Jun 23, 2009
The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this example...
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Tags: ASP.NETCode
Jun 23, 2009
I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble...
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Tags: IISASP.NETMusings
Jun 18, 2009
Many of you have probably read the article on how to install ASP.NET 1.1 on IIS7 on Vista and WS08 (The article can be found at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/472/how-to-install-aspnet-11-with-iis7-on-vista-and-windows-2008/ ). While above works great...
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Tags: ConfigurationASP.NETvista SP2
Jun 18, 2009
We've seen a few issues recently where customers were experiencing very slow async postbacks via an UpdatePanel, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers worked fine. (When I say "very slow," I mean in the neighborhood of 30 seconds!) The cause for...
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Tags: ASP.NETAJAX
Jun 17, 2009
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, we introduced a new feature called Web.Config transformation to help ease the development process of a web application. At different stages during the life cycle of a project, the user usually needs to modify some environment...
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Tags: VWDtips and tricksVisual StudioASP.NET
Jun 15, 2009
With Visual Studio 2008 RTM, JScript validation setting is an option on the HTML validation page on the Options dialog. Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and later, we added a new option page JScript on the Options dialog, see the blog "Introducing JScript...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NETJScript
Jun 15, 2009
Select the lines you want to be commented in your ASPX, HTML, web config file etc and click on the Comment/ Uncomment icon in Toolbar. The comment icon looks like this: The icon for uncomment looks like: Alternatively you can use Keyboard...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NET
Jun 12, 2009
Document Outline window can be launched from the menu View -> Document Outline , or via short cut key Ctrl-Alt-T . The Document Outline window displays a nested, hierarchical tree of the elements and scripts on the page. It gives you a good overview...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NET