JavaScript dynamically set onclick value

Posted on February 5, 2018March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

The other day I needed to generate href strings in my WebForms application, pass that href string in a button OnClientClick event to a JavaScript method that in turn would take that href string and dynamically add it to a particular button’s onclick event to set the document.location.href value. Now I may not have done […]... Read More

.Net Web Site to Web Application

Posted on December 11, 2017March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

At my current employer, I support and develop desktop and web site applications. The biggest and most important application is a .Net WebForms website written in VB.net. Though I have done VB and some VB.net in the past, most of my recent experience has been in C#. For the previous 6+ years I had done […]... Read More

Tags Manager for Visual Studio Team Services

Posted on November 28, 2017March 1, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

With a recent job change I found my self in a role of sole ownership of a few applications (both web and desktop) with no source control, no requirements, no backlog of product requests etc. Anyway, so I quickly created an account with VisualStudion Team Services, the new and improved TFS in the cloud. I […]... Read More

Nature Photography Sep–Nov 2017

Posted on November 20, 2017April 17, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Time to post some more of my hobby pictures… taking pictures of random nature and wildlife. Looking through these pictures and pictures from my last Nature Photography seems to indicate I don’t get out much or my life is quite a routine. Our unofficial outdoor pets are the local tree frogs. This summer and […]... Read More

Where is your Right Click Context Menu?

Posted on July 15, 2011March 2, 2018 by jrblack 6 Comments

Recently working on the UI of a WPF project I struggled attempting to get the Right Click Context Menu to appear as normal, to the right and below the mouse pointer. No matter what options I used with ContextMenu (.Placement and .PlacementRectangle) the Context Menu would appear to the left and down instead of the […]... Read More

HydroForce Designs

Posted on January 18, 2011March 2, 2018 by jrblack 5 Comments

Casting Crowns, on of my top favorite Christian rock bands recently had a contest. Mark Hall, the lead singer, recently made a new years resolution to stop drinking sweet drinks (soda, sweet tea, etc) in favor of just water or something not sweetened. He tweeted about this and soon had interest from band members and […]... Read More

Outdoor Nature Pictures from Plateau

Posted on November 19, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 1 Comment

In August I took the family to Pocono Plateau, an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference United Methodist church camp. Kim and I were councilors for the week while the kids were campers. The weather was wonderful and the kids had a great time. The Plateau is where Kim and I met. I snapped a bunch of nice […]... Read More

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