Continuing on my Gridview series, the next project which had me reaching for Google was a requirement to highlight the returned search results in a Gridview. Digging around, I found an article on 4guysfromRolla titled Highlighting Search Keywords in a DataGrid Web Control which formed the basis of my work. I ended up updating, simplying and modifing [...]
If you have a Gridview that exports rows to Excel (see my article Gridview that exports selected rows to Excel for an example) and you are using Master Pages, you are likely to run into the following error: “Control ‘ctl00_MainContent_Gridview1′ of type ‘GridView’ must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server”, even though you have the supposedly [...]
I recently had a project where I needed to provide a Gridview of items that the customer could individually select and export to Excel. The solution worked really well, so here it is for all to enjoy… This seems like a messy workaround, but I ended up using two Gridviews – one to display my [...]
This simple tutorial shows you how to create a great looking Gridview that allows users to filter content. This design uses individual drop down boxes and data sources for each column that you want to allow your users to filter data on, and presents them in a stylish, professional looking table.
The recently released Amazon Kindle Fire is a great 7-inch tablet that admirably serves as a low cost consumption device for Amazon content. Invariably however, reviewers are making the comparison between the Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad, despite the two devices targeting different market segments and uses.
This post is the first part in a series on Microsoft WebMatrix which will show you how to create a simple blog site. The tutorial is broken into multiple parts which demonstrate some of the new functionality that Microsoft introduced with WebMatrix, and how it relates to traditional ASP.NET Webforms or MVC programming.
SQL Server 2008 Express edition with Tools has finally been released (It was launched on August 11th, but only today are the management tools available). As I’ve been building web servers today, I’ve put together this comprehensive guide to setting up your website to work with SQL Server 2008.
This simple tutorial shows you how to create a great looking Gridview that allows users to filter content. This design uses individual drop down boxes and data sources for each column that you want to allow your users to filter data on, and presents them in a stylish, professional looking table.
