Event Logging Using Reflection
When exceptions occur during the execution of an application, the stack trace contains the detailed location of where the exception is originated.
Category: Coding
Software Development, Programming
Could not Find File ‘Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime’ Error
I ran into this weird compile time error the other day, and as it turned out, this is due to the limitation of Visual Studio 2005 deployment capabilities.
Unexpected Event Behavior
Typically, there is rarely a need to change a control’s ID. However, this practice is sometimes useful when debugging a custom control, partiularly one that contains dynamically generated controls.
Certain IIS Settings Cause Websetup Failure
I ran into an interesting problem with the Web Setup project in ASP.Net 2.0 last Friday.
A Strange Databinding Issue
It seems that the DropDownList control in ASP.Net 2.0 really has some issues. Besides the one I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently ran into another annoying problem.
A Stange Issue With Global.asax
I always use Global.asax for centralized error handling in my ASP.Net applications and typically it works great.
Multiple Row Selection With GridView
We often need the capability of selecting multiple rows from a grid, unfortunately the GridView component in ASP.Net 2.0 does not offer an out-of-box support for such functionality.
Reflection and Case Sensitivity
Reflection is case sensitive by default, which comes at no surprise to most C# developers.
Enable/Disable Controls using ControlCollection
In a role based application, it is often required that certain controls on the UI form be enabled and disabled based on user’s security credentials.
JScript Exception in AJAX Control Toolkit
I ran across an exception "Microsoft JScript runtime error: ‘this._postBackSettings.async’ is null or not an object" the other day while writing some AJAX code with .Net AJAX Extensions for .Net framework 2.0.
The Elusive File.Copy
A while ago, I discussed some interesting behavior of File.Exist function in .Net. Recently I found out that File.Copy is just as elusive when UNC is involved.
Same Method, Different Speed
I came across something rather interesting the other day when trying to determine what sorting algorithms .Net Framework uses in its list class: The built-in sorting method runs much faster than the reverse-engineered and then compiled code, even though in…
Interesting Databinding Behavior
Earlier today, while I was trying to bind a collection to a drop down list, I got the following exception:
My Favorite Program of All Time
I remember that in one of my graduate school classes at University of Wisconsin – Madison, professor Rastislav Bodik (he had left UW Madison and gone to UC Berkeley since) showed us this article Reverse Engineering the Twelve Days of…
GRUB Error 17, LILO Rules
Ubuntu and OpenSUSE have been my top choices of Linux distros over the years.