
January 25, 2009 14:39 by
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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...
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September 21, 2008 10:15 by
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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April 26, 2008 10:11 by
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...
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February 10, 2008 17:42 by
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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...
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February 4, 2008 15:11 by
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...
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