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We cover all aspects of developing a website, such as design, graphics, search engine submissions and business focus. As an ASP.NET developer its important to understand these areas aswell, to work efficently in a web team or expand your own skill set.

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Date only comparison on date types

Posted 18 July 2011 - Category VB.Net Sub Category Manipulating Types

Compare just the date part of a date object ignoring the time

Work out lines of code in your visual studio solution

Posted 17 June 2011 - Category ASP.Net Sub Category Visual Studio

Quick way to work out the lines of code written in your visual studio solution using the search facility.

Recompile all stored procedures, user-defined functions and views in the database

Posted 01 March 2011 - Category SQL Sub Category Database State

This script will recompile all stored procedures, user-defined functions and views in the database. This will refresh stored procedures execution plans stored in memory in order to reflect recent schema changes. Previous structures for instance in table functions can be held which will not represent new table structures correctly. So as a process it is good to run this when deploying new versions of the database.

Make the cursor different when over some text on a page

Posted 21 December 2010 - Category CSS Sub Category HTML

This makes the cursor different when over some text.

Problem with creating an index on a large table causes timeout

Posted 30 June 2010 - Category SQL Sub Category Enterprise Manager

If you are performing a long processing operation such as creating an index on a large table, you may find that enterprise manager times out.

Use ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript rather than Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript with an ajax aspx page to add javascript

Posted 04 June 2010 - Category Javascript Sub Category General

When using ajax aspx pages use RegisterStartupScript. Using techniques such as response.write to add scripts on an event postback will not render the page correctly.

No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress error when doing find in visual studio

Posted 14 April 2010 - Category ASP.Net Sub Category Visual Studio

'No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress' can appear when doing a find in visual studio. This is a bug as the find in question should return results.

Change SQL Server bit field to the opposite value using ~

Posted 13 April 2010 - Category SQL Sub Category Language TSQL

In sql server you can flip the bit field value by using the ~ (tilde) operator

The virtual path '/UserControls/FormExtra.ascx' maps to another application, which is not allowed

Posted 29 March 2010 - Category ASP.Net Sub Category Page Interaction

This error occured when publishing a site but was working ok inside visual studio usage. The solution in this case is simple.

Stop decimal place pence from being entered into a currency entry using a RegularExpressionValidator

Posted 26 March 2010 - Category ASP.Net Sub Category Controls Validation

When entering a currency value this extra use of the RegularExpressionValidator stops the entry of a '.' and thus prevents pence form being entered.

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