If you’ve a piece of code similar to this one, and try to use the control inside an UpdatePanel then you might be surprised to see that triggering that event will in fact do a complete PostBack of the page (read Refresh-like-Postback): public override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) { Response.Write(“Button”, Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(this, “onclick”)); } The reason is […]
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ASP.Net AJAX Extensions, GetPostBackEventReference And Custom Controls
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Fedora 8 and the Sudo command
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Today I was checking out the latest mono from subversion and something funny was happening, I wasn’t able to install the builds if I used sudo make install, the error I was getting was a bit different from package to package but always looked something like: /usr/local/bin/gacutil /i monodoc.dll /f /package monodoc /gacdir /usr/local/lib /root […]
New Laptop – HP dv6799ep – (Near) Perfect Linux Compability
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008I’ve a new laptop, an HP dv6799ep (dv6700 series special edition). The reason I choose this exact version was the 4GB of RAM and the Intel 9300 (dual core, 2.5GHz, FSB 800MHz and 6MB cache) which is a great combination to develop on the road and use virtualization . My main concern with a new […]
How To: Random DateTime(s)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I had a small database project that needed about a million records to stress test its performance and the front office application. For some reason, working with DateTime in C# is not always straightforward, and you might need some research and trial & errors until you can get something as simple as random date/time generation […]