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WebsiteSpark Program for Noobies and Small Businesses

Microsoft has been moving at lightning speed to give software away. Especially to web professionals that want to make a huge difference in their new start-up career.  They may actually be on their way to provide a great stimulus package, that’s what I think. When Microsoft decides to give away thousands of dollars of software [...]


Dreamspark Opportunity Extended

The opportunity for students just got a little sweeter. It used to be that under the Dreamspark program, college students wanting to get their feet wet in programming, could signup for the program and receive some of Microsoft’s flagship programming applications for free! Yes, free! When did Microsoft ever offer something for free. Well, they [...]


C# Missing References

If you are getting an error like “The type or namespace name does not exist in the namespace” you may have found yourself tweaking the references or the using statements in your C# code. The using statement and the referencing statement differ in that the using statement is a logical link and reference to the [...]


Using properties in an ASP.net Web Control

When creating a web control in an ASP.net application many times you will need to make references to information, data values and other contents of the web control from the web control parent. This is done by adding a Property statement on the control. It could be as simple as a Username and Password control [...]


C# GridView rows not vertically aligned

A recent project caused me grief until it dawned on me what the problem and the fix was. The GridView has a height property value and if it’s changed from the default (which is NULL), or to anything less than 25px (arbitrary number) you may experience an undesierable result where the GridView will vertically align [...]