Excellent article on getting AD info using C#
I’m always getting, updating, and validating against AD info at my company, and today I needed to pull several different schema attributes in one method, and kept running into more and more trouble. Code got bigger and bigger, and I thought there had to be a way to simplify this. I then ran across a CodeProject article definitely worth mentioning. The author, Rajasekhara Sambangi does an excellent job of demonstrating a simplified way of pulling just about anything from AD…
Import an Excel 2007 spreadsheet into a GridView in ASP.Net
I had a request earlier today for an existing web-based solution written in C# ASP.Net 2.0 to be able to upload an Excel 2007 spreadsheet and have the site immediately read from that file and put the results into a GridView control on the same page for editing, review, etc. I had never done this before, all of my data access was typically SQL, Access, XML, etc. So I did some light research and ended up writing the following code…
New code library site
I created a basic code library site to host all of the code snippets I’ve gathered and/or created over time. Go here to visit the site. It’s pretty basic and empty right now, I’ll dress it up a little more as time goes on. I’m also trying to determine a better way of sub-categorizing the code in each of the language tabs. I welcome suggestions. Enjoy!
WPF Databinding to a Combobox
So I’m trying to hone my skills in ASP.Net while at the same time learn new technology and languages. I’ve been working with WPF since it came out, and the more I play with it the more I like it. My most recent project includes quite a bit of databinding, which I quickly learned is very different from ASP.Net. For this posting, I’ll assume we need to databind to a Combobox. Before I begin, please note this is of course…
Setting a Silverlight slider control at initialization
I recently ran into a problem where I needed a Silverlight slider control pre-populated with a specific value when the page loaded, but if you use the slider`s ValueChanged event in the code behind file, it dies. Why? Because as the page loads and initializes, the code behind is trying to run and the slider control hasn`t finished being created yet. Putting the values I wanted them to start at worked fine, as long as you put them after the…