If you ever want to see a list of keys in your current database or see some of their properties (e.g. the encryption alogorithm used), just use the two statements below to list your symmetric and asymmetric keys from the system catalog views: SELECT * FROM sys.symmetric_keys; SELECT * FROM sys.asymmetric_keys;
I’ve received several questions concerning my article on 4GuysFromRolla on “Customizing the CreateUserWizard Control“, which center around the same problem. So, I thought I would just put my solution here, in case anyone else was confused about the same thing as well. The question concerns, the way in which my example asks for the user [...]
I’m obviously shamelessly stealing the title from one of my favorite software related articles, The Iceberg Secret, Revealed¬ù by Joel Spolsky. In a nutshell, Joel explains how important a good UI is, how non-programmers view them, and ultimately he hands out some advice on how to deal with that. In this article, I wanted to [...]
As some of you may have noticed, my site was down for 3-4 days. The reason, was that, the server I was hosting on at Virtuoso Net Solutions was hacked. What’s more is that the company cliams all the backups were compromised as well. Now I don’t know about you, but I think you should [...]
Well, I have embarked on yet another pet project. This time it is with the help of Jiang and Siqing. We have created and launched Shanghai Blog. It is basically a community blog for the city of Shanghai in China. So, if you are not interested in Shanghai and/or your not from Shanghai, then this [...]
The article in which I was approved to write for the website 4GuysFromRolla, has been posted live and can be found here: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/062106-1.aspx
In the beta releases of ASP .Net 2.0, one could simply set the Visible attribute to False on a BoundField column in a GridView control, and then retrieve the value of the BoundFields selected row by accessing the SelectedValue attribute of the GridView like so (maybe in the SelectedIndexChanged event): string SelectedRowValue = GridView1.SelectedRow.Cells[0].Text; But, [...]
Just a quick note to say, I was approved to write an article for 4GuysFromRolla. I used that website a lot for reference material and tutorials when I first was learning ASP .Net. The article is basically an easy introduction into AJAX using Microsoft’s Atlas framework and ASP .Net 2.0. Hopefully after the review process [...]
Recently I’ve been diving into ASP .Net 2.0 pretty heavily and I wanted to share a few helpful articles I have come across and have found invaluable working on an ongoing personal project (shhhh it’s a secret). ScottGu “Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0“ “Always set [...]
I would like to share a talk I had with one of my close friends on our unhappiness with our careers or at least for me the last several jobs I have had. The conversation had to do with the parallels between construction work and computer science. The jist of it is thus: Programmers = [...]