IE: scrollTop Not Working As Expected
I banged my head on this one for a couple of days. Still got a defect out of the deal, but finally got it working. I had an ajax tabcontainer with several tabs. In some of these tabs was GridView. I had overflow set on a DIV that the GridView was placed in so that [...]
.NET Serialization: Binary, SOAP, and XML (VB)
In .NET when you need to shrink an object into a more portable format you have 3 choices. Binary, SOAP, or XML. The process of shrinking and expanding the object is called serialization and deserialization. Each option has it’s own advantages which I will explain. Binary You can serialize an object into binary format quite [...]
JobTime: Time Clock Web Application And Job Cost Tracking
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, AJAX, ASP.NET, Web Applications on September 5, 2009
Background The company needed to track time logged to particular jobs/projects. The initial idea was to use a site like ClickTime. However, for an employee to log time against a job, you would need to tell ClickTime all of your jobs (which would be tedious) or configure an integration app to automatically populate the available [...]
Cross-thread operation not valid: .NET Cross Threading To Update Form Control
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, Code Snippets on September 3, 2009
So you get the “Cross-thread operation not valid” error because you are trying to update an object on your form from a thread. I am not going to try to “glamor” you (True Blood reference) with fundamentals of delegates, threading, etc. If that is what you are looking for, search Google and you will find [...]
Automatic Email Alerts From Any SQL Query
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, Desktop Applications, MS SQL on September 2, 2009
Problem Reminder emails were needed to be sent out to remind sales staff to follow up on projects. Solution I developed a simple command line executable that takes 1 parameter which is an XML file. The contents of the XML file would look something like: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <Settings> <ErrorEmail> <Email>email@gmail.com</Email> </ErrorEmail> <SummaryEmail> <Email>email@gmail.com</Email> [...]
A .NET Bit.ly API Helper Class (Visual Basic.NET)
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, Code Snippets, Web Services on August 24, 2009
I decided to write a helper class for using the Bit.ly API for creating short urls. You know, those tiny links that you see all over Facebook, Twitter, etc. The snippet below shows how you would use the helper class. Not only can you shorten an url, you can shorted multiple urls in a single [...]
Custom Replace with Regular Expressions in .NET
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, Code Snippets, Regular Expressions on August 20, 2009
This is the second time I have had to do something like this. So this time I am posting it for my reference. Regular expressions are amazing and amazingly difficult to understand sometimes, but they come in very handy. I was in a situation where I was going to need to feed in a custom [...]
E-manage Mobile Portal
Posted by Eric in .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, MS SQL, Web Applications, Web Services on August 18, 2009
Background: E-manage is a business management application. It is capable of managing customer databases (CRM) as well as projects, invoices, purchase orders, and inventory to name a few. The e-manage client application runs on a users desktop and uses Microsoft .NET as foundation along with a Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end. Problem: Getting information [...]
eManage Search for Blackberry
Posted by Eric in ASP.NET, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Blackberry MDS Runtime, MS SQL, Web Services on August 17, 2009
Background: Our CRM software contains a huge list of contacts that are only available from within the software application. Problem: It becomes a challenge when a sales team member is out of the office (on the road) and needs a customer’s phone number or email address. It is typically not feasible to boot up their [...]
Desktop Loader
Posted by Eric in ASP.NET, FTP, Web Services on August 17, 2009
Background: As new updates or new applications come to light, they need to be installed on everyone’s machine in the company. Problem: It becomes a challenge to automatically install applications on everyone’s machine. At the time this was typically done using "Logon Scripts" that fire off after you log in. However, this would only work [...]
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