None of us here at CodeBetter could make it to the PDC this year, and it occurred to me that we needed to call in a heavy hitter.  Someone who was already there, and may be inclined to do some blogging for us.  As luck would have it, I got an IM from none other than DonXML saying that he was at the PDC.  I got...

None of us here at CodeBetter could make it to the PDC this year, and it occurred to me that we needed to call in a heavy hitter.  Someone who was already there, and may be inclined to do some blogging for us.  As luck would have it, I got an IM from none other than DonXML saying that he was at the PDC.  I got...

I’m finally done with the code for WSMQ Beta 2!  Whew!  If you’re not familiar with WSMQ, it’s a simple, open queue application with a WSE 2.0 endpoint that is easy to manage, deploy and scale. This latest versoin represents a huge refactoring effort from the Beta 1 version.  I’ve also added a bunch of new...

I’m finally done with the code for WSMQ Beta 2!  Whew!  If you’re not familiar with WSMQ, it’s a simple, open queue application with a WSE 2.0 endpoint that is easy to manage, deploy and scale. This latest versoin represents a huge refactoring effort from the Beta 1 version.  I’ve also added a bunch of new...

Just a quick note to say thanks for supporting our site, and enduring the Google Adsense ads on some of our pages. We've donated all of our Adsense revenue so far received to the Red Cross, to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.  Thanks to WebHost4Eric (Eric Wise) for  providing our current hosting package.  He's not charging...

Just a quick note to say thanks for supporting our site, and enduring the Google Adsense ads on some of our pages. We've donated all of our Adsense revenue so far received to the Red Cross, to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.  Thanks to WebHost4Eric (Eric Wise) for  providing our current hosting package.  He's not charging...

I’ve just been wowed by the success of CodeBetter.Com.  We’ve grown to nearly 20K unique daily visitors in just over 6 months.  Of course the main reason for our success is the twenty unstoppable blogging machines (UBMs) we’ve managed to amass. Really, these guys are outstanding. I’m truly humbled to be blogging with...

I’ve just been wowed by the success of CodeBetter.Com.  We’ve grown to nearly 20K unique daily visitors in just over 6 months.  Of course the main reason for our success is the twenty unstoppable blogging machines (UBMs) we’ve managed to amass. Really, these guys are outstanding. I’m truly humbled to be blogging with...

One UI element that has always been tricky to create in ASP.NET applications is the Modal Window.  Often, applications will present an entire page for simple property editing, in situations where a modal window is a more elegant, and straight-forward UI element.  This is probably due mainly to the fact that there are no...

One UI element that has always been tricky to create in ASP.NET applications is the Modal Window.  Often, applications will present an entire page for simple property editing, in situations where a modal window is a more elegant, and straight-forward UI element.  This is probably due mainly to the fact that there are no...

I know that Steve and Peter are among the many bloggers eager to find out who the winners to the Blog'n My Way to the PDC contest are...   It will no doubt be a fantastic year for the PDC. .NET and Visual Studio are really hitting their strides, and on top of it all, there's Vista (no pun intended).  Hey, maybe MS will do an...

Well, it appears that CodeBetter.Com has outgrown our WebHost4Life account.  You know how I knew that?  Cause they shut us down!  That’s right, just turned off our server.  They did the same thing to our friend DonXml: The wonderful folks at WebHosting4Life shut down my site for a while today. Seems as though this...

Well, it appears that CodeBetter.Com has outgrown our WebHost4Life account.  You know how I knew that?  Cause they shut us down!  That’s right, just turned off our server.  They did the same thing to our friend DonXml: The wonderful folks at WebHosting4Life shut down my site for a while today. Seems as though this...

A common need for web-based reporting is to create a UI to allow the user to apply filter criteria to a set of data.  Usually, this involves coding a fairly complicated UI, and associated code to apply the filtering logic to a DataView.  This UI usually is fairly static, possibly containing a drop down list to...

Like Roy, we’ve decided to experiment with Google Adsense ads on our homepage.  There are a lot of things we could do around here with a little cash, such as upgrade our hosting account, so we thought, why not? Actually, we do everything around here by a voting process on our member forums.  It’s pretty cool - if we have...