http://www.codeproject.com Latest Articles for Steve Wellens from CodeProject en-us http://www.codeproject.com/App_Themes/Std/Img/logo100x30.gif http://www.codeproject.com 100 30 CodeProject Copyright CodeProject, 1999-2013 Webmaster@codeproject.com (Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:21:24 GMT 20 C# Hand-coded goodness Who remembers Object Databases? At one time they were going to dominate the programming world. But, as with a lot of over-hyped technology (Lisp, AI, ADA, Virtual Reality) they were destined to a small niche segment of the market. Relational Databases remain king. Why? Because Relational Databases http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34723/From-Table-to-TreeView-Displaying-Hierarchies Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET XML Windows .NET COM Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:16:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34723/From-Table-to-TreeView-Displaying-Hierarchies Article Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:34:00 GMT 31617 4.57 3.5 6 31 Years ago, when I created my first ASMX Web Service and called it from an application, it was easy and it was fun. I was able to call functions on a server, from a client, with little effort. What a great and powerful tool!Then WCF came out and was deemed the 'best practice' and the 'preferred' me http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540169/CallingplusWCFplusServicespluswithplusjQuery-e2-80 Steve Wellens C# .NET Architect Dev WCF jQuery Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:17:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540169/CallingplusWCFplusServicespluswithplusjQuery-e2-80 Technical Blog Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:17:00 GMT 3438 4 1 12 CSS3 box-shadow and Visual Studio features. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/529108/CSS3-box-shadow-and-Visual-Studio-features Steve Wellens CSS Visual-Studio Design Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:48:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/529108/CSS3-box-shadow-and-Visual-Studio-features Technical Blog Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:32:00 GMT 3648 4.67 2.39 3 2 At one of the local golf courses I frequent, there is an open grass field next to the course. It is about eight acres in size and mowed regularly. It is permissible to hit golf balls there—you bring and shag our own balls. My golf colleagues and I spend hours there practicing, chatting and in genera http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/506027/GoogleplusandplusBingplusMapplusAPIsplusCompared Steve Wellens Javascript HTML Architect Dev Ajax Beginner Intermediate Advanced jQuery Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:04:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/506027/GoogleplusandplusBingplusMapplusAPIsplusCompared Technical Blog Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:04:00 GMT 6174 4.57 3.8 7 13 Remember the SETI screen savers that used to be on everyone's computer? As far I as know, it was the first bona-fide use of "Cloud" computing…albeit an ad hoc cloud. I still think it was a brilliant leveraging of computing power.My interest in clouds was re-piqued when I went to a technical semina http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/476964/TheplusLowplusDownplusDirtyplusAzureplusBlues Steve Wellens ASP.NET Azure Cloud Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:40:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/476964/TheplusLowplusDownplusDirtyplusAzureplusBlues Technical Blog Fri, 02 Nov 2012 05:48:00 GMT 2469 3.5 .6 2 3 Some interesting things on jQuery. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/361803/Elegance-thy-Name-is-jQuery Steve Wellens All-Topics Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:03:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/361803/Elegance-thy-Name-is-jQuery Technical Blog Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:03:00 GMT 2138 5 1 3 CSS 4? Really? CSS 3 isn't fully released yet! What on earth is going on here?It all started when I was fooling around with GIMP, the extremely powerful free graphics editor. I took a public domain image, re-sized it, gave it a transparent background and then added a perspective shadow. It is be http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/336146/Cool-CSS-4-Feature-pointer-events Steve Wellens CSS HTML Design Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:23:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/336146/Cool-CSS-4-Feature-pointer-events Technical Blog Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:23:00 GMT 2743 5 1 1 A new appender for the log4net logging tool that sends server logging strings to a JavaScript console. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/318176/Log4net-Log-to-a-JavaScript-Console Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET Javascript .NET Dev Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:21:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/318176/Log4net-Log-to-a-JavaScript-Console Technical Blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:21:00 GMT 8636 4.67 2.15 3 9 jQuery Templates have been discontinued. The new pretender to the throne is JsRender. