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September 2006 - Posts

Student no more and TDD

Some of you will already know this but I've now finished Uni and have started work doing .NET development. Currently I'm maintaining a ASP.NET 1.1 application but will soon be rewriting it in .NET 3.0. It's an exciting time and I've already got stuck Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:22 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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The Beta Battle: Yahoo Vs MicroSoft

I've been trying out Live Mail Beta and also Yahoo! Mail Beta and I'm just awed the amazing UI. I think I like Yahoo! better. Check out the number of items in the context menu! Yahoo! Drag N Drop a Blog Post into a folder: Yahoo! right click context menu: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:11 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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A Simple Generic TextBox Control

As I've got more and more into Generics I've started to realise how powerful they are. For example. Converting strings in a textbox to other types is always annoying. So what I thought of was having a generic Text property on the TextBox control. However Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:32 AM by jonathanparker | 2 Comments

ASP.NET Data binding Tips

Here's a tip if you are trying to format a databound field in a GridView, FormsView or DetailsView: You need to turn OFF HtmlEncode if you want to use the DataFormatString attribute of the BoundField tag. Otherwise you'll get some unexpected results. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:33 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

Subversion installation

We're using Subversion at work and so I thought I'd give it a try at home too. Turns out it's not that hard to install if you follow this great post by Joe White: http://excastle.com/blog/archive/2005/05/31/1048.aspx Now back to the real coding! Read More...
Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 10:42 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments