When using a GridView with a ButtonField for deleting records, setting a return confirm(‘Are you sure?’) on the onclick event doesn’t prevent the event from firing to the server.My first try was with this code: <asp:buttonfield ButtonType="Image" ImageUrl="/images/b_drop.png" CommandName="DeleteRow" />

There’s been a lot of buzz about tiddlywiki lately. Here’s a quote from the original tiddlywiki site: TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s [...]

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-user-interface-designs/

In a production environment we have a 64-bit SQL Server Std edition running on Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise. The box used to contain 16GB of RAM, but to improve performance we upgraded to 64GB. As suggested by Books Online, SQL Server needs permission to ‘lock pages in memory’ to take advantage of the available [...]

I recently got hold of a Uniden UBC785XLT radio scanner. This device has a RS-232 port by which it can be controlled and programmed. As a programmer, what could be more fun than trying to write a little app to do just that. So here’s UnidenCommander (UC). It’s a remote control application for Uniden Bearcat [...]

This is a tip I read here, I’m just repeating it here for my own reference. If you work with css floats much you’ll eventually come across this problem: 2 Floated elements inside a container. The container doesn’t expand to contain the floats. There are a lot of solutions to this, such as sticking in [...]

As of January 12, 2009 people from Western-Europe, Australia and Singapore who want to visit the United States of America need to apply for _travel authorization_, as part of a anti-terrorism program. Of course, this authorization can be applied for on-line at www.cbp.gov/esta. Unfortunately, the good people of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have [...]

One of my Microsoft heroes, Brain Beckman, has 2 great new videos up on channel9 It’s a two part video called The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad. View the videos after the click…||The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad – Part 1|| ||The Zen of Stateless State – The State [...]

I couldn’t have done it any better, so here’s the link to the original article:  10 tricks