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  • GridView Edit, Update, Delete, Paging, Sorting using DLINQ

    Introduction:

    Microsoft DLINQ is part of the .NET 3.0 framework. DLINQ allows the developer to iterate through data sources which includes SQL SERVER databases. In this article I will demonstrate how you can use DLINQ to perform editing, updating, paging, sorting and deleting operations on the GridView control.

  • Styling file inputs with CSS

    File inputs HTML tags are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.

  • Monitor your clipboard

    Clipboard Text Scrubber is a handy little application that sits in your system tray and monitors your clipboard. When it finds any text on the clipboard it will “scrub” (or “clean”) that text, to remove all formatting. This is great for copying and pasting text into emails, documents or anywhere else. You can also (optionally) remove all HTML tags from the clipboard text, which is excellent for copying and pasting things from the web, without getting all the extra markup. Anyone that uses notepad to scrub their text will love this application. You can have Clipboard Text Scrubber automatically scrub text as it detects it, or you can manually scrub it by right-clicking on the system tray icon. When Clipboard Text Scrubber is scrubbing text the system tray icon will change, just to let you know it’s hard at work.

  • DisplayFusion to manage multiple screens

    DisplayFusion is a fantastic (and free) new application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to integrating with Flickr for image searching, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows.

  • A Web Spider Library in C#

    The classes implement a basic web spider (also called "web robot" or "web crawler") to grab web pages (including resources like images and CSS), download them locally and adjust any resource hyperlinks to point to the locally downloaded resources.

  • LINQ and Geocoding

    Mapping applications are everywhere, and having “locational awareness” is paramount when running customer-related applications. Gathering stats about a user’s IP can tell you a lot about their physical location, which in turn can tell you a lot about the market you’re serving.