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How Do I Display a List With Control IDs in a Control's Property?

Published 21 years ago

When you're building your own Server Controls you may have the need to hook up one control to another. This is a common practice with the ASP.NET Validator controls, for example. As soon as you drop a validator control on your page, the ControlToValidate drop-down displays a list with controls that can be validated. Adding this behavior to your own server controls is not as difficult as you might think.

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SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Published 21 years ago

I have been playing around with Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and I must say I am pretty impressed.

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What's New Lately?

Published 21 years ago

Lately I haven't made much changes to the site; most features are ready and work as expected. I fixed a few bugs in the Voting Controls (and added enhanced design time support for them; a topic I might write an article about some day) but that's about it.

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How Do I Bind a Database to a WebFX Combo Box Control?

Published 21 years ago

An often requested feature in Web applications is a drop-down that behaves like a Combo Box in Windows applications. If you start typing in a drop-down in a Windows application, it will preselect an item that starts with all the letters you type in. The drop-down in a Web browser preselects the item that starts with the last letter you typed in. Not very convenient. Fortunately, there are many replacements for the default drop-down available. One of them is the WebFX Combobox. In this snippet, I will demonstrate you how to fill this control with information from a database. I won't be discussing how the control works, and I also won't explain how you can use the advanced features of the control that allows you to add new data. This snippet will simply demonstrate how to generate the client-side code for the drop-down with information from a database.

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What do I need Protected WithEvents for?

Published 21 years ago

I've noticed "Protected WithEvents" in the declarations for my controls on an ASPX web form. What's this all about? What does it mean?

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Change the CSS Class of an Object in Your Page

Published 21 years ago

It's easy to change style information of any object in your HTML page. With a bit of JavaScript you can change, for example, the border, or background-color of a paragraph.

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Retrieve the Current Run-Time Directory of the .NET Framework

Published 21 years ago

This snippet shows you how to retrieve the directory of the "current" .NET Framework. The path returned is the location of the version of the .NET Framework that your application is using.

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Regular Expression for a Strong Password

Published 21 years ago

This snippet shows a Regular Expression for a strong password.

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Change the Printer in Visual Basic 6

Published 21 years ago

The following snippet shows you how to change the current printer with Visual Basic 6 code.

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Preselecting an Item in a Drop-Down List

Published 21 years ago

The following JavaScript code can be used to preselect an item in a drop-down list.

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