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XML Document to XSD To Strong Typed Class

rojay12 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:06:35 GMT

Convert XML to XSD to Class From a command prompt run the following statements to convert first to an XSD then to a CS file. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>xsd c:\myXML.xml /out:c:\ C:\Program Files\Microsoft...(read more)

Great Article On Cascading DropDown List and jQuery

rojay12 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:53:04 GMT

Not to poach a blog post/article you need to go to www.mikesdotnetting.com and read his great article on Cascading DropDownLists with jQuery and ASP.NET. http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/97/Cascading-DropDownLists-with-jQuery-and-ASP.NET After I...(read more)

Make IE scale images more smoothly

rojay12 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:37:00 GMT

First off, I hate really dislike IE, although IE 8 is better. Secondly there are ways to overcome the hate dislike. Here is a nice explanation of fixing the img scaling issue in IE. http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/22.html In short, add this to...(read more)

Hide The Default SharePoint Content Libraries/Lists HACK

rojay12 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Recently for a client I created a custom Document Library that is specific to their organization. After creating it I wanted to hide the standard document library that comes with SharePoint. I don't want to delete it, just hide it so it can't be accidentally...(read more)

Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

rojay12 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:33:00 GMT

I recently downloaded the latest version of Apple Safari 4 Beta and was happy to see someone is making progress in standardization. The acid 3 test can be found and run at http://acid3.acidtests.org/ . And the winner is…. Safari 4 – 100/100 Firefox 3...(read more)

Whats the deal with LiveWriter?

rojay12 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Whenever I publish my blog post through LiveWriter it doesn't show up on http://weblogs.asp.net/ . Has anyone else experieced this? Am I missing a setting in LiveWriter?...(read more)

Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

rojay12 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:00 GMT

A while back I found a really cool tool on CodePlex called Terminals. It allows you to store all you RDP, VNC, VMRC, RAS, Telnet, SSH, ICA Citrix, Amazon S3, etc in the same interface. It has a really useful tabbing feature that tabs out all the active...(read more)

Install Windows Live Writer & Use With Your weblogs.asp.net account

rojay12 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:24:00 GMT

This morning I went about finally setting myself up with Windows Live Writer so that I can start taking my blog experience a little more serious. This post will document the procedure needed to setup you weblog.asp.net blog with Windows Live Writers blogging...(read more)

Display SharePoint Documents On Your Company Internet Site

rojay12 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:05:00 GMT

I was recently working on a small POC project. Basically I had an internal MOSS 2007 server site and an locally hosted public facing website. I wanted to have the ability to add files to various MOSS document libraries and then give outside website visitors...(read more)

Five Things You Should Do Before Posting To Forums

rojay12 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:26:00 GMT

<RANT> First off, I like newbies. I like their excitement and their drive. I like what they bring to the community. What I don't like is ill-conceived posting of questions that require follow up questions. The community shouldn't have to pry pertinent...(read more)

Intellisense For AppSettings/ConnectionStrings

rojay12 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:33:00 GMT

One of the most time consuming things to do when starting a new web project is setting up the sites directory structure, until recently. I finally took the time to create myself a few generic templates for Visual Studio enviroment. This has made my ramp...(read more)

Getting all those Infopath forms relinked in SharePoint!

rojay12 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:00 GMT

This is something I threw together when having to relink a couple dozen InfoPath libraries all containing 100-1000 forms. Why Microsoft doesn't have a check all button at the top of the page is beyond me. Here it is... 1) Open the library. Click Settings...(read more)

Getting jQuery to work with MasterPages

rojay12 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:28:00 GMT

Maybe someone from the ASP.Net community can enlighten me, I have always had the hardest time getting the script, css, etc working/rendering correctly when used on the masterpage. On the masterpage I always have to use an absolute path on the script or...(read more)

Sending Mail To Your File System (No Need For A Mail Server)

rojay12 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT

This is a great nuggest I came across the other day. I found this great post ( http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/Sending-Email-in-a-Development-Environment-without-an-SMTP-Server.aspx ) that shows how to redirect mail to a folder instead of an SMTP. Previous...(read more)

RowDataBound and the different states conditions

rojay12 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:58:00 GMT

I constantly need to look this up and always see post surround this subject. The following condition will aide you in determining the state the row is in in a GridView. The real key is the first statement. If (e.Row.RowState And DataControlRowState.Edit...(read more)