By Wil Dobson on 8/6/2008 2:23 PM

Back in the day... 8 years ago (year 2000, remember it?) I built a Star Trek themed Media Player skin for PocketPC... 8 years later, I am doing GOOGLE searches on my name (to see if that criminal history was erased properly) and there is a group of people discussing the very project I am writing of now! YES!

I hadnt thought of it for so long, and am not even certain I have an archived copy of it on any of my old backup CDs, but here it is! I havent tested this skin on Windows Mobile 5 or higher, but believe it should work on any version of the Pocket PC thats not a Smartphone. 

I present it here for your downloading pleasure... ... Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 4/9/2008 1:52 PM

My current employer stores DataTables in the server memory to speed up reports for its customers. But to clear that cache, it would take an emergency change request, and a modification to the web.config, to force the webserver to clear the application cache. I did it with a button-click! Here's how. Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 4/9/2008 7:39 AM

A reader on FORUMS.ASP.NET recently requested some information on the following: "I want to calculate the page load time, like how much time it took for an particular page to load." My answer to this issue was to add yet another item to my ToolBox... Here's the code! Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 3/24/2008 11:28 AM

Want your GridView Headers to remain floating atop while scrolling your data? Do it with CSS! Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 3/12/2008 8:05 AM

You are unable to bind the selected value of your dropdownlist to your GridViews datasource BECAUSE your dropdownlist has its OWN datasource which it is bound to. Here is my solution... Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 12/20/2007 2:51 PM

You can trigger RowSelected in your gridviews (without the Select linkbutton) by using some client-side code! Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 12/20/2007 2:29 PM

There are plenty of 3rd party products for exporting your GridView data to an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, but it's easy enough to do the old fashion way... Copy and Paste! Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 12/20/2007 12:46 PM

You want to use dropdownlists in a formview control to aid your users in choosing the correct child-table entry. You have the potential for null values, so are having issues avoiding the trouble of directly binding the dropdownlist's selected value. Here's my work-around. Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 12/20/2007 12:29 PM

The more complicated your web forms become, the less often you can predict what buttons will be available. In this post, I demonstrate how to react to button clicks when the button doesn't exist at design-time. Read More »

By Wil Dobson on 12/20/2007 11:18 AM

What is better? C# or VB? The battle lines have been drawn and yet there is no clear winner. Here's my opinion on it. Read More »