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Nicole
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:58 PM
I was super stoked to get Visual Studio 2010 for my machine but had major issues installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to go along with it. I ran through setup and had a successful install, but when I went to create a new local SQL Server database in Visual Studio, the following extremely annoying error message would occur: "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed."
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Nicole
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:16 PM
I wanted to give the administrative users a visual way to see the completion status of an application. Here I create a progress indicator bar that is dynamically filled based on the percentage completion of the application.
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Nicole
Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:02 PM
One of my freelance projects is a redesign for a client in the health industry. They wanted a random testimonial to appear in the master page template on each page load. Here I created a custom user control that will display a random testimonial on each page load in a very nice looking way.
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Nicole
Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:17 AM
data table, Microsoft Excel, export, table
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Nicole
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:56 AM
A common problem for developers is how to get a newly created ID after a database insert. For example, let's say that we have two database tables. One table is called Customers and the other table is named Orders. The integrity relationship requires that a customer record exist before an order record for that customer is created.
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Nicole
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:49 PM
How to raise an event from a user control to the parent page.
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Nicole
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:27 PM
The down and dirty way to reset your Blog Engine password when using MSSQL and BlogEngine 1.5.0.7.
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Nicole
Monday, August 17, 2009 10:41 AM
I'm redesigning (more like upgrading to .Net 3.5) my company's help desk website
and the previous developer had implemented a real time filtering concept on a large
table of employee names, emails, and phone numbers. It was a really neat idea, but
used an external Javascript file and inline looping code to create the html table
with the rows.
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Nicole
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:54 AM
Since applying a custom style to match the theme of your site can really add a lot
in terms of appearance and continuity, I thought that I would share a couple of
my favorite CSS styles for ASP.NET controls. These are small changes that can add up and really make a lasting impression on the end user.
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Nicole
Sunday, August 09, 2009 9:59 PM
Gracefully handling exceptions and showing a somewhat informational and yet non-irritating
error message to the end user is very high on my development priority list. Early
in my development career, I used a label control to display my "oops" messages to
users. In addition to that label, I usually ended up with another label for other
more user productive messages, such as when an update was completed.
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