Back in 2010, I was searching for ASP.NET controls for our team. One member of our group had used oBout and said they were inexpensive and effective. He was right… for an enterprise license, they are extremely inexpensive. And, as long you didn’t try to do too much with them, they could be quite effective. […]
Goodbye oBout, Hello DevExpress Read More »
THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file. OK, normally, that is easy. But, let’s say you mange a bunch of config files, and you want to write a widget that can open any of them and edit them programmatically. That means opening a config file NOT part of your EXE
.NET Configuration File Madness Read More »
Whooo that is a humdinger. Normally, when someone says “I want my class to have access to the current session state!” I look at them funny, but here is the setup… I want to have global.asax set up some session goodies when someone hits my site, then I want all my web pages to work
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OK – so there is no one-size-fits-all way to define the use of BLOBs in your database. But this crazy bandwagon of putting file storage into BLOBs really has me baffled. I think it is…well…down right stupid. Why the metaphor with AIG – because people are treating BLOBs like they represent an additional layer of
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No. You are probably not. Here is a SHORT ANSWER (just to show the concept) for putting an IDENTITY on an existing column, based on what I’ve seen: Use All Tasks -> Generate Scripts to script the schema of the table(s) you want to alter. Script it to an SSMS query window. Go through the
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The short answer? Use SqlDbType.VarChar or SqlDbType.NVarChar with a size of -1. For more info, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399384.aspx. I just put the short answer for those who want… the short answer.
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CAN IT BE? Yes, my friends it is possible… I think. Bottom line is, you can design buttons all day long in PayPal and there are various ways to get them working. However, since I am far too dense for GhostForms, I found my own little path. GO GET YOUR BUTTONS Now, I am not
Down & Dirty .NET PayPal Buttons? Read More »
BACKGROUND Well, if you are like me, you downloaded the Express version of Visual Studio 2008 because you were too impatient to wait the 3 days for the DVD to arrive in the mail. Then it arrived and took 10 years to install, and after firing up Visual Studio 2008, you get a “Package Load
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