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.
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I ran into an interesting problem with the Web Setup project in ASP.Net 2.0 last Friday.
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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.
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I always use Global.asax for centralized error handling in my ASP.Net applications and typically it works great.
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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.
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Reflection is case sensitive by default, which comes at no surprise to most C# developers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 theory the code being executed is identical.
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