Creating a Five-Star Rating ControlCode download available at: AdvancedBasics0501.exe (144 KB) Browse the Code Online I have to admit it; most of my Windows® Forms controls are an attempt to copy something that already exists. In my October 2004 column I showed you how to create a progress bar that mimicked the one shown during [...]
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Cloud Diagnostics: Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure
Posted by james on October 3, 2011
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Like many programmers, when I first started writing code I used print statements for debugging. I didn’t know how to use a debugger and the print statements were a crude but effective way to see what my program was doing as it ran. Later, I learned to use a real debugger and dropped the print [...]
Take Control: Use SharePoint to Manage Your Windows Services
Posted by james on September 14, 2011
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Use SharePoint to Manage Your Windows ServicesThis article discusses: SharePoint integration for Windows services Windows service and instance classes Process identity types for Windows services Starting and stopping services This article uses the following technologies: Windows SharePoint ServicesAll Windows Server operating systems depend heavily on Windows services. This hasn’t changed since Microsoft first introduced services [...]
GDI+: A Primer on Building a Color Picker User Control with GDI+ in Visual Basic .NET or C#
Posted by james on August 7, 2011
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Filtering an ASP.NET GridView control with jQuery
Posted by james on June 24, 2011
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As I’ve been swimming in the great jQuery lake I discovered the jQuery QuickSearch Plugin,As WebForms developers we often display lots of data using a gridview control.I though it would be neet to set up using the jQuery QuickSearch plugin with the Gridview.Here’s how it works.Ihave a GridView wired to some sample data. For demo [...]
jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ?
Posted by james on June 23, 2011
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I recently received this email from an MSJoe blog reader. Hi Joe, thanks for the posts about jquery..I’m now wondering, we are using the ms ajax toolkit. I like the simple use of it. Now doing jquery you will have to write javascript, which will have the advantage that all cpu cycles are spend on [...]
Passing own argument as a control custom attribute Asp.Net C#
Posted by james on April 29, 2011
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I learn something new today that I want to share with you. How can you pass your own argument to any JavaScript Element object from code behind that you can access it like property of that object from JavaScript? Let’s say you are using custom validator and you want to highlight the control with red [...]
Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control (Automation and Control Engineering)
Posted by james on April 11, 2011
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The hard disk drive is one of the finest examples of the precision control of mechatronics, with tolerances less than one micrometer achieved while operating at high speed. Increasing demand for higher data density as well as disturbance-prone operating environments continue to test designers’ mettle. Explore the challenges presented by modern hard disk drives and [...]