If you often use shortcut keys to navigate the web or any other program for that matter, you probably expect the ESC key to close popups and message boxes (alerts). When using popup windows on the web, this is however not the case. If you use popups to show full sized images of thumbnails, it would be natural to press the ESC key in the expectation of the popup to close. To achieve this functionality, we have to place a little JavaScript in the popup window. Add the ... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

Today I had to find a way to force x number of rows on a GridView. The problem is that if the GridView.PageSize is larger than the number of rows you are data binding, the GridView itself gets smaller in the height. You often see it when paging through the pages of a grid. The last page is always shorter than the rest, because there are fewer rows. That is usually not a issue, but I had to keep our designers happy. It is actually pretty simple in a class that inherits fro... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

I used nDoc all the time back in the days of Visual Studio 2003. nDoc is a tool that creates documentation based upon the XML comment you write in your source code files. Then came VS 2005 and, as far as I understand, nDoc had to be rewritten in order for Generics to work. That was back in the Whidbey beta 1 time frame in late 2004, and is still stuck there. I have searched the web many, many times, trying to find a substitute to nDoc. I didn't find squat. I hav... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

As you may know by now, I’m not a sucker for buzz words. On the contrary, I like facts, logic, and good old thinking. Not some new fashionable buzz word about something that really isn't new or any more exiting than it ever was, just because the right people start blogging about it. AJAX comes to mind here in particular. Is it just me or does it seem that developers are the only ones not jumping head first on the buzz word hype? Think about it. Developers are the ones imp... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

The product manager at Traceworks and my boss, Morten Wulff, sent me the eBook Getting Real by 37signals on e-mail last friday. I was a little reluctant to read it, because it was written by the guys from 37signals. They have become much hyped amongst the designers at my workplace and the name 37signals is almost a buzz word like web 2.0 and AJAX. It’s not unusual to hear one of the designers use a sentence like “I like that lamp on your desk, it’s very web 2.0”. ... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

I redesigned this blog yesterday because the old design was pretty boring. The idea is to keep the design as clean and simple as  possible, but still be nice to the eye. I'm not sure it is good enough yet, I feel like something's missing. It is made like a dasBlog theme and I would like to share the it to anyone interested, I just have to be sure I'm done before releasing it to the public. If you are using dasBlog and are interested in this theme, please let me ... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

I really hoped that IE7 with it's new XMLHTTP engine (AJAX engine if you will), would out perform the old IE 6 by far. IE 6 is the slowest of the main browsers out there. Firefox and Opera is much faster processing AJAX. I really don't know why. Is it the transport to and from the server or is it simply just the html rendering performed by JavaScript? Maybe it's the DOM handling? I don't know. The end result on the other hand, I know very well. I'm an IE man and have... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

You have probably at some point clicked the wrong input button on a web page, and something bad happened. You deleted the wrong user, submitted to the wrong newsletter or something similar. Wouldn't it have been nice if you had been asked to confirm a critical decision like that? In ASP.NET it is so easy to create functionality around post backs caused by input buttons or similar click-controls. This is also the reason why it is important to let the user confirm actions to av... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

Earlier today, I posted a method that returns the total size of a directory, including all subdirectories. It returns the bytes and not kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes, so I write a little formatting method to do just that. private string SizeFormat(float size, string formatString) {     if (size < 1024)         return size.ToString(formatString) + "bytes";     if ... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!

For some reason, you cannot retrieve the total size of a directory in .NET, including subdirectories, without a workaround. I always found it odd, that some of the most basic features is not implemented in the .NET CLR by default. The list is very short though, since the CLR is huge. I already wrote about the missing Visual Basic functions in C#. Here is another little helpful method that returns the total size of a directory in bytes private double size = 0; ... [More]* $4.95/month ASP.NET Hosting with FREE SQL 2012 DB! – Click Here!