Usually when testing a database I fill it with loads of dummy data. This helps both me and the client see what their site will look like once real data is in their system. Just before the site goes live it's always a good idea to remove the...
There have been times when making forms with radio buttons that I have used ASP:RadioButtonLists but recently I was working on a project that required me to have a lot of radio buttons on screen within a nicely styled grid. I could have taken the easy (but messy) way...
The web.config file can be a handy place to put site wide settings like the website name or contact admin email address. The steps below will let you use your web.config file to store and retrieve those details. This example will show you how to set the website...
I know of a lot of companies, local/national/international, that swear by outsourcing full projects. "You just pass on the work and watch the money roll in" they tell me. "It's so easy I don't even have to work 9-5". Ya,...
We do a lot of payment integrations these days for online stores, charity sites, etc. One provider we do a lot of payment integrations with is Realex Payments. They offer a number of payment solutions for both clients and developers to choose from. The main types of setup are called...
I noticed that this one seems to catch a good few people out - including myself when I was starting out with Master Pages. If you have an aspx page that sits in your Master Page you might have a need of populating a label or a textbox (or other...
This can be a nice little trick to do if you want to hide options on a user after an update or after so many products are selected, etc. Simply wrap the area you want to hide in a div element and put a runat="server" value into...
I'm just back from a week of snowboarding in Pamporovo in Bulgaria. It was always something that I wanted to do and it is definitely something I will do again but right now my body is in shut down mode. It was the toughest thing I have ever...
I had to use the script below to read in values from an Excel sheet using C# recently. The script itself is generic enough but it has one benefit - you don't need to know the name of the sheet you want to import. This can be very...