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jQuery – Date Picker

July 02, 2009 By: Dave

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Today we’ll start taking a look at the final control in the jQuery UI suite.  The Date Picker.

This control, as with all the other controls we’ve looked at, is relatively simple as long as you keep in mind that you need to use the jQuery UI Styles with it.

So let’s begin.

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Using VB.NET From CSharp

July 01, 2009 By: Dave

G08L0047 Back when I was teaching .NET to other programmers regularly, I would frequently get the following question from a VB6 programmer moving to CSharp.

“Is there any way of using some of the VB functions I’m used to using within CSharp?”

The answer to this question has two parts, which we will explore today.

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iTextSharp – Adding Images

June 30, 2009 By: Dave

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Last week I showed how to use form fields to control placement of dynamic data.

But what if you want to dynamically place images in your PDF?  You can stuff them into a form field like you can with text.

However, one of the items you can retrieve from the form field is its location on the screen.  Using this, a little math, and some iTextSharp image code, we can place images in our PDF where the form field was located.  Here’s how I do it.

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Hungarian Notation – Use What Works, Spit Out The Bones

June 29, 2009 By: Dave

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I am about to embark on the “religious” topic of naming conventions.  I was reminded of this topic by the short post, “Hungarian Notation, what do I think”, by Richard Dingwall.

I’m sure there will be those of you who will disagree with me, but as I’ve stated in previous posts, these general guidelines I’ve been using for .NET programming have served me well since .NET 1.0; they are meant as strong suggestions for those who are looking for guidance, not rules I expect the industry to adopt because I know better than anyone else.

In fact, while I will propose what I consider the “best” way, I will also provide some alternatives.

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June 26, 2009 By: Dave

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