DropDownList into a template.  From there replace the

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A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette

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Just a short ramble on when to use string verses use String in C#. Basically they compile to the same IL code

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A short post and example on how to use the C# syntax Using. The example is for an ado.net business object that can be used with an ObjectDataSource. This saves you the trouble of disposing of your objects properly, as well as doing it at the right place.

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This article shows how to set the default Value of a DropDownList Control when using asp.net 2.0. It uses the DataBound event to do it. A full page example which can be cut and paste is included

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Using the DevExpress CloudControl in the ASP.NET 2.0 Silicon Valley Code Camp’s web site was easy. In this short post, you’ll hear about the details and see some code.

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In this article, a very simple method is demonstrated for logging text data in an asp.net 2.0 application. It’s safe, reliable, but not very elegant. Just what you need when you want to crank something out for testing or proof of concept. It uses StreamWriter and MapPath to get it’s job done.

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This article discusses a best practices method for automatically having the debugger stop on unhandled exceptions in visual studio 2005 or 2008

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Day 1 at Teched in Orlando has been great so far. My helper, Steve Carroll, and a cool Visual Studio tip for doing tracking while debugging is explained.

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Back in January of 2006, I published on MSDN an article and source code for managing ASP.NET 2.0 Membership users with an ObjectDataSource.  Since I'm not much of a VB person, I only published them in c#.  since then, I've had hundreds of requests for this code in VB.  Until now, I've had to send an excuse for not having it.  Now, thanks to Dave at Tangible Solutions Software, we now have a VB version.

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Code Camp Presentation at LA’s Rock and Roll Code Camp. Lots of nuts and bolts about using ObjectDataSoruce including a real life example using the enterprise data block.

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A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique for doing this. It only works with SqlServer but could could be modified for other databases.

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The article below has a minor improvement to the previous article listed on this web site. Specifically, the previous article used the DropDownList as a mechanism to actually retrieve the data for the purposes of storing it in a local Dictionary. This article simply calls the ObjectDataSource directly to retrieve an IEnumerable type and iterates over that. Below is article with the updates. (Original Article is: http://peterkellner.net/2006/08/30/smalllistaccess/)

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This article will show how to implement a showall item in a DropDownList using GridView with ASP.NET 2.0. It does it by dynamically changing the SelectParameters associated with a SqlDataSource.

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In this article we will demonstrate a technique used to automatically add Wiki Pages to PBWiki using the not quite released API provided by the peanut butter guys. The demonstration will involve integrating scheduled presentations at our Silicon Valley Code Camp on October 7th and 8th each with its own Wiki Page. Without the API, creating and linking the presentation to a Wiki page would have to be an ugly manual process involving the dreaded cut and pasting of URL’s.

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This article shows how to use Expression Builders in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the current logged in user. DataBinding will not work so Expression Builders is the ticket. A small source file is created, the refernces to web.config are shown and a simple example is built.

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This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a small, medium and large bmp file. It also discusses using the DefaultHttpHandler.

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