FormView Edit and Add

The FormView generally makes editing a record at a time pretty easy.  However, one of the biggest problems I’ve seen with this control is that there is no way of telling the FormView to use the same template for both Add and Update.  My experience has been that most of the time, Add and Update look exactly the same, or enough the same that you could use one template and hide the inappropriate controls in the template.

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Monday, May 12th, 2008

Who’s AJAX Should You Use?

Just had someone ask me a question this morning that I bet many others have asked or are asking…

Should I use MS-AJAX, that comes with ASP.NET or should I use something from another vendor?

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

OOP is not the main problem w/ ASP.NET

Over at Jeff’s Junk, Jeff discusses what he feels is the main problem people have with ASP.NET.  That is, they don’t understand object oriented programming.

Jeff, you’ve got half the problem.

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Thursday, March 27th, 2008