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private void dgNumbers_ItemDataBound(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.EditItem)
{
DropDownList drpList = (DropDownList)e.Item.FindControl("drpStyleEdit");
drpList.Items.FindByText(((BE.ProgrammeStyle)e.Item.DataItem).Description).Selected = true;
}
}

To reduce page bloat, we move view state to session state, rather than store it in hidden fields. This is done by overriding System.Web.UI.Page’s LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() and SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium() methods.

protected override object LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium()
{
return Session["__ViewState"];
}

protected override void SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium(object state)
{
Session["__ViewState"] = state;
}

Signature for custom method is

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

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

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);
}
}
}

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 [...]