LINKBLOG For November 30, 2006

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Is there a good reason to mark a class public? - Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

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ADO.NET Best practices - The Code Project - ASP.NET

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Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog - Handling 3rd Party Dependencies (Including your own)

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Levels of JavaScript Knowledge - Dean Edwards

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Software Development Top 30 Mistakes - Software Development in the Real World

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What's The Toughest Phase In Software Development For A Developer?

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The Value of Stupid Ideas... better to utter ten stupid idea and come up with something great then none at all - Digital Digressions

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Programming Tip: Comment First - Tales of the Rampant Coyote: - Rampant Games

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Binaries Belong in the Database Too - SitePoint

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Splash Screens in Windows Forms - sometimes the simplest things are the most beatiful - James Avery

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Top 30 Software Engineering Practices - Bashmohandes

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Active Metrics or Slapping the Sloppy Developers - Ayende @ Blog

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From the 'you call this agile?' department - ... every decision has pros and cons

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Check If Url Is Available (C#) - CodeKeep Snippet

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3 Secrets of Successful Management - Digital Digressions

ASP.NET 2.0 Tip: 'Theme' is not a member of 'ASP.default_aspx'

Ever had an error like 'Theme' is not a member of 'ASP.default_aspx' on ASP.NET 2.0, like I had just now? The point was that there was no problem at all with the Theme, it always worked as it should. What indeed was the point was a long time ago I changed the default.aspx page name into something more useful. But.. the Page directive keeps saying

    1 <%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="_Default" %>

for reasons still unbeknown to me it turned out quickly this was fine on my (WinXP/IIS5) local machine, but not on the test server (Win2003/IIS6) on which I published the project. It came up with the above error.

Hope this helps you out someday.

ASP.NET 2.0 Tip: How To Get The RowIndex When You Press An ASP:Button in a GridView

Finding out the above took me quite some time. It's not standard behavior to have a gridview with multiple row, with all rows having a configurable number of Textboxes on which data entry can be done, and that stores the data back to the underlying datasource with a 20+ parameter stored procedure, containing all fixed entries from the specific row.
Are you still with me? Well, put a bit simpler, I needed the rowindex of the specific row that was pressed. At first I thought well, that must be Gridview1.Rowindex, wouldn't it? but this turned out to be not the case. That is, the rowindex was not known inside the RowCommand event. After *a lot* of Googling it turned out I needed to add a CommandArgument to the Button, like so:

   46 <asp:Button ID="updateDB" runat="server" CausesValidation="false" CommandName="updateDB"

   47 CommandArgument="<%# CType(Container, GridViewRow).RowIndex %>" Text="updateDB" />

Simple enough if you've seen it before, but not so obvious to me...

Thanks to an asp.net forum thread and Mr DataAccess in ASP.NET himself Scott Mitchell (at the bottom)

LINKBLOG for November 2, 2006

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What I've learned from failure (Raganwald)

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The Build Server: Your Project's Heart Monitor (Coding Horror)

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IE7: Were they ready? Nice Comparison between IE6 and IE7 of Big Company's Homepages

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CSS-modificatie - Peter-Paul Koch (Naar Voren) Dutch!

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Fine Tuning your Database Design in SQL 2005 Simple-Talk

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WiX - ClickThrough improve Windows Installer support for web distributed applications

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Windows: Preparing for Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007

One of those things that have more impact than you'd realise at first sight

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What To Fix - Signs You Have Too Much Process

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Floating annotation for web-based applications. Post-It's for you ASP.NET application Code Project

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.NET Framework, Source Code and Debugging Mike Taulty's Blog. Mike misses not having .NET Framework source code avaliable when debugging

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Matching design sketches to the desired level of design feedback (don't polish initial designs too much) flow|state