There are business scenarios that need to keep two separate TreeView controls synced, one of them can be content comparison. I was surprised that creating a form with two TreeView controls with synchronised Expand/Collapse and Scroll actions cannot be done without P/Invoke. Here a complete solution. This article does not …
Today i finally managed to convince my VS 2005 to create a .NET 3.0 projects. I not exactly sure what combinations of install/uninstall did the trick… here are extensions that I suspect should be enough: Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit for Windows Vista™ and .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components Visual …
I think anyone will agree that UI testing is painful, especially when the UI framework is closely coupled, there are no interfaces for UI widgets and controls. Every once for a while I try to improve my UI architecture to enable automatic testing with NUnit and one of mocking frameworks. …
I had to deploy some king of Knowledge Base web application, my first choice was a Wiki for it’s easy page creation and edition. There is one major drawback, Wiki was originally designed to be editable any and all users. A drawback that can be overcome by proper configuration.
Another „it’s not a bug it’s a feature” king a problem 😉 , a least it’s a not a big deal one… and easy to work-around.
Here’s a link worth saving: Silk Icons, it’s a very nice set of icons published on Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Thx Kuba for this link. By default I use VS Image Library ;), and from time to time I look for icon set that is free (or at least …
It always pisses me off when VS sets custom properties of UserControl to null, at design time. Properties that should not be null, that in turn breaks design view of my Custom Controls. It you do not put any assertions on property set, you’ll get all-informative „Null reference exception”. Now …
I do this every few months and can never remeber what is to be do for this to work. I always spend few minutes looking through code that does merging and sets apprioprate values in among other design-time settings… so here it is, for me to rember. Set MainMenu strip …
A while ago, my ASP.NET 2.0 application seemed to ignore /configuration/system.web/authorization setting and authorised everyone to have access, while it should not. Application was deployed on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003 Standard SP), with customised application pool with domain user as app pool identity. Impersonalization was off. What was strange during …
A precompiled ASP.NET 2.0 application (with web services) running in custom domain service account sandbox on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003 Standard SP1). A service account is in IIS_WPG group so everything concerning required rights should be covered. When a request comes form a browser it works OK, cause the application …
