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August 12, 2011

C# ListBox Management Adding Removing Updating Databound Items ASP .Net

The lambda one-liner indicated in the snippet below essentially nests at least two “for/foreach” loops. See my related article for full source. This code snippet is used to populate a drop down list of all factories containing unregistered robots where… Continue reading

August 9, 2011

C# Event Handlers and Delegates in ASP .Net with Web User Controls

This article should help as a general how to on event handlers and delegates in C# as well as propose a different way to handle cross page methods in your ASP .Net website from a web user control or other… Continue reading

July 15, 2011

Non-static method requires a target

In my specific situation where I received this error, I was able to resolve it by simply changing “null” to the object containing the method which needed to be call. This error indicates a use of reflections that can easily… Continue reading

July 15, 2011

call parent page from user control to invoke page methods

To illustrate how we will accomplish this using Reflections, we will be using repeater in a user control within a page. Your repeater loads data easily within the user control code behind, but you want to utilize the “ItemCommand” event… Continue reading

June 21, 2011

C# .Net Clone and Copy Objects using Extension Methods

One of my earliest blog articles – Clone Objects in .Net Using Reflections – briefly discusses shallow and deep object copying and cloning. For more info. on the semantics and what these terms really mean, see referenced wikipedia article. You… Continue reading

June 20, 2011

C# Create a Windows Installer Class Custom Action bootstrap DLL in .Net

The standard windows installer project included with Visual Studio right out of the box is great in many deployment scenarios. For more advanced needs, organizations and developers usually defer to 3rd party solutions, such as InstallShield, Wise, wix or NSIS… Continue reading

June 20, 2011

Call Cancel from Custom Action in .Net Windows Installer Project

As an alternative to using the “Rollback” or “InstallException” approach, simply use pinvoke/interop to call the cancel button on the base installer form directly. (see my related post for more detail and full code) References https://ronniediaz.com/2011/06/20/the-savedstate-dictionary-does-not-contain-the-expected-values-and-might-have-been-corrupted/ Continue reading

June 16, 2011

C# Nested Repeaters ASP .Net

Nested repeaters are a very common topic in ASP .Net so I thought it would be a good subject to write on, especially considering the number of solutions that exist when you Google “nested repeaters” that offer plug-and-play answers, but… Continue reading

June 13, 2011

View PDF in Objective-C Cocoa on Mac OS X using PDFKit

The code below has been tested and works clean on the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Since it applies to native Mac OS X, and not iOS, porting this to work on iPhone/iPad is a bit different,… Continue reading

June 3, 2011

C++ concatenate strings with stream or sprint

There are many different ways to achieve this, but in my opinion the best method for something this commonly used is a solution that does not require additional external dependencies.. However, see reference at the bottom of this post for… Continue reading