Brian O'Connell
Ireland
, joined 10 Dec 2001
Microsoft Certified Applications Developer with 10 years experience developing web based applications using asp, asp.net for a Local Authority in Dublin. Clings to a firm belief that a web application must keep it's 3 most important aspects seperate - presentation (external CSS), structure (XHTML) and behavior (external javascript).
Latest articles
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Drag and Drop in Windows Forms - A Primer
by Brian O'ConnellExamples of how to implement Drag & Drop in Windows Forms including TextBox, TreeView and Dragging a control around a form.
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Windows Forms and Controls
by Brian O'ConnellOne of the first things to learn in VB.net how to use forms, set it's properties and then do the same with controls AND then learn how to do it programatically. Well this article describes all of this in as simple a way possible and demonstrates how you can create the same result using Notepad and the VB.Net compiler.
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Doing without Control Arrays
by Brian O'ConnellMany people ask how implement control arrays in VB.Net. The simple answer is you can't. I've created a vb.net project that demonstrates how to create a series of command buttons based on a user selected amount. It then adds these buttons' click event to an existing click event for a control placed on the form in design time. As far as I can tell this pretty much covers what you might want to do with arrays.
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Creating a Datagrid Class in classic ASP
by Brian O'ConnellWell we've all heard of the wonderful Datagrid in ASP.Net and it's pretty handy to say the least. Then again some of you like me may still be stuck with poor old ASP for the moment. But it's not all bad. With vbscript classes in ASP you can acomplish many things. So I got the urge to try and create my own version of the datagrid.