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292143/Goodby-jQuery-Templates-Hello-JsRender Steve Wellens Javascript Dev Intermediate jQuery Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:12:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292143/Goodby-jQuery-Templates-Hello-JsRender Technical Blog Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:12:00 GMT 8868 0 7 An introduction to HTML 5 Custom Data Attributes. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243186/HTML-5-and-jQuery-A-Match-Made-in-Heaven Steve Wellens ASP.NET MVC jQuery Web-Development Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243186/HTML-5-and-jQuery-A-Match-Made-in-Heaven Technical Blog Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:53:00 GMT 17097 4 1.2 2 13 Misuse of the C# var keyword. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/44123/Can-the-C-var-Keyword-be-Misused Steve Wellens C# Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:32:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/44123/Can-the-C-var-Keyword-be-Misused Tip/Trick Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:40:00 GMT 42678 4.82 6.84 26 5 I believe developers go through several learning phases on their way to becoming world class developers. Here are five of them. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/230557/Five-Phases-of-Developer-Maturity Steve Wellens All-Topics Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:29:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/230557/Five-Phases-of-Developer-Maturity Technical Blog Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:29:00 GMT 3806 5 1.51 2 6 More and more often I've been seeing C# code like this: var Data = GetData(); What on earth does GetData() return? This code is not as maintainable as it could be and is not as maintainable as it should be. Doesn't explicitly declaring the variable type make the code more readable, understandabl http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44076/Can-the-C-var-Keyword-be-Misused Steve Wellens All-Topics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44076/Can-the-C-var-Keyword-be-Misused Technical Blog Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:44:00 GMT 9279 5 3.01 4 1 You can use the LINQ library functions, which are extension methods, without having to delve into Reverse Polish SQL. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203624/Learning-to-Like-LINQ-or-Loving-the-LINQ-Loquaciou Steve Wellens C# .NET Dev LINQ Beginner Mon, 30 May 2011 13:05:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203624/Learning-to-Like-LINQ-or-Loving-the-LINQ-Loquaciou Technical Blog Mon, 30 May 2011 13:05:00 GMT 8139 3.17 1.53 3 4 I've always appreciated these tools: Expresso and XPath Builder. They make designing regular expressions and XPath selectors almost fun! Did I say fun? I meant less painful. Being able to paste/load text and then interactively play with the search criteria is infinitely better than the code/compile/ http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/157284/jQuery-Selector-Tester-and-Cheat-Sheet Steve Wellens Architect Dev Design jQuery Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:16:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/157284/jQuery-Selector-Tester-and-Cheat-Sheet Technical Blog Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:29:00 GMT 5623 0 12  XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.There is so much to learn in our technical world… and so little time….and for some of us, even fewer brain cells. Alas, such is the life of a nerd/dweeb/geek.The latest technology I spent brain cells on is XML Transforms. You've pr http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/41992/Debugging-XML-Transforms-XSLT-with-Visual-Studio Steve Wellens XML Windows .NET Visual-Studio XSLT Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:46:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/41992/Debugging-XML-Transforms-XSLT-with-Visual-Studio Technical Blog Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:49:00 GMT 29080 4.14 4.08 10 21 Having a clickable image in a web page is not a big deal. Having an image in a web page with clickable hotspots is a big deal. The powerful GIMP editor has a tool to make creating clickable hotspots much easier. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Its home page and download links are her http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/153937/Create-Image-Maps-with-GIMP Steve Wellens All-Topics Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:51:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/153937/Create-Image-Maps-with-GIMP Technical Blog Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:51:00 GMT 8260 4.5 1.35 2 2 On the Asp.Net forums where I am a moderator, a developer was having a problem hooking up click events to the rows of a dynamically created html table. He didn't want to embed the onclick handler in the table rows as each row was created so he tried using jQuery. The problem was he was trying to hoo http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/150163/The-jQuery-live-Function Steve Wellens ASP.NET jQuery Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/150163/The-jQuery-live-Function Technical Blog Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:08:00 GMT 7019 5 2.39 3 4 There was a question from a student over on the Asp.Net forums about improving site performance. The