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Author Flixon Ltd | Date 14th Oct 2009 at 02:21 | 334 views | Comments 3 comment(s)

Hi all Firstly thank you very much for your interest in Flixon.com We are working very hard to make this site for you.  We would appreciate any feed back you can give us to help make this a success. Our first question to you is what photo size limit would you like to see on th... more
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Author Paul Gawdan | Date 12th Oct 2009 at 12:01 | 239 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

Hi everyone, I'm working of an artistic piece for an exhibition about contemporary society (and promoting equality and diverstity) and I'm looking for models in the West Midlands area, particularly Stourbridge and nearby. I'm not after any Naomi Cambells or David Beckhams, what I really am... more

Author Marc Hussey | Date 06th Aug 2009 at 01:43 | 345 views | Comments 1 comment(s)

How many goals do you think Owen will score for United this season?  Watching this vid makes you think ... what a bargain!  As long as he doesn't get injured, I can see him playing in the World Cup now! :) more

Author Lee Timmins | Date 10th Jul 2009 at 11:21 | 403 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

I recently discovered google dropped support for their soap search api and set about finding an alternative solution.  There was some initial confusion over the name of their new service because although it's called an ajax api, it's simply a rest web service which returns json and can be ... more
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Author Marc Hussey | Date 25th Jun 2009 at 12:50 | 398 views | Comments 5 comment(s)

Hi all, We're almost ready for launch, what do you think of the look of the site.  Do you like it?  Use the poll to cast your vote :)

Author Lee Timmins | Date 12th Aug 2008 at 01:00 | 952 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

I recently come across the above error and never documented my solution. Then the next time i came across it i spent just along trying to fix it. The first thing i did was search google, which pointed my in the direction of http://damianblog.com/2007/02/22/webresource-but-no-emeddedresource/ . Howe... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 28th Apr 2008 at 01:00 | 1176 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

I like many others have been frustrated by the limitations of the DataPager control introducted in v3.5 of the .NET framework. The main problem is that it is tied in with the DataSource controls.  Whilst i did manage to come up with a solution using the OnPagePropertiesChanging event of t... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 27th Feb 2008 at 00:00 | 545 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

This article will quickly show you how to create pdf documents in ASP.Net. To get started go to http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/ and download the iTextSharp library. Now add the library to your web site. We can now begin creating a pdf document. Step 1. Add a new web form to your website. ... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 29th Oct 2007 at 00:00 | 441 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

Recently I ran into a situation where I had to pivot/rotate a table (change rows to columns). This makes it very easy to apply filtering and sorting on data which might have seen impossible to do before. The site I used to help me is found at: http://www.simple-talk.com/communi... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 12th Oct 2007 at 01:00 | 336 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

This article is more a reminder to myself but for a long time i kept getting the error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” whilst running my asp.net websites even though the object was not null. I searched google and found my answer at http://forums.aspfree.com/n... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 26th Sep 2007 at 01:00 | 712 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

i was looking around for an article on how to extend the repeater control to add an empty data template similar to the GridView control. Here is a link to the the article i found. However i discovered that it rendered the header and footer, so i set about creating my own one and come up with the fo... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 10th Sep 2007 at 01:00 | 209 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

I recently ran in to a situation where i had to return every article in my database that was under a particular category (including all articles within the sub categories, sub sub categories and so on). The Categories table relates a sub category to a category by a ParentID. At first i we... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 28th Jul 2007 at 01:00 | 223 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

I know asp.net 2.0 has been out for a while now but i’ve only recently setup this blog and thought i should post an article on something that troubled me for a while as a newcomer to asp.net, i am talking of database fields that allow null values. First i would like to start with how i t... more
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Author Lee Timmins | Date 27th Jul 2007 at 01:00 | 234 views | Comments 0 comment(s)

Hi, i’m pleased to announce the final release of version 1.0 of the site/code generator tool. Click here for more information.
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