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• Introducing the American Academies of Sports Practitioners!

  It's been 9 months in the making and the American Academies of Sports Practitioners (AASP) is finally live! I was given the logo you see above and I built the entire site around it, mostly from scratch. I implemented a forum system using YetAnotherForum... Posted Jan 04 2009, 03:57 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Software, SQL, ASP.NET, Hosting, LINQ, AASP

• ASP.NET Site Hangs Forever When Accessing Database via LINQ to SQL

  I finally published a project of mine to some hosting I purchased from DiscountASP.NET. I'm very pleased with their service and minus the inability to contact them by phone, I prefer them over GoDaddy. So after purchasing all the Add-Ons I needed... Posted Jan 04 2009, 02:41 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Software, SQL, ASP.NET, Hosting, LINQ

• Working with YAF Source Code from SVN Repository

  I've been working with YetAnotherForum for a while now. It's an open-source .NET forum control written in C#, and it's great software. I've made some contributions here and there with a smiley pak , an avatar collection , and helping others... Posted Dec 06 2008, 10:03 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Software, SQL, Visual, ASP.NET, Forum, YAF, SVN, Source, Studio, Open

• ASP.NET Horizontal Menu Items Won't Center in FireFox

  This took entirely too long to figure out. Hopefully this will help someone else fix it more quickly. If you have a horizontal ASP.NET menu where all of the buttons are centered and looking great in IE, but will remain left-aligned in FireFox no matter... Posted Nov 17 2008, 02:14 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: IE, Software, FireFox, CSS, ASP.NET, Cross Browser

• Integrate YetAnotherForum With Your .NET Site From Source

  For those who haven't heard of YetAnotherForum , it's an open-source webcontrol that gives you all of the functionality you would expect in a modern forum. Since it's a webcontrol, you can use it as a stand-alone site or you can incorporate... Posted Oct 27 2008, 08:20 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Software, ASP.NET, 3.5, .NET, Forum, YetAnotherForum, YAF

• ASP.NET Menu Control Problem in Safari and Chrome

  The ASP.NET Menu controls in my application display correctly in all browsers but Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. After researching the problem this afternoon, I'm documenting the fix I used. ASP.NET Menu Control Renders Correctly in IE... Posted Oct 04 2008, 03:25 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Error, ASP.NET, Cross Browser

• ASP.NET Disable Submit Button OnClick

  Add the following line on Page_Load. This will disable btnSubmit , change the text of the button, and then continue on with the server side btnSubmit_OnClick event handler. btnSubmit .Attributes.Add("onclick", "this.value=\"Processing... Posted Oct 03 2008, 04:05 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, C, Sharp

• ASP.NET GridView DetailView No Row Selected Error

  A gridview and a detailview control paired up make a great way to browse data. Select a row from the gridview and the details appear in the detail view control. If you are experiencing this error... " Operator '==' incompatible with operand... Posted Sep 14 2008, 08:36 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Error, ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Membership ValidateUser Always Returns False

  I was creating a page where a user must enter his password before accessing sensitive account information. The first couple passes everything was running smoothly, but after testing for a few minutes ValidateUser would fail every time. Since I was testing... Posted Aug 30 2008, 01:08 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Software, ASP.NET, C#

• Free ASP.NET Tools

  I just found a great resource and I wanted to preserve the link for future reference. I'll be downloading and testing the ASP.NET Membership Control tonight and I might try out the CAPTCHA some other time. http://peterkellner.net/download-manager... Posted Aug 04 2008, 06:10 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Code, ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Change Hashed Password

  This is a really simple thing, but I actually had to look it up. After a few minutes of playing around with various GetPassword(), ChangePassword() and EnablePasswordRetrieval settings, I gave up and found the answer online. MembershipUser user = Membership... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:42 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Membership, ASP.NET

• Publish a .NET 3.5 Website to Windows Server 2008 IIS 7

  Install the Web Server Role In Role Services, select ASP.NET and continue. Install the .NET 3.5 Framework On your webserver, install the .NET 3.5 framework . Publish Your Application In Visual Studio, publish your web project to a local folder, like on... Posted Jun 18 2008, 07:42 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 7, Server, Windows, IIS, Software, SQL, 2008, ASP.NET, 3.5, .NET

• ASP.NET Execute JavaScript on Page Load

  To link to an external Test.js file: <script src="/_Scripts/Test.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script> Or to insert the script right into that page: <script type="text/javascript"... Posted Jun 15 2008, 01:42 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: JavaScript, ASP.NET

• Regular Expressions in ASP.NET

  I'm using the RegularExpressionValidator all over the place on my web forms to validate data before allowing it through. The validator is a great little tool. Here is a link to a great MSDN article on the subject, and a list of the regex combinations... Posted May 30 2008, 03:02 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET, Regular Expressions, RegEx

• Different Web.config for Each Environment

  I learned this technique from a blog post by Scott Hanselman . This will enable you to create multiple web.config files for each of your environments (DEV, STG, PROD, etc) and build using the correct one when you choose the appropriate configuration manager... Posted May 04 2008, 11:04 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Config, ASP.NET