Al’s Blog

Signature for custom method is
[javascript]
function foo(val, args) {
// test the controls (not sure what val argument is though…?!)
args.IsValid = true | false;
}
[/javascript]

Loading several DataTables into a DataSet using DataRelations when there are invalid constraints causes the error message “Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values….”.
Solution is documented here
[csharp]
foreach (DataTable dt in dataset.Tables)
{
if (dt.HasErrors)
{
Console.WriteLine(”ERRORS IN : ” + dt.TableName);
foreach (DataRow dr in dt.GetErrors())
{
Console.WriteLine(dr.RowError);
}
}
}
[/csharp]

Spent a couple of hours today trying to open a VS.NET web project in a solution. All inherited code so I can’t change things. Web project won’t open - keeps complaining about “file not found”, or “you are trying to open a web project, you must specify the full root path” etc.
Solution was to add [...]

I’ve been musing for a while over how best to arrange the video links at the bottom of my gallery pages. For ages its just been a server control dumping them out as a table, but I thought tonight i’d try and change it to use a multi-column table instead.
This means using a DataList rather [...]