Tips and Tricks

How to set different color for each Group Header in WebGrid

Posted on February 10, 2009. Filed under: 2008 R2, Products, Tips and Tricks | Tags: , , |

Hi All,
Few weeks ago I got interesting inquiry from one of our customers, about how to set different color for each group header in WebGrid, and I think that it’s an interesting topics to be post on our corporate blogs.
Ok, first of all you need to bind your Webgrid and at the code behind inside [...]

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Create your own specific row context menu on WebGrid

Posted on September 25, 2008. Filed under: Products, Tips and Tricks | Tags: , |

Sometimes users don’t want to use default row context on WebGrid.NET. Some of them prefer to have their own row context menu on WebGrid. This article will show you how to integrate your own WebContextMenu from WebDesktop.NET into WebGrid.NET.
First, you need to create your own WebContextMenu. In this sample I created two WebContextMenu’s named WBContextMenuSR [...]

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How to overcome license issue in 2008 R2

Posted on September 23, 2008. Filed under: Tips and Tricks | Tags: , |

Hi, I am back again with another tips about our products. Today I want to share tips about how to handle license issue in 2008 R2. For those who have used our 2008 R1 products previously and are now installing the 2008 R2, probably you will get unlicensed issue, eventhough you have used the License [...]

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Resizing EditingForm’s DialogBox in WebScheduler.NET 2.0

Posted on September 10, 2008. Filed under: Development, Tips and Tricks | Tags: , , |

WebScheduler.NET 2.0 already supports Extensibility feature that allows user to extend WebScheduler objects. In many cases, user needs to add several additional fields to the editing form. Due to number of the input controls in the editing form, some of the fields might get hidden the limited width and height (scrollbar will automatically appear in [...]

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Faster than “fastest ASP.NET Grid” – Part II

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: 2008 R1, Development, Tips and Tricks | Tags: , , |

I have received several feedback and comments from our blog reader, and it seems like there is certain factors that are not clearly explained with regards of performance topic that I wrote previously. In this post, I will try to answer several questions in more details.
#1 – Why not using homegrown table for best speed?
Unfortunately, there’s [...]

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“Silverlight” – Will it be the future of Web?

Posted on May 4, 2007. Filed under: General, Tips and Tricks |

Microsoft recently released what they called “Silverlight” (nice name, btw). Microsoft claimed that Silverlight will be the future of Web with the ability to deliver compelling user experiences and rich medias such as videos and animation. If you haven’t aware about SilverLight, check out their FAQ at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/faq.aspx 
We have been evaluating Silverlight (previously called WPF/E) since its [...]

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5 cool features you won’t want to miss

Posted on February 28, 2007. Filed under: 2007 R1 Platform, Tips and Tricks |

There are so much improvements, new features and capabilities that made possible in our new 2007 R1 release, for instances SmartWebResources, file cache server, new datasource control, new UI styles and more. With all these new stuff, sometimes it’s easy to miss certain small features, but in fact very useful ones.
Ok let’s just go to the points. [...]

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[WebGrid] New window pop-up appear behind the current page.

Posted on January 5, 2007. Filed under: Products, Tips and Tricks |

This issue occurred only in IE7.
When “window.open” is called on client side in order to open new window, this pop-up window will not be focused (appeared behind the current page). 
The default behavior is this pop-up will be focused (appear in front of the current page).
The workaround for this issue is developer need to set timeout before called [...]

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Enabling ASP.NET 2.0 in Vista RTM

Posted on November 25, 2006. Filed under: General, Tips and Tricks |

One of the most concerned thing for developers before upgrading to Vista RTM is probably the uncertainty of development features in Vista RTM. Some of mostly asked questions, does the IIS still work the same way it used to be? Is Visual Studio 2005 fully compatible and running as expected? Can I still work with “http projects” [...]

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Sql Server Express Connection Problem

Posted on October 28, 2006. Filed under: General, Tips and Tricks |

While creating some samples for the upcoming 2007 product, I came across to Sql Server Express connection problem as in the following:
Exception information
Exception type: SqlException
Exception message: Unable to open the physical file “D:\SampleSite\App_Data\SqlSample2.mdf”. Operating system error 5: “5(Access is denied).
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file D:\SampleSite\App_Data\SqlSample2.mdf failed. A database with the same [...]

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