Friday Books - Rapid Development
My list of “Must Have Books” would not be complete without a copy of “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnell.
To be honest this is more of a Manager’s book than a Programmer’s book, but I still advise programmers to get a copy and read it. Why? Well for one thing, most of your managers won’t bother. So the only way they are going to get this information is if you read it and tell them.
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A couple of days ago I ran into a requirement to conditionally display footnote information at the bottom of a GridView display. We were already conditionally displaying icons in the row. What we needed to do was to conditionally show text at the bottom of the screen that explained what each icon was for. Here’s how we went about it.
On Monday we discussed how to save setting information for our modules. Today we want to pick back up where we left off and deal with retrieving that information, both in the LoadSettings() method and in the view module.
Or, at least, it didn’t. Here’s what happened:
Since each instance of a module that we put on a page should be able to have it’s own configuration information, it is necessary to have some place that will allow us to configure it.
