Really nice cross-browser method of doing the 'DefaultButtons' thing - so that when you hit enter, the correct button 'clicks'

This is one of the major UI problems which is essentially caused by ASP.NET's 'one form' rule, as Darrell points out there's a number of solutions out there but none of them really solve the whole problem (i.e., for all browsers), well now there's a great…

Nested repeaters - new article on Codeproject and why you shouldn't do it that way!

Just been reading this article on Codeproject.com...hmm...I have a few issues with how he does things: DataBinder.Eval - I have what is becoming an obsession about this now - there's just NO NEED for this in most cases, it sucks in terms of performance (you…

Brain Shutdown...oh and some semi-useful links...

Well, it's 1am, I have at least 8 hours work ahead of me but my Cerebral Cortex has unfortunately decided to cease functioning. I'm also listening to the .NET Rocks showwhere Chris Sells and Rory Blythinterview Carl Franklin...hmm...Carl si currently going on…

Very nice free bits and pieces from Lumisoft

I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…

ASP.NET Resource Kit

Kent Sharkey writes that this is currently down again - seems that some people were a bit quick off the mark in posting the download...anyway, keep checking, apparently there's going to be a couple of pages with some more info about it there as well Found out…

Couple of nice articles...

Got these from ASP.NET - yes, I am well aware that everyone who reads this will have seen these there...it's really just to remind me! Anyway, great article on DotnetJunkies about Base Pages - these are just incredibly useful when trying to build a web site…

Very small tip...ViewState enabled properties

This really is a very quick tip...I think I got it from Fritz Onion'sexcellent Essential ASP.NET with Examples is C# (which I really recommend incidentally!). If you want to store a property which should persist using ViewState, you can save yourself a lot of…

Interesting little thing about AWStats from Brian Desmond

I currently use a batch job with analog for the stats for this site, but it isn't perfect (I like to see a list of visitors in chronological order for instance, which analog doesn't provide...). Brian Desmond has published a handy little article on the set up…

New personal crusade...

Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the mentioned methods...). I'd have thought that Web…

Grouping validators in ASP.NET

AspToday has a really good article on grouping validators in ASP.NET - client as well as server side (which I hadn't seen in a code sample before). Anyway, you need a subscription to view it (sorry, but it is worth it!) here's the article.