concern was that every time an app setting was read from the Web.Config file, the disk would be accessed. With many app settings and many users, it was believed performance would suffer. Their intent http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/147245/Web-Config-is-Cached Steve Wellens ASP.NET Windows Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/147245/Web-Config-is-Cached Technical Blog Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:00:00 GMT 12561 4.83 5.8 16 16 Humbled yet again…DOH! No matter how much experience you acquire, no matter how smart you may be, no matter how hard you study, it is impossible to keep fully up to date on all the nuances of the technology we are exposed to. There will always be gaps in our knowledge: Little 'dead zones' of uncerta http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/144771/Passing-Strings-by-Ref Steve Wellens All-Topics Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:35:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/144771/Passing-Strings-by-Ref Technical Blog Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:40:00 GMT 5352 4.6 3.22 5 6 Finding Controls in a Master Page with jQuery http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/131518/Finding-Controls-in-a-Master-Page-with-jQuery Steve Wellens ASP.NET jQuery Masterpage Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:52:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/131518/Finding-Controls-in-a-Master-Page-with-jQuery Technical Blog Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:52:00 GMT 13327 4.1 3.11 6 13 "The SQL command ran, there's no error message but nothing changed! What's going on? Do you think it's a virus? Maybe there's a bug in .NET!" http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43089/Why-SQL-Updates-Fail-Three-Reasons Steve Wellens SQL Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:25:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43089/Why-SQL-Updates-Fail-Three-Reasons Technical Blog Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:13:00 GMT 11025 4.38 3.4 6 9 Scott Gu in his latest post, announces a very serious security threat-vulnerability regarding ASP.Net sites. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/111002/IMPORTANT-ASP-Net-Security-Vulnerability-From-Scot Steve Wellens ASP.NET security Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:38:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/111002/IMPORTANT-ASP-Net-Security-Vulnerability-From-Scot Tip/Trick Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:38:00 GMT 3577 0 1 Like most developers, I love finding tools that do my work for me and make me look good. And, like most developers, I am extremely wary of adding too much outside crap to a project which can make maintaining it a nightmare. You may end up not only maintaining your own code but someone else's code, o http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/107327/Goodbye-Ajax-Toolkit-Hello-jQuery-UI Steve Wellens ASP.NET jQuery Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:28:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/107327/Goodbye-Ajax-Toolkit-Hello-jQuery-UI Technical Blog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:28:00 GMT 21473 4.67 2.15 3 20 One cause and solution for unwanted page breaks in the ReportViewer control http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/96291/Unwanted-Page-Breaks-in-ReportViewer Steve Wellens Reports Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:05:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/96291/Unwanted-Page-Breaks-in-ReportViewer Tip/Trick Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:00 GMT 4497 0 A small test program to illustrate how the ObservableCollection works, with special notes on using it in Asp.Net. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/84535/Observable-Collections Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET .NET Sat, 29 May 2010 16:21:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/84535/Observable-Collections Technical Blog Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:01:00 GMT 12894 0 14 Many beginners struggle with the concept of an Interface. Over on the ASP.NET forums, where I moderate, the question is asked a surprising number of times. I'm going to try to describe and explain the concept of an Interface…simply and concisely. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38244/What-s-the-Deal-with-Interfaces Steve Wellens C# .NET All-Topics Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:24:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38244/What-s-the-Deal-with-Interfaces Technical Blog Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:56:00 GMT 30244 4.48 5.98 21 59 A user had a problem calling a Web Service from a web page asynchronously. I tried his code on my machine and was able to reproduce the problem. I was able to solve his problem, but only after taking the long scenic route through some of the more perplexing nuances of Web Services and Proxies. