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How to Display ASP.NET DataGrid Data in Excel

Suppose you have a DataGrid with several columns full of data. The DataGrid contains several pages. You can disable paging and export all the data to Excel using the RenderControl

Great Hackers Make the Worst Developers

ood programmers are what make a software company. Not just good programmers, mind you, they have to be great hackers, rock stars, the best. Great hackers are three times, five

Display Table Information

This script displays all your table names&#151along with their column names, data types, data lengths, and null/not null information in a database. SELECT Sysobjects.name AS TABLE_NAME, syscolumns.Id, syscolumns.name AS COLUMN_NAME,systypes.name

Using the Ajax.NET Framework

he Ajax.NET Framework presents a remarkably easy-to-use framework that will simplify Ajax development and allow developers to spend more time on implementation details and less time on parsing XML. If

Moving and Downsizing

must confess, 2005 was an odd year. Perhaps you remember a column a few months back, describing the wretched flight with four cats and an ill seatmate, moving the household

Developer’s Toolkit

ast month I had some developers over to my office house to do a code review of a project they had developed for a client. During the review one of

Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Torrent of Cool

am the host of “.NET Rocks!”, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.dotnetrocks.com and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks . My co-host Richard Campbell and I interview the movers and

Using DOM 3.0 Validation Techniques with XDK 10g

he DOM 3.0 Validation specification provides for validation of an XML document with a DTD or an XML Schema. The advantage of DOM 3.0 Validation over validation with a validating

The Purpose of the GO Statement

Although GO is not a T-SQL statement, it is often used in T-SQL code and unless you know what it is it can be a mystery. So what is its

Adding an Existing Windows Form to Another Project

Adding an existing Windows Form in VS.Net 2003 means adding two files?for example, a MyForm.cs file with C# code and an XML-based MyForm.resx assembly resource file. In VS.Net 2005, there

Ruby—A Diamond of a Programming Language, Part 2

uby is an object-oriented, metaprogramming language that has garnered a lot of attention in software development circles as of late. Metaprogramming is a means of writing software programs that write

Into the Future

ablet PC and Mobile PC development is very popular today, and will only get more popular and important in the future. For Mobile PC developers, there are significant changes coming

Implementing a Proxy Selector in the Tiger Release of Tiger

Use this code to implement a proxy selector class in the Tiger release of Tiger: import java.net.*;import java.util.*;import java.io.*;public class MyProxySelector extends ProxySelector{ //implement the select method public List select(URI

Dealing with Wildcard Characters in Oracle

Developers generally tend to use characters such as % as a delimiter for storing data in an Oracle database. But because Oracle views the % character as a Wildcard character,

Move a Title-less Form

If you’ve struggled with setting static variables in MouseDown, and MouseUp commands to enable users to drag borderless windows around the screen, here’s a simpler way: If Button = False

Get Started with RFID Development in Java

ybase iAnywhere’s RFID Anywhere is a middleware software platform built on the .NET platform that simplifies every phase of radio frequency identification (RFID) projects, including development, deployment, and ultimately the

An Introduction to RFID Development

adio frequency identification (RFID) is an enabling technology. By itself, RFID doesn’t provide much value, but it does enable companies to develop applications that create value. RFID describes systems that

Running J2ME Applications on Palm-powered Devices

he Palm Treo platform has gained wide appeal as a communications device for mobile professionals, enjoying several launches in the enterprise over the last few months. With the wide use

Know Your Networks

he importance of enabling your software to identify the current network connections and change behavior has never been greater, as more people use laptops, notebooks, and Tablet PCs. With the