Archive for the 'ASP:NET' Category
C# StringBuilder Class
Filed under: ASP:NET, C#, Programming | Tags: c sharp, C#, Programming, stringbuilder
Comments(0) Have you ever had an extremely long string you needed to use in an ASP.NET web page? Or after it is displayed, have you ever wanted to view the source of the page to see what the string is outputting? Well, if you want to do this with a standard string, then you either get one long line string or you have to add line breaks where you want them. Personally, I don’t like adding the line breaks, as it is one more place I can have something break. Thankfully Microsoft has addressed this with the StringBuilder class, which I graciously use every time I have long strings to deal with. Read more »
Branding SharePoint 2007 - Make it Personal
Filed under: ASP:NET, Internet, Windows | Tags: Branding, InfoPath, SharePoint, Wiki
Comments(0) Over the past 7 years, I have been building web based solutions for companies. Several years ago, the company I work for released a reporting producted that was sold as an out of the box solution. Which, in a sense it was, but all of the templates were branded with our company logo. To my knowledge, not a single one of this customers is still using the product. But then about 3 years ago, they started selling it along with professional services and we began building custom solutions for each customer. The first thing that draws attention, is that fact that now we brand it with THEIR logo. We try to do all color schemes based on their logos. This makes the solution theirs, not ours. You can not believe the impact branding internal solutions has with your target audience.
As often is the case, companies don’t spend much time on internal development. The biggest reason, there isn’t any profit in doing so. Often companies feel like it will just cut their profit margin even more considering that they have to either have the in-house talent or contract it out. And if you have the in-house talent, then you have to take them away from their normal duties to work on internal projects that are not considered profitable. Read more »
ASP:Listbox - How To Populate a Listbox from a C# Generic List
Filed under: ASP:NET, C#, Internet | Tags: ASP, c sharp, C#, listbox, vb, vb.net
Comments(1) The guys over at ASPAlliance did an excellent article on user the ASP:ListBox with VB.NET. The article can be viewed at ASPAlliance. Which is really great if you are using VB.NET. The article makes it very easy to modify for use with C#. Read more »
