Creating an ItemDataBound Event Delegate for a Nested Repeater(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 6 months ago

Today I needed to create a nested grid using repeaters. Pretty common but always a pain in the ass with all Microsoft controls. I needed to nest my repeaters just like you’d nest any other control like the DataGrid or GridView. The issue came up for me when I wanted to create a delegate for my nested repeater (repeater inside my parent). Since a nested control within a control (the nested repeater in this case) is not available at the page level, Intellisense or the compiler will not know that it exists. Because it’s nested inside a parent, it becomes pat of that parent’s collection of objects. read more...

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Initial Server 2008 Pains – Infamous UAC(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 6 months ago

Remember to do one of two things if using Server 2008 for the first ti read more...

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Visual Studio/Intellisense Doesn’t Recognize Web Controls & Code(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Intermittently at times, Visual Studio for some odd reason, refuses to recognize web controls or C# syntax during a build/compile that you know is fine. You’ve included all the right usings, assembly or project references, and the syntax you know worked before, but for some reason it just decides to piss you off when you try to compile by stating it is not familiar with the syntax or control. There are a slew of things one can try in order to sort of kick Visual Studio in the pants when you try to build, and it still can’t seem to notice those web controls even when they are in the designer file and there are no conflicts or syntax issues. Today I has such an issue again. When you exhaust all the tricks of the trade, the next best thing to do is ultimately just recreate the file itself and paste back in your code. read more...

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Converting a Generic List of Custom Objects & Property to a Formatted (codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Today I had the need to take a list of names from a returned list of Custom Objects, and convert one of its properties it to a string that included some HTML. This is nothing fancy, and pretty standard/simple but I thought I’d post about it anyway. Since I did not need a custom ToString() method here to convert all properties of my object, I just created a simple method to iterate through the list of objects and add one of the properties to the StringBuilder object which is ultimately being returned to give me the nice string with HTML. read more...

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N-Layered != N-Tiered: Know the Difference!(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I hear a LOT of developers refer to what are essentially N-Layers as “N-Tiers”. This kind of bugs me a little when I see or hear it from developers. First of all, they are not even close the same thing, and it’s important as a developer to get this straight so that you are using the terminology properly. The difference is simple but very important when you’re talking about your applications. They should not be loose terms and intermingled as about probably 90% of the developers out there that I’ve worked with seem to do. read more...

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Microsoft Failures & Successes(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I will give no explanation, because I think they speak for themselves, but here are some failures & Successes from Microsoft. Failures (not wasting my time on these, they just don’t let me opening code good ORM, Patterns, etc. period) * Typed DataSets * SharePoint 2003 & 2007 * New Entity Framework * MS CRM Successes * C# 3.0 * .NET 3.5 * VS 2008 * ASP.NET MVC Preview * LINQ read more...

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Code Zest Top Developer Coffee Goodies(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

We all know that for most of us who like coffee, it plays a huge part in a developer’s life. For me, it started with the fact that when working for Vitria Technology back in the day, we had a commercial espresso machine in our cafeteria. This is where I learned what espresso is, and what good coffee really is. From then on, I have become a coffee enthusiast and want to have fun and pass coffee information along in this blog when I have some good things to share. There is a difference between so-so coffee and very GOOD coffee. But if you have never really looked into it, you may not know about it. Hopefully I can help make your coffee experience more fun while you code. I’m starting with just a post with some very good links below. read more...

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Red Flag #1: Source Code Continually Does Not Compile in Source Contro(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I’m going to post a series of what I call “Red Flags” in development shops. Things that in some development shops happen frequently & also encompass one or more of the following below: 1) Destruct an overall development shop’s efficiency 2) Produce a team environment with unnecessary stress 3) Happen due to lack of standards/process and expectations 4) Happen as the result of bad management, bad attitudes, lack of professionalism, lack of ethics, or just bad business practice altogether read more...

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When an Interviewer Does Not Give You Enough Time/Opportunities to Ask(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Interviews tend to develop into their own animal. It’s not the fault of the company or manager setting up the interview, but just the mere fact that interviews by nature are typically a very discoverable experience for both sides. Therefore an interview anticipated to be x number of people and x hours could completely changed for both sides and neither really has much control over it because both sides really need to get the information that they need to make that decision. read more...

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“Web 2.0” – A Lame Marketing Term That Means Absolutely Nothing!(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I always love it when you get a cheesy executive/manager who really stretches & attempts to sound technical but fails badly by using the term “Web 2.0”. First off, this term means absolutely nothing specific. I once had a non-technical CIO tell me that “JavaScript based Web Services are what Web 2.0 is all about”. Right then and there I knew he was really reaching for the stars to sound Savvy or technical, but in reality it really comes off pretty cheesy to a developer. read more...

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Enterprise Library 3.1 Log Errors(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Today, I came across a couple of confusing errors while trying to re-setup logging again on a new PC and running my web application. It was throwing an exception logging error for Enterprise Library in my Data Layer. “Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 45” and “Inaccessible logs: Security Error” read more...

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Development Tools I Use & Recommend(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below: read more...

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Interview Questions Every Developer should ask an Employer(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

If you're like me and have been in the IT industry for 5+ years (me 10), you start to realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side in a lot of shops out there. Before I get to the interview questions, I want to start by outlining the general types of shops and types of problems one can encounter in development shops. Characteristics of when the grass may NOT be greener: read more...

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Happy & Effective Development Teams: with Truly Open Feedback Sessions(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

find it astounding how many development shops (from talking to many people over the years including my own experiences) frustrate the hell out of its own very motivated developers and push very good developers away literally. Pushing them away because a manager or set of managers are too stubborn and fail often to truly listen to the very people who they have hired to "do a great job" and to "give advice on what can be improved in order to benefit the business". Or maybe a manager has talked the talked but not walked the walk with their developers giving them a false sense that change can happen o read more...

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Windows Live Writer and Line Return Weirdness(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

The other day, when I started posting my first few posts, I was getting some weirdness in Windows Live Writer as it pertains to carriage returns. For example, when typing a post in Live Writer, a single line return appeared to be placing 3 line returns visually. The end result was a really spaced out looking blog post that just seemed strange to me while I was writing. This problem produced two results: read more...

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Using Fiddler with Firefox for Local Web site Testing Easily with Foxy(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

Fiddler is one of the best tools to analyze web requests sent from a web site and much more. Normally, using Fiddler with FireFox is a huge pain and typically does not work well out of the box when testing localhost requests or any requests for that matter with Fiddler through Firefox. But by using FoxyProxy which is just a nice plug-in to FireFox, it allows you to setup different proxies in FireFox very easily, and you can then hook into Fiddler's proxy quickly, and start to catch requests over the wire when testing local web applicatio read more...

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