The recent thread in ASP.NET forums is the primary reason for this blog post.

I want to show how error messages from the SQL Server were handled in our web pages. The site I was working on had most of the functionality developed by the previous developer. Unfortunately, most pages didn't use a separation of layers and used SQLDataSource for data manipulations.

The sample I want to show was called from InsertPerson.aspx page. For inserting a person we used the stored procedure I showed in my previous blog

I had a bit of frustration lately when dealing with jQuery UI's slider widget, more specifically when trying to deal with many on the same page. I wanted to follow the same pattern shown in the example for snap to increments where I have a div for the slider, and the value is actually set to a text input for easy form submission. The individual elements look something like this:

I have been using Chrome for over a year now and have been very happy with it. Yesterday version 5 was released, you can get it here: http://www.google.com/chrome

I decided to look at some stats for this site and compared April of this year to April of last year. The image below has this information.

As you can see FireFox lost about 10% while Chrome gained 9% and Safari gained almost 1%. So wha...

Over the past couple of years, we've been moving from a "custom-developed" (read: terrible) reporting system towards SSRS-type reports. We do this using the ASP.net client reports, but with a twist. We had a lot of problems using the built in data-binding, especially when making schema changes (which are frequent as we try to move the database to a more sane design). In order to get around these problems, we created a report definition class that encapsulates the stored procedure used to get the report data, the parameters, and anything else we need to display on the report viewer page. ...

Long ago I came across OldSchoolDotNet's Silverlight Sudoku client.

It's a great interface to a classic brain game. I especially enjoy the "Hard" difficulty level as it is pretty consistently solvable with out reverting to guessing. The "Expert" level though requires you to guess. And as a logic guy, I hate guessing.

Not quite so long ago, in the Programmer's Puzzles forum, we had a "Follow the Clues" challenge. I approached t...