see the live demo at portaltoolbox.net Me and my good friend Adnan Ahmad have created an open source project on codeplex called subforum.net.  Subforum.net is an ASP.NET MVC discussion forum.  We want it to be unique and different from other discussion forums but still maintain the ideals... [More]

UI design is truly an art and source code is poetry.  This quote comes from Emperor Chi-Long during the Qing Dynasty.  Because, as you know the Chinese invented computers over 400 years ago.  They always do everything first as you know.  In Chi-Long’s book “The Art of... [More]

Okay so the title makes no sense but that’s alright because I understand it and that’s all that matters.  haha Just kidding…  Take it easy… Let’s say you have a WPF application with a DataGrid on it.  You also have a strongly typed list of objects &nda... [More]

I am working on a WPF project at work and we purchased a couple components from a couple of different component vendors.  One of them is ComponentOne and we have used the C1DataGrid in several places.  Recently a bug was submitted that said they could not tab or shift tab through the grid ... [More]

I am so happy!!!  Finally, after a year of waiting, I finally received an invite to Google Voice.  I tried to get an invite when it was GrandCentral but when I finally got one they stopped taking on new accounts.  Just my luck…  But now I’m good! Google Voice Featu... [More]

This example demonstrates cursor-like actions without cursor overhead and performance related problems that show up when using them. The main reason a cursor is built is for looping through a result set one row at a time and performing an action based on the data in that row. Here is a short query ... [More]

Subversion is awesome I am a big fan of source control and subversion is my favorite.  I used it for several years before being forced into using TFS on my current project.  Subversion is great because it really doesn’t get in your way.  You hardly notice the code is under sour... [More]

Syed Ali discussed stored procedures and why use them.  I posted my comments there but thought it was worthy of an entry in the blog.  There are some things I hate about them as well but I feel they have some very distinct advantages too so they are a necessary evil.  I don't see how ... [More]

Over the years of software development, one thing that has eluded most developers is Data Access. Yes, I mean writing code that accesses a database from your application. It is an age old problem since the days when data storage and computing were invented. We would have thought that by now we woul... [More]

I read Paul Nielsen post on stored procedure. According to him stored procedures are good for the applications. He is not only talking about logical or business process stored procedure, but he also encouraged developer for CRUD stored procedures. I think, it is good idea. There is no harm to use th... [More]