I continue to learn more and more about developing websites with additional features. I’ve chosen ASP.NET as my preferred language for building web applications for most of my larger corporate clients. A component I use frequently with this dynamic sites are Session Items in ASP.NET.

As I build more sites I start using more and more Session.Item(”ItemName”) identifiers in my code to pass parameters from page to page and data control to data control. There comes a point where you start not remembering exactly how you named something or even what Session Items you’ve stored in the first place.
I’d think it …read more

I’m really trying to develop and rely more on CSS for all of my formatting and colors for pages. I’m still teaching myself more on how to use it for positioning and layout, but I know that will come as I force myself to use it more.
One challenge I came across this morning with Visual Web Developer Express 2008, is that I wish it would show me a preview of ALL the CSS formatting that I have setup in my style sheet.
I’ve got some formatting setup for my H1, H2, H3 tags but I don’t see a preview of …read more

My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was expected. Combing through the code didn’t produce anything that should have resulted in the error of things not loading.
It turns out the error was due to confusion on web user controls that also reference a CSS stylesheet. The rendering engine kind of gets choked on what’s going on. Jeff …read more