~mkw

I have noticed a number of server controls people have put together lately, some commercial but most free on places like Code Project that always render out with the generic tag prefix. It occured to me that the control of this is not readily obvious so maybe I should be kind and point out that you can change this. Lets suppose I was a commercial control vendor named 'Some Company' and wanted to have the prefix 'soc' for my server controls. I would use something called the TagPrefixAttribute to force this behavior. By placing this code in my AssemblyInfo.cs file I get the desired affect.

Never really cared until I realized I was repeating the same old task over and over, and I love to automate that type of situation.

Rob introduced us recently to the provider model being implemented in V2; the similaraties of this description really reminded of the proxy design pattern.

Is it just me or does the resemblence scare anyone else??? Dr Phil is really Steve Ballmer and the
whole Dr. Phil phenomenon is some kind psycho-subversive ploy from Microsoft take over the world!

Check out this SQL Centric .NET Code Generator!

[UPDATE]
Scott pointed out the the fact that you can force file names in a download using content-disposition. This is probably the easiest way but the solution listed below will allow you to call to files that do not exists; ie KentuckyThirdDistrict.xls?querystringcrap and the file will download as KentuckyThirdDistrict. Oh well, I did it the hard way :)

Usually I dont care about traffic stats and such but I was reading some of the news generated by my latest project and noticed that for a time we were one of the 300 busiest sites on the net! Since May we have seen over 120 million hits and Win2K3 is loving it!

Robert McLaws wants to why so many people are making O/R Mapping tools?