Entering Dates in Different Formats   31 May 2006 18:04 GMT
This tip shows how to deal with the various ways different cultures format the way they enter dates in text fields.
Source: DevX

HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner's Guide   31 May 2006 04:00 GMT
Toying with the idea of building your first web site? Or are you tired of being asked to build sites for family and friends? In this hands-on tutorial, Ian Lloyd unwraps the building blocks of web design and development, and shows exactly how they should be used! With this tutorial, readers can begin to build a complete, standards-compliant web site from scratch -- Ian assumes no prior knowledge at all.

Source: SitePoint

Checking All CheckBoxes in a GridView Using Client-Side Script and a Check All CheckBox   31 May 2006 00:00 GMT

Last week I authored an article titled Checking All CheckBoxes in a GridView that illustrated how to add functionality to check all CheckBoxes in a GridView at the click of a button. Specifically, the article examined how to accomplish this using both server-side code and client-side script. In both versions, the page contained two buttons - "Check All" and "Uncheck All" - that, when clicked, caused all of the checkboxes to become checked or unchecked. In the server-side code version, clicking either of these buttons caused a postback and programmatically checked or unchecked all of the CheckBoxes. In the client-side version, the checking and unchecking was handled with a bit of JavaScript code.

In the code download that accompanied Checking All CheckBoxes in a GridView I included an example that improved the user interface with the client-side script approach to include a "Check/Uncheck All" checkbox in the header above the column of CheckBoxes in the GridView (see the screen shot to the right). Checking the header checkbox would check all checkboxes in the GridView, while unchecking the header checkbox would have the opposite effect. Adding such functionality was a bit more tricky than I had at first anticipated due to a couple of subtleties. In this article we'll explore these issues and the workarounds I employed to overcome them. Read on to learn more!

If you've not yet read the original article, Checking All CheckBoxes in a GridView, please take a moment to read that first before continuing on with this article...
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Announcing! Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals   30 May 2006 17:45 GMT
Microsoft announces Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, a market-shifting database development product designed to manage database change and bring the benefits of life cycle development to the database professional.
Source: MSDN

Real-world Reflection in .NET   30 May 2006 15:54 GMT
Find out how to use reflection to build real-world extensible applications that accept snap-in modules from third-party developers.
Source: DevX

Motion Lite - A Rapid Application of the Business Architecture Techniques Used by Microsoft Motion   26 May 2006 18:09 GMT
This article provides an introduction to the Motion Lite methodology for project prioritization and selection, using a case study to illustrate the applicability of the methodology.
Source: MSDN

Add Fingerprint Scan-based Security to Your .NET Applications Today   26 May 2006 18:03 GMT
It wasn't all that long ago that biometric authentication seemed like the kind of sci-fi technology that might never be practical outside of top-secret government laboratories. But believe it or not, you can build a fingerprint scanner into any .NET application you like just by following these simple instructions.
Source: DevX

Google SEO Algorithm Problems   24 May 2006 04:00 GMT
Had any problems with your Google rank lately? In this detailed expose, Rodney charts the history of the notorious Google updates before explaining, in real terms, the effects these have had on webmasters, and making a call for better algorithms in the longer term.

Source: SitePoint

Checking All CheckBoxes in a GridView   24 May 2006 00:00 GMT

A common website user interface pattern is a list of items with a checkbox in each row. The archetypical example is the web-based email client, which allows a series of messages to be selected by checking that email's checkbox. Once one or more emails have been selected, the user can apply some group action on those selected messages, such as deleting them, marking them read, or moving them to a different folder. In addition to having the ability to check each record, one at a time, many such user interfaces also provide a "check all" checkbox in the header row. This checkbox, if checked or unchecked, automatically checks or unchecks all items in the list below.

Creating such a user interface with ASP.NET 2.0's GridView control is quite possible, and is the focus of this article. In particular, we'll look at how to enable "Check All"/"Uncheck All" functionality both using server-side code and client-side script. The server-side option is much simpler to implement, but suffers from requiring a postback when opting to check or uncheck all checkboxes. The client-side approach, on the other hand, offers a snappier and sleeker user interface, but does require a bit more effort to implement correctly.

Read on to learn more!
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ADO.NET Tech Preview: Overview   23 May 2006 23:26 GMT
The next version of ADO.NET will enable a higher-level abstraction of data-access programming by introducing an entity model that brings conceptual-level data access concepts directly into the code.
Source: MSDN