Author Archives: Matt Brunell
The Most Important Key on the Keyboard
The most popular keyboards in the US have 104 keys. Some keyboards have more keys, some have less. Some keyboards have numeric keypads on the right to allow you to type in long sequences of digits faster. Some keyboard have … Continue reading
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Escape Click/Double Click Hell in IE8 and FireFox With jQuery
While developing a control for a web page, I ran into a cross browser problem related to mouse clicks. I offer the following guidance to hopefully help someone experiencing the same problem. The Problem The click and double click events … Continue reading
Binding to joined tables
Many times it is necessary to bind to a datatable which is made up of multiple database tables. Most databases are normalized. In Visual Studio 2005 there was a particular technique to do this. Write your join statements in stored … Continue reading
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How to tell if a path is relative or absolute
There is no function or method in the .NET framework to find this out directly. I had though that Path.IsPathRooted(string) would do the job, but it seems that paths can be both relative, and rooted. The path “C:bin\Debug\app.exe” is perfectly valid. … Continue reading