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Basic Date Picker Control Update
Published 07-18-2006 11:53 AM | jokiz
We have decided to use the free BDPLite control as the date picker control for our small web application. The ease of use of the control and its simple style gave me the push to use it (and the prompt reply from its product manager for some concerns)...
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BasicDatePicker Control
Published 05-18-2006 6:41 PM | jokiz
in my quest yesterday to find a free datepicker control for our application, i bumped into BasicDatePicker . they have this lite version of their control ( http://www.basicdatepicker.com/BDPLite ) which is free. i immediately hook it up in our application...
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using free controls/components
Published 05-18-2006 1:16 PM | jokiz
i have been using a number of free asp.net controls for our current project simple because i don't have to redo what the gurus have done and i still haven't finished the asp.net server controls book. i have chosen scott mitchell's menu for our project...
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table format using repeater
Published 05-03-2006 8:16 PM | jokiz
i wanted to enclose my displayed data in an html table using a repeater control so i immediately followed the articles that i've read about repeater controls. i declare a table tag in the headertemplate and a table end tag in the footertemplate. <asp...
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Repeater and AlternatingItemTemplate
Published 04-26-2006 1:57 PM | jokiz
i lost a few minutes today trying to figure out databinding with a repeater control. to tell you the truth i have never used the said control in a project since i am a fan of the datagrid. i always have a notion that the repeater control is for the advanced...
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metabuilders' master pages
Published 04-24-2006 6:58 PM | jokiz
i am currently designing the pages for our web application (.NET 1.1). this is the first time that i will be designing it and i am very eager to use metabuilder's master pages. the first time i saw it in use is with community server 1.1. if you have seen...
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Miguel Castro @ dnrtv
Published 03-30-2006 9:30 PM | jokiz
i just saw the first episode of DNRTV (dotnetrocks tv) about webcontrols. fantastic pioneer episode and excellent presentation by Miguel Castro. i noticed though that the pro developers have been using third party refactoring tools eventhough they are...
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RowSelectorColumn of MetaBuilders
Published 12-22-2005 12:56 PM | jokiz
I was revising a page where a user selects an item from a grid and does a very intensive processing. User can select a number of items from the grid, since it uses a checkbox column and since it performs a very intensive processing i decided to switch...
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Combobox SelectedIndexChanged vs SelectionChangeCommitted
Published 11-23-2005 11:05 PM | jokiz
In ASPNET we only have SelectedIndexChanged ( DropDownList ), in Windows Forms we have both, but which one to use? My first .NET project is a Windows Application which uses databinding a lot and we were using SelectedIndexChanged of Combobox back then...
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DatakeyNames for ASPNET 2.0
Published 10-22-2005 1:58 AM | jokiz
ASP.NET 2.0 GridView comes with DataKeyNames property as part of its improved security. It is the equivalent of using DataKeyField in ASPNET 1.0 to store the PKID used in databinding. Data will be saved as part of the grid's viewstate and is therefore...
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ASPNET Validation Controls
Published 06-09-2005 9:28 AM | jokiz
I was reading Stephen Walther’s ASP.NET Unleased book when I found this excellent behavior of Validation Controls. Initially, I thought they just generate client-side scripts to validate them inputs. Then he raised the issue on some browsers with disabled...
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Talk about a breaking change
Published 05-03-2005 6:27 PM | jokiz
Last time, I reported a bug on the ToolBar control of Windows Forms which I have discovered upon a query of an officemate. I just saw that there is an update on my reported bug as Won’t Fix due to a breaking change, :p.
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Strongly-typed Collection’s Add and AddRange methods
Published 04-14-2005 3:41 PM | jokiz
The CollectionCodeDomSerializer uses reflection to serialize a serializeable collection properties to locate methodinfo with “Add” and “AddRange” as names. We have a coding convention here to use prefix to clearly distinguish methods from properties,...
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Property Naming WTF
Published 03-18-2005 3:53 PM | jokiz
I got tired of seeing a common property of our controls (since it is part of an interface) and this week, I got fed up and can’t take it anymore seeing them. AlignmentInContainer You might suggest ContainerAlignment but layout properties obviously relates...
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System.Windows.Forms.Control$ControlCollection class
Published 03-04-2005 6:18 PM | jokiz
I tried to use the ControlCollection class defined inside the System.Windows.Forms.Control to use as temporary storage of layout-affected controls in my last post. Not knowing the internals of the said class, I got some problems when child controls of...
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