The following is a series of posts I made on my old blog regarding control suites. I think it should be an interesting read for anyone evaluating a 3rd party control suite. Be sure to read both posts. March 31st, 2006 The Honeymoon Is Over: My Farewell to 3rd Party Controls Over the last couple of years...
This is a followup to my post on creating a DropDownField for the GridView control. Just a couple of tips for anyone else who might be developing custom columns for the GridView. If you don't care about customizing the GridView, don't bother reading this. Tip #1 - Respect the Page Lifecycle The...
One of the requirements on my current project involves the user defining what a grid of data should look like. We allow a user to create a "definition", which we persist in the database and then we construct a GridView at runtime based on the "definition". This mean that we don't...
James Avery talks about Pete Wright leaving Microsoft I have a ton of respect for Pete and look forward to reading about his new experiences. I know more and more .NET developers who are playing around with RoR in their spare time, I wonder how many will convert over the next couple years? I too wonder...