Don’t Expose the full web site menu to the world

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Here I am with another story given to me by a recent contractor software developer that worked for me. Unfortunately he was no longer with us by the time I discovered this, so I couldn’t share it with him. We were converting VB desktop apps to ASP.Net MVC C# applications, converting VB classic web apps […]... Read More

The code compiles… testing complete

Posted on June 12, 2019July 15, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

I recently had a contract developer brought in to help out for a while. Pickings were slim at the time so when we found someone with good breadth of experience we made a choice. He certainly knew code, C#, ASP.Net and MVC, most of the complete Microsoft Development stack. He tended to ask questions, too […]... Read More

Toad Data Modeler

Posted on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 by jrblack 2 Comments

At work our primary web application is supported or driven by a database that is not relational, has lots of redundant data, some tables don’t have Keys, there are not Foreign Keys or indexes. For those DBA’s that found this article, it would be a nightmare. So, with the database concerns and other architecture and […]... Read More

GemBox for Excel

Posted on March 21, 2018April 17, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

A few weeks back I had a requirement to have a web page link that when clicked, the server side postback would open an excel file (as a template with formulas and such), populate a few fields in the worksheet and copy row 37 and for each record in result set, insert/past that copied row […]... Read More

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

Using

Posted on September 11, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

Using .Net. No, I am not referring to drug that I am using called .NET, but the Using statement in the .NET framework. The “Using” statement in .NET framework provides a convenient syntax that ensures the correct use of IDisposable objects. If .NET object you are using implements IDisposable, then you can simply call the […]... Read More

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