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Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application

Dec.09, 2009 in C# Leave a Comment

Over the years I’ve worked on a number of projects where users could customize some aspect of the site. One such application surveyed a group of employees with and then made recommendations on how to best organize the employees into teams. Companies could buy a certain number of surveys and then direct their employees to the site to complete the survey. Before sending their employees to the site, a company could adjust the survey’s look and feel, uploading their own logo and choosing background and foreground colors, among other customizations. A common requirement for such customizable websites is the ability for the user to select one or more colors

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Tags: ajax, article, asp, color, color-picker, customizations, employees, over-the-years, picker-control, read-more-gt, string, user

Using SqlBulkCopy To Perform Efficient Bulk SQL Operations

Oct.21, 2009 in C# Leave a Comment

Over the years I’ve worked on a number of projects that have shared a common requirement – the ability for users to quickly import large amounts of data into a back end SQL Server database. One such project was a web application used by teachers and other staff members. The software was initially purchased for just two schools in the district, but was soon expanded to encompass other schools. Every few months one or two new schools were brought into the fold; every time a new school was added an administrative user would have to create accounts for the new teachers and staff members so that they could sign into the site. Initially, the application offered a web page for the administrator to create new user accounts one at a time, but this interface quickly became tedious and impractical once larger schools with upwards of 100 users were brought online. To allow school administrators to quickly import new users we created a web page from which a user could upload an Excel spreadsheet that contained the one row for every new user; the columns in the spreadsheet mapped to table columns in the database. After uploading this spreadsheet, the application would walk through each row and insert a record into the table. Through this mechanism an administrator could create the 100+ user accounts by first building an Excel spreadsheet (something many of the schools already had on file) and then upload that spreadsheet. This technique may sound familiar – in Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters , author Nannette Thacker walked through building such an interface. While the described approach works well when importing hundreds of records, it starts to seriously slow down when importing thousands or tens of thousands of records

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Tags: application, article, asp.net, between-the-web, create-the-100, microsoft, over-the-years, quickly-import, read-more-gt, schools, server-read, server-the-good, spreadsheet, the-application

ASP.NET Master Page Advice, Tips, and Tricks

Jun.24, 2009 in C# Leave a Comment

Master pages are an important part of any ASP.NET website. In a nutshell, a master page allows the page developer to define a website template, indicating what portions of the template are to remain fixed across pages that use the template and what regions of the template are customizable on a page-by-page basis. Having the site design and layout centralized in one (or more) master pages makes it easy to add new pages to the site that inherit the same look and feel and greatly simplifies changing the site design or adding or removing content that is common to all pages, such as content in the <head> element, footers, and references to CSS and JavaScript files. This article presents advice for using master pages, along with assorted tips and tricks that I’ve picked up over the years in using master pages. Read on to learn more! And if you have additional recommendations and advice on using master pages, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line and I’ll be happy to add your insight to this article. Read More >

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