Richard Orchard

ISAPI_Rewrite lets you easily create search engine friendly URL' s for your dynamic asp.net website.  It is an ISAPI module for IIS that mimics the rewriting abilities of the Apache webserver. http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1226666/upcoming-video-project-queens-live-bloopers-the-sequel....

I had a problem for quite some time when i was trying to include external resources within server controls.  When creating an asp.net server control, you may want to include some additional resources in your assembly, such as javascript or images....

If you need to choose dates that are quite a long way off, the typical "calendar" control isn't very practical as you would need to scroll through many, many years.  You could provide a "free form" input, but you want to guarantee a valid date input. A solution is a date input with a drop down control....

 <RO:Link ID="Link1" runat="server" DownloadMessage="Listen"  QueryValue='19' filename='hello.zip'  filesize='100098'  UrlAuthorized="/general/download-file.ashx?q={0}&type=1"></RO:Link>  This control simply creates a link to a file along with a filesize message and an icon....

The standard select list takes each keystroke as the "letter" or "number" to search for.   This isn't particularly nice when you have a long list of items in a select or drop down list. In the case of a list of countries, searching for "Australia", the "a" i type shows the countries beginning with "a", when i type the "u", i am presented with the countries starting with "u"....

The contact form controls creates a "standard contact form" that is found on pretty much every single website.  The idea is to encapsulate this standard element in a single server control - in a similar way to the login control does for login / membership functions....

The asp.net control queries a webservice for information based upon the entry into a textbox. The code for setting up the autocomplete control is simple.  An example looks like: <RO:AutoComplete ID="myAuto" runat="server" WebserviceUrl="/ajax/lyric....

When populating a datagrid you will often use a datareader as it is the fastest way to pull data out of a database. In the case where there aren’t any records, though, this may leave you with an “empty table”, where the columns are showing, even though there is no data....

There is a differnce between VB.NET and C# when including external resources in a server control. This is of particular notice to those using VB.Net. When including JavaScript or images within your custom server control, you will no doubt add a “Resources” folder to your project....

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