DotNetKicks.com - new stories

ASP.NET TextBox Submit Form On Enter Key DefaultButton

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:20:12 GMT

Whenever we want user to submit a form by filing out some textboxes on the aspx page, though we provide the button to submit the form but user prefer to press enter and expect the form to be submitted

Search Records In GridView And Highlight Results Asp.Net Ajax

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:19:09 GMT

In this example i am Explaining how to search records in gridview and highlight the results based on search criteria user enter in textbox.

Detect Browser Refresh Avoid events fire in ASP.NET

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:17:17 GMT

If you have created a aspx page using C# and ASP.NET and have put a button on it. And in the Click event of this button if you are inserting some data in database , after click if user refresh the page than click event gets fired again resulting data insertion to database again, to stop events on the page getting fired on browser refresh we need to write bit of code to avoid it

Introducing Printing for Telerik GridView and Scheduler for WinForms

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:30 GMT

Have you ever wondered how to print your Telerik RadGridView and RadScheduler instances for WinForms? I guess you have. Yet, this is one of the most voted features in our Public Issue Tracking System. The good news is that Q1 2011 is close and printing support for RadGridView and RadScheduler will be a part of it.

Merge GridView Header Columns In ASP.NET

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:15:21 GMT

n this example i m explaining how to merge or merging gridView header columns or merging multiple headers in GridView using C# VB.NET and ASP.NET.

Detecting Session Timeout And Redirect To Login Page In ASP.NET

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:42:20 GMT

Detecting Session Timeout and Redirect to Login Page in ASP.NET

Naming Conventions in JustCode

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:09:50 GMT

Choosing appropriate identifiers for the constructs in your code provides better readability and maintainability. With the latest build of Telerik JustCode you can now easily set naming conventions for all your code elements.

Populate DetailsView From GridView Select using DataKeyNames

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:49:04 GMT

Populate Multiple DetailsView From GridView Select Using DataKeyNames In this example i'm explaining how to populate multiple or different DetailsView based on selection of a record in a GridView using Multiple DataKeyNames in ASP.NET.

Cross page posting Submit Form Server.Transfer methods ASP.NET

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:10:54 GMT

Cross page posting in ASP.NET To transer data using cross page posting we need to use FindControl Method we can write code like this

Data Transfer Using QueryStrings Among Asp.Net Pages

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:16 GMT

Several time while developing asp .NET applications we need to transfer data from one page to another, we can achieve this by several methods , some of them are 1. Using QueryStrings

Calling a WCF service from a client without having the contract

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:50:24 GMT

I was asked yesterday in the Hebrew C#/.NET Framework MSDN forums a tough question - is it possible to dynamically call a WCF service using only the contract name, operation name, and metadata address? The short answer is - YES! To see how, check out the code in the blog post.

Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:11:12 GMT

In this article series, we're going to try and tackle a problem (or opportunity, depending on how you want to put it) a lot of business face today: customers expect to be able to use your applications on a multitude of devices, with different form factors, supporting different technologies.

Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:19 GMT

Windows Phone 7 App Development for Beginners #6 Layout

Populate dropdown based selection in DetailsView or GridView

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:27:07 GMT

Populate dropdown based on first in DetailsView GridView

Dynamic CSS with Razor and no LESS (part 1)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:27 GMT

When I customize a web site template, I always replace the color palette looking for a consistent set of colors. In this series I'll tell how I managed to speed up the whole process, by building a set of Razor functions and push the Razor syntax inside a CSS stylesheet.

Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:15:39 GMT

It's been a while since I wrote my last book review, mostly because I'm still trying to figure out when it adds value to write one. For this one it was pretty obvious, there are far too little reviews out there. Being new to NHibernate, and NHibernate being known as having a steep learning curve, I thought it would be a good idea to do some reading. Searching for books on NHibernate 3.0...

Reset PageNumber per Report Group in Telerik Reporting

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:54:14 GMT

In Telerik Reporting, the PageNumber object can only be used in the page header and page footer sections. It contains the current page number and its value is increased with one for every new page. In some scenarios, it is useful to alter the page number based on a condition and the most frequent scenario being asked is resetting the PageNumber after each group.

Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:34:18 GMT

This post describes how to Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

App.config Configuration file magic via Smith.BuildExtensions

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:06:09 GMT

Show how you can do app.config and web.config transformations and share configurations across projects and solutions, so you only have to create your settings in one place.

Why I hate computers (as a software engineer)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:23:20 GMT

As a software engineer I can't live without a computer. I use it for my work, I use it for hobby projects, for blogging, for social networking, for entertainment, and lots of other things. However, I also can't live with them because of various reasons I will explain in this little rant.

Starting TeamCity builds from HipChat using Github Hubot

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:04:00 GMT

After writing about "Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch" I'd like to talk about another integration which is using Github Hubot so that the build could be started directly form a chat room. So using the same idea, which is to extend our development environment, we implemented a way to start TeamCity builds directly from our HipChat room. You could do the same from Campfire for sure.

About Telerik RadTreeView for WinForms and its Supercharged engine

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:41:33 GMT

In Q1 2011 we introduced a highly improved version of the RadTreeView control which had all of its internal parts rebuilt in order to support full UI virtualization and customization. This allowed us to attach a new data engine that provided many new and useful features such as built-in filtering and sorting independent from the external data-sources, and support for CRUD operations. But "Is the new RadTreeView really faster than the previous one"?

Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as Li

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:31:58 GMT

Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile control used as ListBox Items

Clearer MVC

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:56:58 GMT

In every application there are some variables that are set by the ASP.NET application( ASP.NET_SessionId cookie ) and some that are set by the programmer( cached data in Application/Session/Cache/Cookies and so on).I wanted every time to have a page where I can "clear" / delete those - and not found. So it's the Clearer project.

Performance - Using .Net and COM

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:49:50 GMT

Yesterday I was given a task to help improve the performance of a feature. I was told that the feature was written in a very straight forward way, nearly no optimizations taken. The problem was that it took several minutes (yes, minutes) to run, rather than a few seconds or better than that.