Archive for category ASP.NET
Populate TreeView From Custom Object Using Serializer
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, Web Services on December 21, 2010
From time to time I need to spit out the public properties of an object for various reasons. A typical use would be to show user friendly results from a web service that returns a complex object. There could be tons of other uses! After doing this a few times, I finially decided to post [...]
Automatically Add RequiredFieldValidator to TextBox Controls
If you are like me, you hate having to create the required field validators for a bunch of TextBox controls. Even more if you are adding Ajax ValidatorCallout controls to all of them. Sure, you could create another server control to extent the Textbox to automatically include this…but here is a simple alternative. I created [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inventory Application
Posted by Eric in .NET 2.0, ASP.NET, Desktop Applications, MS SQL, Web Applications on August 17, 2009
Background: As for any company, physical inventory time is never fun. Our inventory software did not have a good interface for doing this. Problem: The process of taking physical inventory was long and tedious. The process typically involved printing our a huge list of parts, write in the quantity next to the part, then someone [...]
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