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A better web messagebox

clock January 25, 2009 14:39 by author frank
Web apps are very different from windows apps.  One big difference is displaying messages to the user.  In a windows app you can easily popup a message box and allow the user to click ok it or you can change the text in a status bar to let the user know something happened.  Web apps... [More]

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Free Website Monitoring

clock September 21, 2008 10:15 by author frank
Came across this site that offers free website monitoring.  http://www.montastic.com/servers It appears they only test if the server is actually up so if your site responds with an error page this will not do any good.

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How to make a CheckBox fire the ItemCommand Event of a Repeater

clock April 26, 2008 10:11 by author frank
At work today I tried to do something I though would be simple, I needed to add a check box control to a repeater's item template and have it fire the ItemCommand event on the repeater.  The button and link button controls do this without a problem but for some reason Microsoft decided th... [More]

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Exception handling with generics and a common result class

clock February 10, 2008 17:42 by author frank
For some time now, I have been using a pattern I call “Common Function Result” to deal with errors and return values from functions. When I first learned about .Net and learned about try/catch blocks, I thought they were great. I thought they were leaps and bounds above the classic VB On... [More]

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How to use a ConfigurationElementCollection with custom attributes

clock February 4, 2008 15:11 by author frank
The other day I was working on a utility class that did xslt transformations and I wanted to make it read some file paths from the app/web.config file.  I found some great examples on the web about using custom configuration sections for .Net 2.0 (just seach google for &qu... [More]

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