Here's a common scenario for ASP.NET developers.  You have an ASP.NET server-side control and you want to use a jQuery selector to target it and make a client-side change to it. A very simple way to do this is to use the following notation: $('[id$=divId]').tooltip({ position: "center right" ... [More]

SubForum is an open source discussion forum using the ASP.NET MVC framework.  However, we are going to use the 960 Grid System to develop the interface.  The 960 Grid System is basically web design for 1024×768 display.  Word is 800×600 is dead and 960 pixels is the new go... [More]

I have not updated my code to the latest Castle Windsor.  I am still using the the previous version.  With it you can setup your .config files to be parsed automatically and stored for you.  All you have to do is setup an interface and initialize a class.  From that point on if y... [More]

A few months back I wrote a web service that generates lottery numbers for the Texas Lottery.  The concept is that the numbers are not truly random; otherwise, there would be a uniform spread for the numbers.  Also, some numbers are hot numbers and you are more likely to pick a winner usin... [More]

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]