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Cures for the Common Ailments – Getting a Random Item in JavaScript
At the end of the day yesterday one of my peers at my client came over and asked me how to randomly select an item from a SharePoint List. She was retrieving the list using jQuery and only wanted to display one item from the list, but she wanted that Read More...
Creating a Background Thread to Log IP Information
Trolling the ASP.NET forums this afternoon I came across this thread about creating a custom httpHandler to log IP information to a database . What the requester was trying to do was call a remote site’s ( www.ShowMyIP.com ) REST API to get information Read More...
Cures for the Common Ailments - DropDownList
A very common issue that many new developers come into when using a DropDownList control is how to truly bind items to the list. A common problem that happens is they bind just the items or records from the list. This creates an issue when the user wants Read More...
Cures for Common Ailments Part 2 – Sending E-Mail from ASP.NET
While for most sending an E-Mail message tends to be fairly trivial to seasoned .NET programmers, a new .NET programmer might find it a little mysterious. .NET has all this functionality wrapped up for us in the System.Net.Mail namespace to maange the Read More...
Cures for Common Aliments - Using a RequiredFieldValidator with a RadioButtonList, DropDownList, ListBox and any other ListItem Control
I have decided that it would be useful to post a series of solutions to some fairly common problems encountered by many ASP.NET programmers. Some of these cures will be second nature to many, but they will all be a useful reference at some point in your Read More...