C# in its 6th version received its major change in the language engine “the compiler” along with many other little improvements in the language features The new compiler “Roslyn” C#/VB teams were working for years on the new compiler Roslyn, and here is why What is wrong with the old compiler? The old compiler is some… Continue reading .NET 2015: C# 6
In this post I am going to mention some free development tools and services offered by Microsoft which help .NET developers to set up their development environment from IDE to Version Control to Work Planning to Build and finally deployment Visual Studio Community Free full-featured IDE with support for all different kinds of applications supported by… Continue reading .NET 2015: Free Developer Tools
The world of .NET Platform has witnessed a lot of changes and enhancements in its 2015 version which span a wide variety of areas. This post is the first in a series where I am going to write about what I found important for every .NET web developer to know about .NET 2015. First off,… Continue reading .NET 2015: The Platform and The Openness
Today I got a defect to fix which is “File Upload functionality is not working when using IE9”. Oh IE9 again!!. I just wanted to show a nice and consistent UI for file input element and as there is no standard way to customize it with my own text and look, I used a button… Continue reading Customizing file upload element by using associated label workaround
Over again, supporting IE7 is a nightmare. Today I have been assigned to a defect says “When user enters long text and words in text editor in modal popup using IE7, the whole page/window horizontal scroll bar appeared and get wider as the user typing”. I used AJAX Control Toolkit HTMLEditorExtender to provide simple formatting… Continue reading ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit HTMLEditorExtender issue when in modal popup in IE 7
As the page’s content becomes bigger and bigger like the one I am working on currently, specific features are more critical than others. In such case we may need to apply performance and user experience techniques such as content lazy loading, partial content updating, and maintain page’s scroll position cross requests, and more … I… Continue reading Page.MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack issue in IE 7 when nested GridViews used
I recently needed to hide or disable PDF format in Export Formats dropdown list displayed in SSRS ReportViewer’s toolbar in Local Report mode. Unfortunately, ReportViewer control has no method or property to manage specific format’s visibility and this is true also for the recently released Report Viewer 10. We can use Report Viewer’s property ShowExportControls… Continue reading Hide export format in RDLC/SSRS Report Viewer control
Is it the time to leave my pen, sticky clips and such physical and paper-based stuff when I am writing my daily notes? Windows 7 introduced new feature Sticky Notes which enables Windows users to write their notes on the top of Windows Desktop. You can open Sticky Notes through Start Menu => Accessories as… Continue reading Windows 7 – Sticky Notes
In some applications when we need to display large sets of data , Data Paging is our choice in order to improve the performance. For ASP.NET developers we can use Data Paging mechanism provided by the most of ASP.NET Data-bound Controls such as GridView. The default behavior of ASP.NET Data Controls is to bring the… Continue reading Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL Paging
Note: This issue should be resolved by converting VS 2008 (SSRS 2005) RDLCs to VS 2010 (SSRS 2008) RDLCs and adding Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll Version 10 reference to your .NET Framework 3.5 project’s references instead of Version 9 Thanks to the Framework Multi-Targeting new feature of Visual Studio 2010 which enables .NET developers to develop .NET applications… Continue reading Visual Studio 2010 Report Designer doesn’t support SSRS 2005 format
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