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/70441/Calling-Web-Service-Functions-Asynchronously-from Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET Windows .NET Architect Dev Design Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:40:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/70441/Calling-Web-Service-Functions-Asynchronously-from Technical Blog Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:40:00 GMT 16040 5 2.39 3 20 Often, there are many ways to do the same thing in .NET. You can do things the hard way or the easy way. By hard, I mean you can type a lot of code by hand. By easy, I mean you can click and drag and drop. Guess which method I am going to demonstrate…go on guess…it's OK, I'm grading on a curve… Befo http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/62560/Visual-Data-Binding-Hot-Dang Steve Wellens ASP.NET .NET All-Topics Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:53:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/62560/Visual-Data-Binding-Hot-Dang Technical Blog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:53:00 GMT 15007 5 4.52 8 30 Most of the jQuery code I've seen uses anonymous functions even when they aren't needed which makes the code harder to read, buggier and less maintainable. What a nightmare. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/54464/jQuery-Code-does-not-have-to-be-Ugly Steve Wellens Javascript jQuery Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/54464/jQuery-Code-does-not-have-to-be-Ugly Technical Blog Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:49:00 GMT 13061 4.77 5.96 18 20 In an earlier post here, I wrote two functions to Serialize and Deserialize objects to XML strings. Since then, while reading a book about XML, I learned of even more power in the .NET XML Serialization libraries*... http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/50772/Serializing-ArrayLists-of-Disparate-Objects-to-XML Steve Wellens C# XML SQL Windows Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:53:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/50772/Serializing-ArrayLists-of-Disparate-Objects-to-XML Technical Blog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:53:00 GMT 6014 5 1 2 This is one of those tucked-away features in Visual Studio that, once you find it, can make you slap your forehead so hard that it hurts. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/47496/Automatically-Generate-Stored-Procedures-with-Visu Steve Wellens SQL .NET Visual-Studio Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:06:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/47496/Automatically-Generate-Stored-Procedures-with-Visu Technical Blog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:54:00 GMT 9306 4.29 2.07 3 12 An ASP.NET server control that displays a list of files from a directory as hyperlinks. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/46264/A-Simple-ASP-NET-Custom-Server-Control Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET .NET Dev Intermediate Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:06:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/46264/A-Simple-ASP-NET-Custom-Server-Control Technical Blog Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:14:00 GMT 14667 4.43 2.11 3 19 Over on the ASP.NET forums I recently had the opportunity* to help a few lost souls by showing them how to serialize objects to XML and deserialize the XML back into objects. Since the question has come up more than once, I decided to BLOG it so I could refer similar questions in the future to this  http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37824/Serializing-and-Deserializing-Objects-to-and-from Steve Wellens C# XML Windows .NET DBA Dev Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37824/Serializing-and-Deserializing-Objects-to-and-from Technical Blog Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:23:00 GMT 14759 3.67 1.75 3 16 Installing XP SP3 "Access Denied" http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34726/Installing-XP-SP3-Access-Denied Steve Wellens Windows Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:24:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34726/Installing-XP-SP3-Access-Denied Technical Blog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:08:00 GMT 15391 0 9 After years of working in the .NET environment, you can still find new and amazing features. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42694/CompareValidator-s-hidden-gem-It-does-data-type-va Steve Wellens ASP.NET Windows .NET Dev Intermediate Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:42:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42694/CompareValidator-s-hidden-gem-It-does-data-type-va Technical Blog Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:53:00 GMT 8511 3.8 2.66 5 6 There was a question about this on the ASP.NET forums and after a quick search I didn't find a good generic function so I thought I'd supply one. Note: I wanted this to be as broad and useful as possible, so the second parameter is a ListControl which both the ListBox and DropDownList inherit from. