Orcas Beta 2 Features - Split View

Posted on 30/07/2007.

In Beta 2, MS have given ASP.NET web forms and controls the Cider treatment. That is - you are shown the design and markup views side by side just as in the visual designer for WPF. This is called “Split View”, and can be extremely useful - unless your page uses controls that don’t behave [...]

How would I spend my $100?

Posted on 30/11/2006.

Joe Duffy is busy at work writing a book about concurrency in .NET. He asks how we would spend our $100, given a choice from a set of topics available. Well, I’d have to spend mine like this:

$5 - (0) Parallel algorithms (Comp Sci., technology agnostic)$5 - (1) Architecting large scale concurrent programs$5 - (2) [...]

Formatting in Data Bound Controls

Posted on 6/09/2006.

I recently ran across a problem with data bound controls in ASP.NET, where I set the string formatting specification (by the book) and nothing happened. If you come across this problem you are probably missing the HtmlEncode attribute on your column specification. Without this the braces are probably encoded and thus the formatting string is [...]