Category Archives: .net

The .NET Framework is a software framework for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library, and it supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages). The .NET library is available to all the programming languages that .NET supports.

How to show line numbers in Visual Studio 2010

Posted on 08/03/2010 by Eric Fickes

I’ve been using Visual Studio since forever, yet it always takes me a while to remember how to show line numbers.  It’s especially hard to remember after a fresh install of Visual Studio.  Assuming you have it installed and open, … Continue reading →

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Add Eclipse’s Open Resource to Visual Studio 2010

Posted on 06/16/2010 by Eric Fickes

One of my favorite features of the Eclipse IDE is ‘Open Resource’ ( Ctrl + Shift + R  ). If you’re unfamiliar with this, it’s a File Open dialog that let’s you type the name of the file you’re looking … Continue reading →

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Use SQL to insert a label in front of a DataBound list

Posted on 06/09/2010 by Eric Fickes

Here’s a clever little solution I would like to add to the book of ‘get it done’.  While this particular example uses ASP.NET controls, this concept really applies to any language that supports DataBinding to a control. The base concept … Continue reading →

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DataBind a List of custom classes to an ASP:ListBox control

Posted on 04/09/2010 by Eric Fickes

Recently I was scratching my head at this error from the .NET Framework DataBinding: ‘MyApp.vo.customVO’ does not contain a property with the name ‘Name’ I was stumped because my custom VO class did in fact have a public property called … Continue reading →

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