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.
Thoughts on “Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?”
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…
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.
Recent Email Scam
It seems that the desperate scammers have been really working hard devising different schemes trying to steal people’s identities.
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.
Weird Master Page Problem
I recently ran into a very strange problem with ASP.Net 2.0. I have used master pages for a couple of years now, and this is the first time I encountered such an odd problem.
A Strange DVD RW Problem
My home workstation has a Plextor PX-708A DVD-RW drive, and it has been working perfectly until quite recently.
MATLAB 7 under WINE
When I tried WINE many years ago, there were not that many large applications that could actually run smoothly without some sort of hacks.