It has been a long time coming. For the first time ever, I have a reliable, affordable asp.net host. I can’t believe I am *HAPPILY* using a hosting service from GoDaddy. I have been averse to go godaddy over the years, but im a .net develoepr. How am I supposed to pass up $5 / [...]
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.Net Hosting
Today I created a Windows web hosting account so I could start testing my new CMS project. The current version is extremely basic and lacking in content, but it works and is improving daily. The rendering engine is at a point where I am ready to begin connecting everything to the database. Once I get [...]
sharptube
For the past week, I have been working on creating a content management system, using a template I found on oswd.org. As I was writing the boring stuff, I thought about several more interesting components I could create. The first thing that came to mind was an easy way to display a video from any [...]
Master Page Name Mangling
I just read over some of my oldest posts, and found this gem. While I stand by it still, the code is unreadable, and using some class names that will not be relevant to your project. Mayhaps a better approach would be to create a class to implement in pages where needed. Again, this is [...]
Mono Project
Mono Project Now you can write AND run .net code on pretty much anything, for free. With Mono’s newest release, you can use Visual Basic. I’m not sure why you would want to, but you can if you feel the urge.
VB.Net and C# Comparison
Side by side comparison of VB.Net and C# syntax. This was very useful for me when starting out in C# since I already had VB.Net experience.
Pixel2life Free Tutorial Search Engine
Pixel2life is an awesome source of tech tutorials including graphic design, coding, 3D animation, photoshop, and on and on. There are tons of things to learn there.
Modal Dialog Forms
Personally, I don’t like using Modal Dialogs because they are IE only – BUT some times thats what the client wants, so thats what they get. One of the biggest annoyances when using Modal Dialogs is the little quirk of opening a new window when trying to submit a form located within the dialog. The [...]
Name Mangling, Solution 3
UPDATE: Master pages are quite useful. Use them when applicable, but pay careful attention when you have thousands of lines of legacy javascript. I will leave the original post as is…this is a learning experience for me as well. Note my frustration below: /UPDATE UPDATE 2: Paragraph 2 doesn’t make any sense to people that [...]
Name Mangling, Solution 2
Here is a much cleaner solution. Instead of having to modify all of your javascript calls to use a new function to get elements by partial id or name, you can put a recursive function in the Master Pages onload, which will walk through all the controls and create a javascript variable named with the [...]
