Extending the GridView — Part IV
In the previous three posts(I, II, III), I showed you how to inherit from GridView control to create an extended control that can bind to a generic list of objects. In this final post of the series, I will show…
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Extending the GridView — Part III
In Part II, I showed you how to extend the GridView control so that we can bind a generic list to it. Because GridViewEx inherits from GridView, it has all the functionalities GridView has (i.e. paging). Sometimes, it is desirable…
Extending the GridView — Part II
In Part I, I talked about why we needed to extend the GridView and some of the benefit in doing that. In this post, I will discuss how to extend the standard GridView control to take advantage of binding to…
On Windows Vista UAC
It seems that a lot of people do not like Windows Vista UAC’s. While UAC looks and feels a lot like sudo in Debian Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), it behaves quite differently than sudo.
Extending the GridView — Part I
Most business applications require presenting result sets to the end users in the form of some kind of grid views.
Malware that Disguises as Antivirus Software
The techniques malware writers use nowadays are becoming more and more sophisticated. The last time I spotted a malware was almost two years ago. At that time, a page that I was visiting contained a JPEG image that was exploit…
Uptime
The severe thunderstorm last night knocked out power, and the UPS did not hold long enough before the power was restored. So early this morning, when the power did come back I had to power on my web server.
More WGA Woes
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program has been around since Windows XP, and I am sure that even if you have not personally experienced the pain caused by WGA you must have heard some of the horror stories.
Code::Blocks Settings for Qt Development
Qt is a cross-platform object oriented C++ framework for application development.
Q9450 – The LINPACK Test
Earlier today, I decided to see how fast my quad-core PC really is in terms of the raw floating point performance measured by GFLOPS.
Thoughts on Flash Device Reliability
The other day, my 512MB SD card died all of a sudden. A minute before it seized functioning, I was transferring a few files onto it.
A Simple TBB Program: TBB Prime
I have been playing around with Intel’s Threading Building Block for a while and have started to really appreciate its simplicity and elegance: Instead of thinking in threads and thread synchronizations, one can just simply concentrate on the problem on…
Linux Only, Two Months Later
Since I built my new PC roughly two months ago, I have been running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit) as my primary operating system, and I have not looked back.
A Line of Code Could Bring Visual Studio .Net Down to Its Knees
It seems at least to me that as more bells and whistles were added to each new release of Microsoft’s products, the qualities of which have been deteriorating.
Develop TBB Using KDevelop and Code::Blocks
I have been playing around with Intel’s open source TBB (Threading Building Block) recently.