I recently had a requirement to allow users to select a group of files and then dynamically create a zip file on the server of the selected files that they could then download. After some searching I came across two solutions to dynamically create zip files: SharpZipLib DotNetZip ... [More]

I have needed to figure out how to do this for a while to avoid having to create multiple pages with nearly the same code when I want send a report for printing or conversion to PDF. Turns out this is really simple. The easiest way I found was not to remove the master page, but to replace it with a ... [More]

I have had an issue with one of my projects for some time that really confuses users especially on shared computers. What generally happens is a user with proper credentials logs out but leaves the browser open so when the next user enters their credentials the site tries to send them to the page th... [More]

I attended my first Utah .Net Users Group meeting last night in South Jordan. "The UtahDNUG is dedicated to to providing a strong and vibrant community for software developers interested in Microsoft .NET technologies. Everyone is invited to participate." The meeting had about 40 att... [More]

For a project I have been working on I needed a time picker control. Since such a control isn't part of the standard controls or part of the AjaxControlToolkit, I went to Google to search one out. The best free control I came across was from Excentrics World. I have found it to be highly customizabl... [More]

I like to put a border around my gridviews. However, when they are empty, the border doesn't look good. It took some searching to find a good way to not show the border. Its been a while, so I am not sure which forum I found the answer in. I improved upon the answer though by adding the code to a cl... [More]