http://www.tyronedavisjr.com HTML | CSS | JavaScript | ASP.NET | PHP | C# | Java | VB.NET | MS SQL | MySQL | Flash Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:53:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   What is this? It’s a Basic Stamp Microcontroller board that is manufactured by Parallax, Inc.  Some of you may not know; but I originally got started with Programming as a Electronics Engineering student in college. Electronics was my first love.  However, when ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/06/28/what-i-have-been-up-to-lately/ Some asked me a question the other day about an issue they were experiencing with pre-loading a password text box with some initial text. Here is what their code looked like: ASPX <asp:TextBox id="txtPassword" runat="server" TextMode="Password" /> .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/05/23/aspnet-and-password-textbox-with-initial-value/ Surprisingly, it's been quite pleasant.  I have tried Remote Debugging with VS.NET 2003, and I didn't have much luck with it. However, last week there was a scenario where I desperately needed it and given that we have upgraded to VS 2008, I thought I should give it another try. ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/04/14/my-experience-with-visual-studio-2008-remote-debugging/ So, based on my last post you could probably tell that I've been quite busy lately. It's been over 2 months now and Keira is doing wonderful. She just got her shots yesterday and now we could start taking her out a few places. Having said that, I have plans ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/03/22/im-back/ Name: Keira Cheyenne Davis Born:  1/18/2008 @ 10:42am Size:   4lbs. 10oz. 18 in. Wow! Isn't she beautiful! http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/01/20/we-interrupt-your-regular-schedule-programming-to-introduce/ Wow!  I will be using ( no pun intended ) this feature quite often!     I've seen some VS macros that currently do this in VS 2005 and I think Visual Studio IDE enhancement tools like Resharper, has this feature already baked into ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/01/15/new-feature-organize-using-statements-with-vs-2008/ I recently was given the opportunity to comment on a blog post which discussed a method of using Strongly-Types Session Properties with ASP.NET. After reading it, I noticed that the implementation was quite similar to something I have been using for months now. I was able to provide some feedback ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/01/09/strongly-typed-session-properties-in-aspnet/ Finally! Someone found a fix and root cause for this nagging bug I've been encountering with VS2008. You can find everything you need here. Thanks Rick!  Until next time...   Happy Coding! http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2008/01/05/ctrl-s-in-webconfig-in-visual-studio-2008-closes-webconfig-file/ A few years ago a project that I was working on required me to loop through a result set from a select statement.  Most examples that I saw used database cursors. However, I came across an old article that shows an alternative method for doing this.  Let's say we have ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2007/12/12/tsql-looping-through-a-result-set-without-using-database-cursor/ I have been using the .NET Framework heavily since 2002, and sometimes I have to sit back an marvel at a good, well-designed the API. I say this because just today I had to write some code to write to the file system, and it's remarkable how simple it is ... http://www.tyronedavisjr.com/index.php/2007/12/11/appreciating-a-good-well-designed-api/