Confessions of a Professional Developer

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This is an oldie but a goodie – I don’t know how many times in my career I’ve rewritten these few lines of code but I’ve preserved it here to save me writing it yet again! A simple method for outputting all the server variables, query string parameters and form variables in Classic ASP! response.Write("<hr/>SERVER VARIABLES COLLECTION<br/>") Dim variableName for...

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This is just a quick reminder post about how to do things and in what order to get Paging and Sorting working together on a GridView Control when you’re datasource is NOT a SqlDataSource or ObjectDataSource reference by DataSourceId in the ASPX file but rather a (collection of) POCO objects or other datasource!   .ASPX file     <asp:GridView CssClass="tableStyle1"...

Useful code for preventing SQL injections in .NET Querystrings, lifted from the following page:http://www.bloombit.com/Articles/2008/05/ASCII-Encoded-Binary-String-Automated-SQL-Injection.aspx/// /// global.asax/// public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication{...private static string[] SQLKeywords = new string[]{"EXEC", "SELECT", "INSERT", "UPDATE", "DELETE","CAST", "DECLARE",...

...so I've written a list of things I'd like!Stuff I’d Like for my Birthday:Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for re-useable .NET Libraries 2nd Edition, Book/DVD Packagehttp://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/browse.asp?ref=895703£22.34Hitman DVD – Unrated http://www.movietyme.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=39063&osCsid=dd991dc5d4a98e3f30952bf39550ad0c£15.99HMV...

Search Engine Optimization Toolkit : The Official Microsoft IIS Site: "The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots...

Download details: Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1: "Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 - ISO" free download from microsoft now available (Im very late in posting this but still......

July 2006 - Posts - Tony Rogerson's ramblings on SQL Server: "Collations in SQL Server, examples and restrictions" Very handy notes on solving Database Collation Problem...

Its ol news but only just came across it - wish Id have moved here sooner!Neighbours' shock as cows invade housing estate - Rugby Today - Back to Home Page: "Neighbours' shock as cows invade housing estat...

This is a brilliant little example script what absoluted HAVE TO use a cursor - my take generally on this is "If you have to use a cursor youre doing it wrong", however during some work for a client I needed to "duplicate" a hierarchy of items from different nested tables with foreign key references for a questionnaire something along the lines ofQuestionnaire table links to Questions...

Internet Explorer 8: Videos: "Internet Explorer 8: Videos" these, whilst very"microsoft", "vision of the future", "overly gloosy with an irritatingly up-beat narrator", if you know what I mean; much like the Windows Tour video (which i always make a bee line for when a new O/S is released), is actually very informative, concise and easy to understand. It shows key new features and...