Software Blog

I've recently been developing a control to display recent news in a rotating fashion. Originally, I was using the RadRotator control from Telerik. This is a powerful control that takes a lot of the guesswork out of displaying and rotating news. However, I decided to build my own for two reasons.

First, I didn't like the way the rotator control loads ALL of the news items before running. The RadRotator works by preloading all of the elements, placing each item into its own div element, then cycling through each, toggling visibility of each one at a time. This solution works ...

I've recently needed to develop a method to allow users to access files that are on a restricted domain. This domain is on an internal server that has no external access. However, it serves documents and files to a webserver that is accessible externally. So the webserver has access to the files, meaning they can upload files to the webserver, which will then save them to the internal server... But the reverse is not true. So we needed a way to "copy" files from the internal server to the end user.

My solution was to use an ASHX handler that ...

Procrastination will only get you so far before you have to finally just put it off and get your ass to work. Today I finally get back into the swing of things with my first post since my sites (still incomplete) migration to SiteFinity Content Management System. I know there is still much to do with existing content, like fixing broken links and all that nonsense, but I'm taking a positive, constructive approach and getting things started with a revival of my now merged Software Blog. Today we talk about validating input parameters for the asp.net objectdatasource control.

As ...