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/39133/How-to-Fill-a-ListBox-DropDownList-from-an-Enum Steve Wellens C#1.0 C#2.0 C#3.0 C# ASP.NET .NET Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/39133/How-to-Fill-a-ListBox-DropDownList-from-an-Enum Technical Blog Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:30:00 GMT 22236 3.7 2.59 5 17 There are plenty of tips out on the web that I see no need to repeat here. But this one made such a remarkable difference on my box that I had to post it… http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38405/Speed-Up-the-Visual-Studio-Toolbox Steve Wellens .NET Visual-Studio Dev Beginner Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38405/Speed-Up-the-Visual-Studio-Toolbox Technical Blog Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:55:00 GMT 15603 4.83 4.61 9 16 Sometimes you want your web page to 'stay alive'. That is, if a user is filling out a complicated form, you do not want the session to time out before they are finished. The user could get very angry and rightfully so: You might even get yelled at! http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37136/AH-Ah-ah-ah-Staying-Alive-Staying-Alive Steve Wellens C# Javascript Windows .NET All-Topics Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:27:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37136/AH-Ah-ah-ah-Staying-Alive-Staying-Alive Technical Blog Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:46:00 GMT 71340 4.9 7.75 38 93 Over on the Asp.Net forums, a user asked how to store an ordered list of pages in an Xml file so he could use it to control the navigation of a group of pages on his web site. It was for a 'Wizard' where the user needed to go through the pages in sequence…no jumping directly to a page. He wanted it http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36454/Quick-and-Dirty-Automatic-Page-Navigator Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET .NET Fri, 15 May 2009 02:11:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36454/Quick-and-Dirty-Automatic-Page-Navigator Technical Blog Fri, 15 May 2009 02:11:00 GMT 8336 0 11 Usually, when you think of a Web Service, you think …make the call, get the response, and get on with the task at hand. These "one shot" calls are the norm in Web Services but there may be times when you need a little more. You may need the Web Service to remember states between calls. As an exampl http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35119/Using-Session-State-in-a-Web-Service Steve Wellens C++ Windows Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:39:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35119/Using-Session-State-in-a-Web-Service Technical Blog Mon, 11 May 2009 20:56:00 GMT 92456 4.87 7.25 31 74 How to have "static" buttons on a Master Page call functions in child pages when clicked. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34716/Master-Page-Child-Pages-Dynamic-Communication-Flex Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET Windows .NET Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:47:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34716/Master-Page-Child-Pages-Dynamic-Communication-Flex Technical Blog Mon, 04 May 2009 22:37:00 GMT 24055 4.73 4.52 9 54 Back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, developers wanting to exchange data between applications used binary formatted data, hardcoded text field lengths, or delimited text files. Much parsing and error checking was involved. It was tedious. With XML files a lot of that work can be d http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35186/Create-an-XSD-Schema-without-knowing-a-darn-thing Steve Wellens C# XML .NET Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:57:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35186/Create-an-XSD-Schema-without-knowing-a-darn-thing Technical Blog Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:11:00 GMT 8162 4 1 11 Level: Beginner. After getting information from a database, you may also want summary information about the data (totals, averages, counts, etc.). This can be done using SQL group by clauses or, it can be done while binding to a GridView. I've seen other examples of this but they seem more complica http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35187/Summing-Columns-in-a-GridView Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET Windows .NET Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:01:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35187/Summing-Columns-in-a-GridView Technical Blog Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:06:00 GMT 12780 3 .9 2 8 Being on the software "bleeding edge" is similar to being the "point man" in combat. I generally avoid being the first to adopt new technology until some other poor bastard has led the way…and occasionally paid a price: The price being missed deadlines, ulcers and ruined reputations. No thanks. How http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34717/IE-8-Can-Profile-JavaScript Steve Wellens C++ Windows MFC Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:03:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34717/IE-8-Can-Profile-JavaScript Technical Blog Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:56:00 GMT 17586 3 1 3 "It works on my machine." How many times have we heard that?  Getting something to work on other machines, after deployment, can be the final challenge in a successful project.  