Category: Programming

May 3, 2008

ASP.NET: Using Hierarchical Data with ObjectDataSource

Filed under: Programming, .NET, Visual Web Developer - 03 May 2008

When Microsoft introduced the SqlDataSource, they made it very easy to add database connectivity to your ASP.NET pages with a minimum of programming. The SqlDataSource (and the related AccessDataSource) allow you to define database connections declaratively - that is, …

April 16, 2008

ASP.NET: Adding an INSERT Command to DataList

Filed under: Programming, .NET - 16 Apr 2008

ASP.NET’s DataList control lets you display a list of data, but also lets you edit the entries in this list (unlike the Repeater control, for example). One thing it won’t let you do, however, is to add a new …

April 9, 2008

Control Freak

Filed under: Programming, Writing - 09 Apr 2008

I have two hobbies: writing and programming. In both of these it’s very important to be able to track your revisions and recover previous versions. For the past year or so I have used the TortoiseSVN client …

April 3, 2008

ASP.NET: Handling Custom Update Commands with ItemCommand

Filed under: Programming, .NET, Visual Web Developer - 03 Apr 2008

When programming an ASP.NET application, it’s very simple to use the built-in Button and LinkButton controls to perform actions like adding a record to a database or saving changes. When you create one of these buttons, the HTML looks …

January 10, 2008

Multi-Threading Made Easy with .NET Framework 2.0

Filed under: Programming, .NET - 10 Jan 2008

The .NET framework, and especially version 2.0, has made life a lot easier for programmers. In that past it wasn’t especially easy to create multi-threaded programs, but now it’s really pretty simple.

I have a program that downloads data from …

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