I have been adding the ability to delete multiple items in a ListView for a while now. One thing that has been bugging me though was the user could click the button to delete the selected items even if no items were selected which would popup a delete confirmation. If the user clicked yes, then a po... [More]

Scott Guthrie's post today announcing jQuery will be a standard, supported library in VS/ASP.NET is taking the developer community by storm. Check out these great posts if you haven't seen them yet: jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio - Scott Hanselman Introduction to jQuery Article... [More]

I came across a handy Linq operator called the Except operator today that fulfilled a simple requirement I had to only allow the selection of an item for adding to a group if that item was not already in the group. It worked great and everyone is happy with the end result. For more info on the Excep... [More]

It has always bugged me that when I click cancel in an AjaxControlToolkit ModalPopup that any input fields are not cleared. If you click the the button that causes the popup again, the fields still contain any data that was entered prior to the initial cancel. Demo | Download I have come up with two... [More]

I have some reports on our intranet that look great in color on the screen, but if someone lucky enough to have a color inkjet sitting on their desk prints them it's pretty likely they have no idea how to change the print settings to black and white to save their color ink if they want to. Today I w... [More]

I just un-installed some software that was handling zip activities on my Windows Vista machine and of course after it was un-installed all my zip files were no longer associated with the built in zip utility. A quick search found http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for... [More]

Back in 2005 Omar Al Zabir (Co-founder and CTO of PageFlakes) posted an article on the CodeProject web site Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs that many of you have probably seen. If you liked the idea at the time but didn't do anything with it, you may want to take anoth... [More]

This morning I decided to finally update my blog to the latest version. It's one of those things that I have been meaning to do for a while but wasn't to excited about since I was a few versions behind. All in all it was pretty straight forward and things just worked. I use the default xml provider ... [More]

There might be a time when you don't want Chrome's automatic border around active fields or you want to change its color or something. Its pretty easy to change using CSS if you need to.Demo To remove the border for all fields you can use the following: *:focus {outline: none;} To remove the borde... [More]

In my post last week I initially tried using the jQuery ThickBox plugin to popup a confirmation dialog from an ASP.NET ListView item. I had some trouble at the time getting it to work how I wanted so I moved on to using the SimpleModal plugin. This weekend I decided to go back and try the ThickBox p... [More]