The worst case scenario is having to go to the problem machine (hopefully it isn't in the remote reaches of Siberia) inst http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35120/Debugging-a-Deployed-Site Steve Wellens C++ Windows Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:43:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35120/Debugging-a-Deployed-Site Technical Blog Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:43:00 GMT 10394 0 12 I wanted a cheap, simple visual indicator similar to a progress bar. Note, not the kind of dynamic progress bar used when updating AJAX pages, more of a single-bar graph. It should have been simple task. My plan was to use a Div as a container, implemented through a panel because they are more conv http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34722/Internet-Explorer-7-and-CSS-DOH Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET CSS Windows HTML Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:45:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34722/Internet-Explorer-7-and-CSS-DOH Technical Blog Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:06:00 GMT 13064 5 1.51 2 9 Often, it's the little things that matter. In any application, small changes to the user interface can have a major impact on the readability and usability of a form. Fonts, element spacing, order of elements, colors, etc., all come into play. A skillful designer can make a few tweaks to a crappy in http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34724/GUI-101-Group-Boxes Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET CSS .NET HTML Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34724/GUI-101-Group-Boxes Technical Blog Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:15:00 GMT 14831 3 1 10 The new free Chart Control from Microsoft is awesome (for download details see my original post here).  But if you can avoid being dazzled by the plethora of charting features, you may realize it can be used for other tasks. You can use the Chart Control to display simple text dynamically in a bitm http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34725/Stupid-Chart-Tricks Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET .NET Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:23:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34725/Stupid-Chart-Tricks Technical Blog Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:09:00 GMT 18195 3.67 1.1 2 14 It's possible you may develop dozens of web sites without ever doing any data caching. However, if you are trying to increase performance, data caching can be a key tool. The Asp.Net Cache object is remarkably easy to use, but it has many settings which makes it extremely powerful. The only way to http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34718/Rock-the-Cache-Bar-Rock-the-Cache-Bar Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET Windows .NET MFC Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:17:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34718/Rock-the-Cache-Bar-Rock-the-Cache-Bar Technical Blog Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:05:00 GMT 10405 3.75 1.79 3 9 A few posts back, I described the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework: Chart Demo.   While playing with the controls a bit over the holidays, I was pleasantly surprised to find you can hook into the paint events while the chart is being rendered. In the code below, I've hooked into http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34727/Custom-Annotate-Your-Charts Steve Wellens C# ASP.NET .NET Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:28:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34727/Custom-Annotate-Your-Charts Technical Blog Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:46:00 GMT 17389 4 1 14 I haven't been impressed by any new technology in a long time…until I downloaded and tried out the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework. It contains charts for both Forms and Asp.Net applications. It was easy to put this chart in an Asp.Net page:      The Charts home page is here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34729/Microsoft-Chart-Controls-for-the-Net-Framework Steve Wellens ASP.NET SQL .NET Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:40:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34729/Microsoft-Chart-Controls-for-the-Net-Framework Technical Blog Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:42:00 GMT 39468 4.25 2.07 3 55 On the ASP.NET forums where I moderate, the poster's IP address is displayed at the bottom of the post. Often I am curious and paste the poster's IP address into an IP locator web page to find out where they are posting from. This was tedious. Once I installed Internet Explorer 8 and saw what accel http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34715/IE-8-IP-Address-Mapping-Accelerator Steve Wellens C++ Windows MFC Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:01:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34715/IE-8-IP-Address-Mapping-Accelerator Technical Blog Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:26:00 GMT 9607 4 1 6 While moderating posts over on the Asp.Net forums, I ran into a thread containing questions about using Nullable types. Nullable types are a simple concept: Allow value types to have the value of null. Typically, an integer or float cannot be null: When in scope, they always exist and therefore mus http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34720/C-Nullable-Types-Subtlety Steve Wellens C# Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:36:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34720/C-Nullable-Types-Subtlety Technical Blog Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:36:00 GMT 11081 4 1.2 2 4