We had the need to forward meeting notices to mobile devices. Since we use Goldmine as our CRM all entries are simply database entries which are rendered by the application. The solution was to create a trigger that sends out an email after insert. We explored DBMail, but you don’ really have much control over [...]
Posts Tagged ‘C#’
ASP.NET MVC: Using Ajax, Json and PartialViews
24 May , 2010
While working on a new ASP.NET MVC project, I had a simple objective: add a new record and refresh my View. After sifting through several sites I found several resources that lead me to accomplish my goal. I’ve compiled my result into a new sample MVC Application that I created in Visual Studio that you [...]
Using .NET 3.5 List.Distinct()
28 Apr , 2010
When I was working on a project today, I had a List of objects where I needed to grab objects that had a distinct property value (i.e. where MyObject.MyID is distinct).
I discovered the Distinct() method on the List and I had never used it before so I wasn’t sure of the syntax. After further review, I learned you can use the IEqualityComparer interface to specify how to determine if the object is distinct.
Using .NET 3.5 and Reflection to help with sorting a List
1 Apr , 2010
The other day I was looking to be able to sort a list of products (List<Product>). I was binding that list to a ListView and the client wanted to be able to sort the Products by Name (Z-A & A-Z) and by Price (Low-High and High-Low). I initially had something like this: public class SortProductsByPrice [...]
Updating a .NET Page in Real-Time Using jQuery and AJAX
29 Oct , 2009
Here’s a problem I bet you’ve run into before. You have a long-running function on one of your .NET pages and you want to provide real-time feedback to the user while they’re waiting on the function to complete (by function, I mean a method or a set of methods in the code-behind). So you put [...]