The Bit Depeche

A ViewState friendly DataSource pager control

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:50:00 GMT

Every programmer has his own style of doing things like displaying lists of databound information with some paging control. Me, I used to favor a combination of ListView plus two DataPager controls - but getting them to work both inside an UpdatePanel and also with links for Google to follow to page 2 etc., that required the same somewhat tricky code copied to every page that needed paging. And repeating the same code is a sign that I probably better put that shared code inside a new server... Read the full article...

Using precompiled resources (resx files) in ASP.NET

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Or: What Microsoft forgot to tell about localization! I was recently reading the book "MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4", just to catch up on the development since I last formally studied ASP.NET. In their chapter about localization they write about how to use the App_GlobalResources and the App_LocalResources folders - but they forgot to mention a third option. The thing is: Those two folders give problems if you want... Read the full article...

Ajax Safe Uploader has reached version 1.0.0!

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:44:00 GMT

For some months I have been busy on other projects, but last week I did a brave new thing: I did an alpha test of a website by letting a potential user with very little computer knowledge try it out, while I was sitting in the background - just looking at what he did, trying my very best not to interrupt or comment on anything he did. The experiment was a huge eye opener! Not only did it reveal several bugs (because he did things I have never imagined a user would do), it also revealed... Read the full article...

Moving hosting provider and mail

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:05:00 GMT

For several different reasons I am moving to a different hosting provider (from web10.dk to surftown.dk). But for the next 24 hours this website (and my email) will probably be unstable until the whole world of DNS is aligned to this new fact... Shit - some of the unicode signs did not survive the translation through an SQL script, so I will have to go through all the old text to fix places where one letter or symbol has gotten changed to 2 or 3 strange things... Updated... Read the full article...

Testing the AjaxSafeUpload control

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:37:00 GMT

Last updated: 16/3 2012 at 19:30. (Newest notes near the bottom.) I am starting this new blog entry to document the testing progress for getting the AjaxSafeUpload production ready - that is: moving it from version 0.9 to 1.0. It is important to know that the only way websites can select a file from your harddrive and upload it, is by using the HTML tag. The AjaxSafeUpload control and the JavaScript tries to make it easier for programmers and designers by hiding... Read the full article...

An MS-Ajax-safe version of asp:FileUpload

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:59:00 GMT

The asp:FileUpload control is a nightmare for both designers and programmers. Designers cannot style it, because every browser renders it different. Programmers have to make full postbacks to get the file contents, but if any validation of other input fields require user handling then the file will be lost on the next postback. Since I right now have 2 projects that needs a better solution for this, I have set out to solve the problem one and for all. The goal - making an ASP.NET... Read the full article...

My first app-like website for mobile phones

Sun, 15 May 2011 10:32:00 GMT

Now finally, after some months of testing, my first website made to work like a native smartphone app is online. It is the hour reporting system for consultants working for ProData Consult, so unless you have a Danish contract with them, you will not see anything except the login page at: konsulenter.dk/m But the basic concept is as follows: Instead of making an app for just one or two smartphones (which would always annoy all those who have selected a different smartphone), I have tried to... Read the full article...

UrlEncode for Windows codepage 1252 in ASP.NET

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:51:00 GMT

On the project that I am currently working, I need to send SMS messages. Sending SMS'es is easy enough - you just call the URL of your chosen provider with your username etc. billing-information and then of course the text message for the SMS as part of the URL. But guess what - ASP.NET's own UrlEncode is set up for converting to UTF-8, and the SMS provider of course wants text in codepage 1252 - otherwise the special danish letters (like "øæå") gets lost. It might be possible to configure... Read the full article...

To make a CMS or not make a CMS - that is the question

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:14:00 GMT

This website is using MojoPortal and previously I have used DotNetNuke a lot, but both systems are huge programs that take a long time to start up when the first request comes - that is the major curse of using ASP.NET on a webhotel where processes are recycled after 20 minutes without any traffic. Also I like using Artisteer to make the overall design and typography rules, but it is not as smooth to use its templates as I would like. Also I have started making websites for mobile phones, and ... Read the full article...

European cookie chaos - 3 countries approach to the new law

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:43:00 GMT

The European Union have passed a law about cookies, which each member country now has to implement in their own law. But it seams like nobody really understands what the new European law actually says or means, and the result is that both Denmark and United Kingdom have copied the law text precisely, because they are afraid that any clarification of the law text would result in harm to their own countries' Internet business... Germany on the other hand seam to go totally crazy and wants to... Read the full article...