OK, this is hands down one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a while. When dynamically creating RadioButtons for a registration form, I discovered that even if the GroupName was set correctly, the group would not behave as expected and keep the selections unique. After a very short search,... [More]

I developed a habit a few years ago (and it escapes me where I first saw it used) of extending my Business Objects with little display helpers for easily serializing them into web pages and email templates. At first, I was just overriding .ToString(), but that never really felt like the right plac... [More]

I’m doing more and more integration with Microsoft CRM and the new public CBMC website we’re getting to roll in a few weeks. The more I work with it, I’m struck by two distinct things: 1) the sheer power and flexibility of CRM as a platform (and I don’t like tossing the &ld... [More]

Ok, I fully realize this runs into the far reaches of obscurity, but I felt like sharing. I was just uploading an admin tool for one of our clients that host their own site. Part of the tool configuration was allowing write access to folder a for file uploads. Now, usually this just follows the simp... [More]

I was looking for a quick way to edit an XML config file used in an admin tool and was excited when I started looking into the XmlDataSource class introduced with .NET 2.0. As billed, this class "Represents an XML data source to data-bound controls" - ie: you can use it to bind to a GridVi... [More]