April 20, 2005

Use Ctrl+E+C to comment selected text in web.config or the codebehind file. Use Ctrl+E+U to uncomment selected text in web.config or the codebehind file. Note: Neither key is case sensitive. They work only in the Visual Studio 2005 beta IDE.

This tip provides a way to append the items on a dropdown menu?even when the control is binded with the datasource. Assume that the dropdown menu will be showing a list of employees. Binding with the datasource will fetch the employees names, but what if you want to set the

Sick of initializing and assigning values to the base class’s data members? Absolve yourself of this responsibility by overloading the copy constructor and the assignment operator in the derived class. As soon as the compiler discovers you’ve done this, it stops the implicit invocation of the base class’s default copy

Suppose you need to make a program to send emails. However, you need the emails to contain attachments, the names of which will be generated when the attachment file has been saved, and which will contain the date and time the file was saved. Private Sub cmd_submit_Click() ‘Dim the strings

Many applications require some of their attributes to be initialized much before the application is made available to the user or before it can process a request. Suppose you’ve got an application with a new version that needs to be present across the application?but it needs to be initialized beforehand.