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ASP.NET server controls not getting events from child controls? My

ASP.NET server controls not getting events from child controls?
My ASP.NET server/composite controls were not getting events from child controls, but only on the real pages, they worked fine on test ones. It turned out that I had a master page enabled but didn’t have an ID set for it, so it was auto generating it. Just add this to your master pages code file:- protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e) { base.OnInit(e); this.ID = “SomeName”; } And child controls will start working as expected.

XAF ? Distributed Pair Programming and Fast Prototyping
Using XAF recently reminded me of my Smalltalk days in the early ?90s, more on why that was at the end of the post, but for now let?s talk about pair programming. You know about pair programming right? It?s a practice in eXtreme Programming whereby two programmers sit at the same keyboard and work on […]

Two Principles of Conversation By Kevin Cauble
So what s a programmer to do? Short of waiting for MIS managers to become enlightened, not much–except try to work around the problem as best we can.
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Xenon: An Inspired Linux Project
Back in October ‘08, I wrote “5 Things I Wish Linux Had” but never realized that it would inspire the heated debate (Read the comments) that it did. I also didn’t realize that it would inspire an actual operating system. One of my readers commented briefly that he would take on the project. With the inspired words, “Alright then. I’ll make you one,” amongst the fray of negativity, a new distro was born: Xenon. Xenon is the brainchild of British developer and student, Dan Dart. Over the past few months, Dan has gathered steam and inspired other developers and members to join the effort–most…

The Morning Brew #382
Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation […]