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Podcast Mania

I stumbled across Podcasting last year when I’m browsing on MSDN’s website and came across the DotNetRocks! page. I downloaded few of their episodes and immediately got hook by the show. That’s when I switched to iTunes as my primary music player for downloading a podcast is a breeze on that player.

Over the past months, I accumulated dozens of podcast episodes from different category. From the latest in technology, programming, movies, fashion, music, business, and humor. Here are some of the podcasts I’m currently listening and recommend:

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Dynamically number rows in a SELECT T-SQL statement (SQL Server 2000)

I encountered some TSQL Select problem where I want my result set to have a “number” on the first column. If for example you have a simple select statement

USE Northwind
SELECT      CustomerID
        ,   CompanyName
FROM        Customers
ORDER BY    CustomerID

which outputs

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Running Multiple Version of .Net Framework in IIS 6.0

Different versions of .Net framework can work side by side in a single web server (IIS). But after porting my finished project to the production server (IIS 6.0 running on Windows Server 2003), I got this error message:

I have projects made with .Net framework 1.1 and 1.0 working well side by side with my 2.0 web applications but migrating it to an IIS 6.0 made my app behave that way. What seems to be the problem?

After I searched MSDN and other technical blog, I came across Scott Forsyth’s Weblog article on running multiple versions of ASP.Net. I found out that IIS 6.0 handles running an application differently from it previous counterparts.

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Custom Paging in GridView Control

Introduction

I searched the entire web looking for tutorials about custom paging in GridView control in ASP.Net 2.0. Since GridView is relatively new to ASP.Net, most of my search returned custom paging using DataGrid Control.

To help others who have the same problem as I encountered today, here is the tutorial regarding custom paging in GridView. I hope you’ll have a great time reading my article as I have writing it.

Overview

While DataGrid requires additional coding for it’s paging, GridView control automatically supports paging by setting the PagerSettings property. This allows you to customize the appearance of the pager the the GridView automatically generates for you. You can set the mode of your PagerSetting to the following custom made selections

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Hello World!

A fitting title for my first blog entry. Hope you’ll find this site useful. Enjoy!