Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

I hate several things about programming in the .NET stack, well not really that they affect me now. But it is really some of the ways we teach new .NET programmers to program in the .NET stack. Primarily it relates to the way we teach newbies how to manager data access with the View and DataSource controls. Beyond that it is that far too often we ...

I want to thank TRINUG, my local user group, for letting be the main presenter last night.  I talked about how to take the data controls like GridView, Datalist and Repeater to another level.  I sort of did a progression of creating and controlling custom layouts in the data controls.  This started with a review of some basic items, ...

I will be presenting on Wednesday June 14 to TRINUG about customizing data controls.  I plan on covering various topics related to customizing the display and manipulation of data.  I found real quick that bound data columns just do not ever cut it for a production site.  The ability to customize the user's experience when ...

I have really been struggling lately with the Gridview.  Most of the time I like to use a label, literal or placeholder in a template column so this does not really affect me.  But I still use a BoundColumn for some fields, like a date or price type thing.  In DataGrids I always was able to use DataFormatString="{0:c} for a ...

Since starting with .NET back in the summer of 2001 I have used datasets and dataviews about 99.9% of the time to organize my records of data for my applications.  I think they are great, especially the dataview.  I mean you can execute SQL right inside of your view with the RowFilter and Sort commands.  I have thought many times ...