A Strange Databinding Issue

March 8th, 2008 by kwong

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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XP Install Overwrites NTLDR

March 1st, 2008 by kwong

I thought it was going to be a non-eventful evening when I decided to install Windows XP on a second hard drive on one of my servers running Windows Server 2003 (well, I had some issues with the wireless card driver on Windows Server 2003 and wanted to see if the OS was the cause).
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Router Configuration on Port 80? It’s Never a Good Idea

February 27th, 2008 by kwong

A few weeks ago, one of my co-worker showed me how he monitors his home internet connection remotely using DynDNS.
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A Stange Issue With Global.asax

February 18th, 2008 by kwong

I always use Global.asax for centralized error handling in my ASP.Net applications and typically it works great.
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Multiple Row Selection With GridView

February 10th, 2008 by kwong

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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Thoughts on “Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?”

February 9th, 2008 by kwong

I recently ran across two very interesting articles (Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?, Who Killed the Software Engineer? (Hint: It Happened in College)) discussing how the current university education has become inadequate in terms of producing highly qualified software engineers and developers.
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Reflection and Case Sensitivity

February 3rd, 2008 by kwong

Reflection is case sensitive by default, which comes at no surprise to most C# developers.
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Enable/Disable Controls using ControlCollection

January 25th, 2008 by kwong

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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JScript Exception in AJAX Control Toolkit

January 21st, 2008 by kwong

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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Recent Email Scam

January 19th, 2008 by kwong

It seems that the desperate scammers have been really working hard devising different schemes trying to steal people’s identities.
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