PS: ASP.NET

Star Trek LCARS - Pocket PC MediaPlayer Skin

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:23:15 GMT

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...

This skin is provided free of cost, and you may redistribute it as long as you do not modify it. The original copywrite is the following:

// Pocket Windows Media Player v1.0 LCARS Skin File V1.0
// Created by Wil Dobson, PixelSyndicate.com
// Info@PixelSyndicate.com

Clear the WebServer's Application Cache with the click of a button

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:52:58 GMT

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.

How long did it take for my page to load?

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:39:15 GMT

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!

Floating GridView Headers while Scrolling

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:28:14 GMT

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

Binding DropDownLists within a GridView to a child table

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:05:03 GMT

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...

Select GridView rows simply by clicking on the row

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:51:53 GMT

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

Export that GridView as an Excel document

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:29:31 GMT

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!

DropdownList's in FormViews - binding selected value even if the value is NULL or empty

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:46:24 GMT

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.

Responding to Dynamically added button events

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:29:31 GMT

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.

VB.NET vs C#.NET

wdobson@pixelsyndicate.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:18:45 GMT

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.