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May
8
2008

How to install the Ajax Control Toolkit for Visual Studio 2008

 

Install the ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 extensions here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca9d90fa-e8c9-42e3-aa19-08e2c027f5d6&displaylang=en
Download this (AjaxControlToolkit.zip)
and unpack it to a folder on your local computer.
Open Visual Studio, right click on Tools and create a new tab. Call it Ajax Controls.
Right click the tab and pick Choose Items…
Browse to the directory where you unpacked the toolkit, browse to the Sample Web Site
folder, [...]

Apr
30
2008

Matt Berseth: Building a Grouping Grid with the ASP.NET 3.5 LinqDataSource and ListView Controls

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So for a recent research project, I decided I would look into the LinqDataSource’s
control GroupBy and OrderGroupBy attributes
to see if they could be used to help me build a grid that supports grouping.ÂÂ
Below is the final screen shot for my reference application.  The grid shows
the rows in the Northwind Orders table – grouped by the [...]

Oct
16
2007

Launching and Monitoring External Programs from VB.NET Applications

 

With .NET things have gotten much simpler. The System.Diagnostics namespace exposes
a Process class that you can use to launch external programs. At the simplest level,
you can launch a new process with the shared Process.Start method, passing it either
the name of an executable file or a filename with an extension associated with an
executable application. For example, [...]

May
22
2007

Visual How Tos for Sharepoint 3.0

Each of the links in this collection has a short article with a video that shows some
of the highlights. I am particularly interested in Creating
a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 because
it talks about adding a custom menu item to a list or document library that will then
launch a custom [...]

Jan
30
2007

Integrating Visio 2007 and Active Directory

Cool article that demonstrates several concepts in programming Visio 2007. This sample
uses a template, connects to Active Directory based on input from the user, dynamically
populates a drawing with user objects, dynamically fills in custom properties like
ldap path for each user object, displays different icons if a user is disabled or
locked out, and gives some right [...]

Jan
7
2007

CompareValidator: Validate dates, integers, doubles, and currency WITHOUT RegularExpressionValidators (.net 1.1 & 2.0)

Article about using the compare validator instead of a RegularExpressionValidator
to check for a valid date.

Link
here

Oct
12
2006

Registration WebPart for Forms Authentication in MOSS 2007

Excerpt:

With the option to create custom authentication providers in MOSS 2007,
a lot of new ways for user management and registration can be designed. Via VB_tech you
can download
webparts for registration using forms authentication:

“Once you’ve got your WSSv3 site setup for anonymous access and you’ve
configured it for forms authentication you are probably going to want your users to
be [...]

Aug
22
2006

Coding4Fun: Keeping Track of Time

 

Time and how we use it is a matter of great importance to many people. I am certainly
no exception, frequently working on two to five projects at a given time. Whether
it’s just being curious about how much time you are spending on various classes at
school, or billable projects, time tracking can be tedious. Do you [...]

Aug
14
2006

ScottGus Blog: Building a Photo Tagging Site using ASP.NET 2.0, LINQ and Atlas

A real project to learn to practice using LINQ and Atlas. Now if I can find
the time to go through it.

Excerpt:

Over the last few days I’ve spent
some spare time playing around with LINQ and LINQ for SQL (aka DLINQ) – both of which
are incredibly cool technologies. 

 

Specifically, I’ve been experimenting
with building a photo management application that provides [...]

Aug
14
2006

ScottGu’s Blog: Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security using Windows Authentication

Excerpt:

You
are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want
to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it.  Specifically,
you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”,
and “administrators” for the application, and grant/deny end-users access
to functionality within the application based on whether they are in these roles.

Because
your application is an Intranet solution, you [...]