Archive for category .NET 3.5

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 [...]

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.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 [...]

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Cross-thread operation not valid: .NET Cross Threading To Update Form Control

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 [...]

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E-manage Mobile Portal

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 [...]

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