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Drawing on an Image to Create a Progress/Status Indicator

by 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. [More]

Random Testimonials For Your Site

by 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. [More]

Exporting Data Tables To Microsoft Excel from ASP.NET Pages

by Nicole Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:17 AM
data table, Microsoft Excel, export, table [More]

Using SQL RETURNING INTO to get newly created ID

by 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. [More]

Raising event from a user control to parent page

by Nicole Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:49 PM
How to raise an event from a user control to the parent page. [More]

Filtering repeater items in column headers

by 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. [More]

Custom Error Box control

by 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. [More]

File type and size validation on upload

by Nicole Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:44 PM
In my applications, the functionality allowing end users to upload various types of files to the web server is a given. The need to to check and constrain the file type and file size before allowing it to be saved on your server space is also obvious. It wouldn't be wise to unnecessarily let users upload 50MB+ files to your web server over and over. [More]

Hierarchical data controls with column total

by Nicole Monday, August 03, 2009 11:54 PM
ASP.NET data controls can be nested within each other to create hierarchical data views that can get quite detailed. I'm going to illustrate how to perform this using two common data controls: The repeater and the gridview controls. [More]