If you’ve tried to create a widget (custom control) in Sitefinity (quick how to here ) you will have noticed…
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How to: Update XSD queries
Working with an .XSD (XML schema file) in Visual Studio may be easy at first but, it might give you…
Basics: Page/Control Lifecycle (ASP.NET)
Embarrassing as it may be, I need to keep a note of the lifecycle of pages and controls cause, still,…
How to: Add custom Web User Controls to SiteFinity as widgets
I started working with Sitefinity lately. An interesting CMS product that helps achieve a lot of functionality right out of…
How to: Get random numbers (Random() & RNGCryptoServiceProvider())
For use with simple, everyday projects where you might need a simple random number, Random() should be enough. The only…
How to: Get the name of a SharePoint feature from its GUID
There’s a really easy way to get the name of a feature that SharePoint requests from its provided GUID. For…
How to: Sort and Reverse a DataTable
In order to sort/order the rows of a DataTable, we need to pass them through to an array of DataRow…
How to: Get the currently logged on user’s Username and ID (ASP.NET – v:3.5+)
There’s very easy and practical way to deal with the need to get a user’s Username and ID when programming…
Basics: Dictionary (Create, sort + comparison with Hashtable)
Dictionaries are my favourite structure to populate drop down lists. A method that returns a Dictionary will in fact return…
How to: Solve the “empty Ajax Update Panel” predicament; or, why do controls that live in an UpdatePanel always display last.
A funny thing happens if you’re using an empty Ajax Update Panel on your page/control definition in order to programmatically…