As I referenced last night, I've been advocating "custom controls everywhere" for a long, long time.  I don't approve of using the <asp:Textbox> control or <asp:DataGrid> control, or pretty much any others.  Instead, these controls should be inherited, and the derived controls should be used. There are many reasons for... [Read More]

Ever since I started working with ASP.NET, back in v1.0 Beta 1, I've been creating self-validating form controls.  I've gone through a few iterations with them, but overall, the concept has stayed the same. Here's a fun link to an archive of the old Cincinnati .NET user group.  It shows... [Read More]

Today, I am embarking upon my global search and replace to change 13,000 lines of code.  But I have had a problem with VS 2003 on my Vista machine -- it likes to hang when I use Find in Files or Replace in Files. Google to the rescue.  I very... [Read More]

Just in case you want to do this, here's a step by step guide. Start VS 2008 (no need to open a project or file) Click on Tool->Attach to Process... Select wininit.exe and click Attach Wait for the debugger to initialize Click the Stop Debugging button When you attempt to... [Read More]

I just tackled a problem using SQL's ROW_NUMBER() function, and I'm happy with how it turned out.  It would have been pretty tricky in SQL 2000. The problem at hand was merging 2 sets of data, copying data from one account into another account, where the records don't already exist. ... [Read More]