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Comment on How to: Alternate row color with the ASP.NET Repeater control by Russell

Russell — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:49:07 +0000

Thank you for this post, I agree code is more maintainable when written once, and thus did not like the idea of using the tag.

I would suggest in most cases it is better not to have logic directly in the page. Inline code is generally harder to maintain. For example, you could create a base class and have a generic property, eg: which will return the correct alternate string.

Comment on How to: Alternate row color with the ASP.NET Repeater control by Brandon Wittwer

Brandon Wittwer — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:33:58 +0000

wouldnt this be more efficient?

Dim altRow As Boolean = False
Private Function GetRowColor() As String
Try
Return If(altRow = False, “#fff”, “#FCF3B2″)
Finally
altRow = Not altRow
End Try
End Function

Comment on How to: Download a file from the Internet with C# by Mahdi

Mahdi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:55:52 +0000

Hello
I’m trying to create a Downloader control for ASP.Net Ajax. Using the WebClient.DownloadFileAsync() requires you to write Async=”true” in your directive and it’s slightly unpleasant.
On the other hand, for an unknown reason -to me- the AJAX Timer won’t simply work! The request goes to the server, Download will start asynchronously and the events for ProgressChange and DownloadComplete will fire really nice on the server, but the page never gets back to the client before the file is downloaded and therefore thre will be no Timer_Tick()s!

Do you suggest anything?

Comment on Testing on different machines by Riju

Riju — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:13:24 +0000

Thanks for these tutorials…It really helps me…I am a Newbie to ASP.Net an C# too.
I have book Marked you,..Thanks again…and keep up the good work..

Comment on How to: Alternate row color with the ASP.NET Repeater control by Jason Norris

Jason Norris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:38:52 +0000

Looks like it ate part of my comment because of angle braces, the important part is, instead of a call to the method in the code behind GetRowColor(), you can use:

Container.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem ? “silver” : “#fff”

Comment on How to: Alternate row color with the ASP.NET Repeater control by Jason Norris

Jason Norris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:36:20 +0000

Checking the Container.ItemType will save you needing a method in the code behind to do this.

Comment on Sorting items in a generic List by Ron L.

Ron L. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:52:17 +0000

Great article, Very clear and concise as compared to many others I’ve read. Thank you.

I started writing on here to ask you a question bcz I thought I could not get this to work, but turns out I DID! THANKS, THIS IS GREAT!

My only other question, is my “Person” object is an interface, instead of a class. So, I could not use the first method of applying the IComparable to the class/interface? I guess the delegate method is the only way to do this?

I found someone wrote a generic, delegate sort class. I guess that might work so that you don’t have to rewrite all over again?

THANKS AGAIN, I AM STOKED! -Ron

Comment on New articles on Reflection by Dykam

Dykam — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:48:49 +0000

I’ll stick with Mono.Cecil. I find that intuitive, and it will run on Linux, while reflection is not completely ported.

Comment on New articles on Reflection by admin

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:54:21 +0000

Dykam, just read the articles linked from this blog post, they should get you started pretty good. I actually find .NET Reflection pretty intuitive, and extremely powerful

Comment on New articles on Reflection by Dykam

Dykam — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:19:27 +0000

Maybe you should look into Mono’s way of reflection. Search for the Mono.Cecil dll, and try them. They are very intuitive, while I tried the dotNet reflection for a week, and finaly gave up because I didn’t know how to use it.

I think you’ll know you can use Mono.Cecil independent of the Mono framework.