Richard's Rant

Links for Sunday 20 April 2008

So, how slack have I been for the last few weeks?

Well, not really. I have been scrambling to finish my part of a project before I leave the Unisys fold. Yes, I have finally made a decision and am leaving Unisys for a change of direction. After 8 1/2 years, it is feeling a little bit scary. But this is a good thing.

So, here are my links for the day:

• A step by step guide to using the MVC framework
• Derik Whittaker has an article on how to set up a single config file for multiple developers
• Vikram Lakhotia has an article on handling drop down lists in a gridview and another one about Manually Sorting and Paging a Gridview
• K. Scott Allen has an article on a Gentle Introduction to Mocking
• Al Pascual has an intesting idea called Geo Twitter
• On MVolo's blog the IIS Blog's site, there is an article on Creating Portable ASP.NET applications
• Found an article on ASP.NET debugging with an explanation of a debugger command called clientconns

So there we have it for the day. Hopefully the next few weeks will be a bit more productive for me. After that, I think that I will go dark for a month or so as I settle into the new role, then I should pick this up again.

So for all of you out there who are hanging on my every word: hang in there. I will be back ;)

Concatenating Two Databinding Expressions in ASP.NET

I came across this problem the other day, and I could not find an answer from google (not that that means anything)

Anyway, I found a solution - below is an example

CommandArgument='<%# String.Concat(Eval("EQUIP_KEY"), "|", Eval("EQUIP_ID"))%>'

Hope that helps someone