Steve Wellens
Programming in the .Net environment
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A ‘Simple’ Asp.Net Custom Server Control
A user on the Asp.Net forums, where I moderate, asked how to list a bunch of files in a directory as hyperlinks on a web page so the user could click on them. I thought this was probably an often performed task and decided create a Server Control to encapsulate it.
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Can the C# ‘var’ Keyword be Misused?
More and more often I've been seeing C# code like this:
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Why SQL Updates Fail – Five Reasons
"The SQL command ran, there's no error message but nothing changed! What's going on? Do you think it's a virus? Maybe there's a bug in .NET!"
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Twin Cities Code Camp – October 24, 2009
The seventh Twin Cities Code Camp will be held Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM on the University of Minnesota Campus.
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CompareValidator’s Hidden Gem (It does data type validation)
Man is small and the .NET environment is vast. After years of working in the .NET environment, you can still find new and amazing features. A user on the Asp.Net forums posted this feature I had never discovered…so I thought I'd pass it along.
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Debugging XML Transforms (XSLT) with Visual Studio
XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
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How to Fill a ListBox/DropDownList from an Enum
There was a question about this on the Asp.Net forums and after a quick search I didn't find a good generic function so I thought I'd supply one.
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Speed Up the Visual Studio Toolbox
There are plenty of tips out on the web that I see no need to repeat here. But this one made such a remarkable difference on my box that I had to post it….
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What’s the Deal with Interfaces?
This post is for beginners.
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Serializing and Deserializing Objects…to and from…XML
Over on the Asp.Net forums I recently had the opportunity* to help a few lost souls by showing them how to serialize objects to XML and deserialize the XML back into objects. Since the question has come up more than once, I decided to BLOG it so I could refer similar questions in the future to this post.