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• Any regrets on VS 2008 Standard Edition?

  I'm upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 (I have both an Academic version and an Enterprise version via my employer). I'm trying to decide between Standard and Professional, and whether to get an Upgrade or a whole new copy. Comparison Chart - When I searched the ASP.NET forum archives I found lots of old links supposedly to comparisons between Standard and Professional that didn't seem to have such comparisons. Maybe MFST changed the page contents since those postings, but here's a

  Posted to Visual Studio 2008 (Forum) by plnelson on 6/12/2009
  Filed under: Upgrade, Professional, Standard

• Re: ASP.NET Best Practice

  [quote user="agolden"] You questioned whether the rendered HTML is part of the spec versus an implementation detail. I would argue the control’s internal logic and how it renders is an implementation detail, but the HTML that it render really isn’t (coming from a web development background – it’s the end goal). I don’t know of an actual “spec” (although it may exist somewhere), nor could a find a good reference for HTML generated for each webcontrol when searching online (I had actually

  Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by plnelson on 4/16/2009

• Re: ASP.NET Best Practice

  [quote user="agolden"] Once you get past very basic pages you can’t get very far without really understanding the HTML that’s generated. You need that understanding to effectively use CSS to style a page. You need that understanding to manipulate the page elements with javascript (and along those lines, working with AJAX). It’s also unlikely that you’ll get into any moderately complex project and not want or need to develop custom server controls, and in that case you’ll probably be writing

  Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by plnelson on 4/14/2009

• Re: ASP.NET Best Practice

  [quote user="Danny117"] [quote user="plnelson"]Does Microsoft commit to a particular implementation that we can code to? [/quote] Code to a framework. MSFT provides dot net. JAVA has J2EE etc... [/quote] Fine, so how do you determine what types of CSS styling may be applied to a web control? I've been told on other forums that many programmers look at the rendered HTML. To me that's the same as looking at the assembly-code generated by the compiler instead of coding to

  Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by plnelson on 4/14/2009

• ASP.NET Best Practice

  On another forum I was asking where the styling capabilities of am ASP.NET web control were documented and was essentially told that they weren't so basically I should "read the source, Luke", meaning study the rendered HTML and code to that. I'm a bit of an ASP.NET newbie but coming from a C++ background that seems like reading the assembly code that gets generated by the compiler and coding to take advantage of some discovery I made that way. It might work great until someone

  Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by plnelson on 4/13/2009

• Re: DropDownList Item Height?

  [quote user="danielszabo1981"]i completely feel your pain. long have i hoped for greater dropdownlist flexibility in IE, but alas, nothing. ... Good luck![/quote] Thanks! I'm not having any better luck in Firefox than IE. So what about the other part of my question? - I'm still somewhat of an ASP.NET newbie - how do ASP.NET programmers find out definitively what the styling capabilities and limitations of a control are? Is it documented anywhere or does everyone just keep trying

  Posted to Web Forms (Forum) by plnelson on 4/13/2009

• Re: DropDownList Item Height?

  Any chance we can get a tie-breaker on this? We have one poster saying it can't be done period. We have another poster saying it CAN be done but only on certain browsers, and when I tried his suggestion it didn't work, and he didn't follow-up. This is for an embedded app so we DO have control over which browser we use, provided it is a major, supported one. So even if it only worked on some browsers that would be OK. In general, is there a comprehensive list somewhere of which web server

  Posted to Web Forms (Forum) by plnelson on 4/11/2009

• Re: DropDownList Item Height?

  [quote user="Mayursinh"] .big { height: 100px; } <asp:DropDownList ID="ddl1" runat="server" CssClass="big" /> it will work in chrome and mozilla firefox ........ IE 7 not supported,,..... and no idea about IE8.......... [/quote] No that doesn't seem to work. It only seems to set the height of the head, not the items. Here's a screenshot from IE8 ( not running in IE7 mode) with the style applied to the second DropDownList. I get the same result

  Posted to Web Forms (Forum) by plnelson on 4/10/2009

• DropDownList Item Height?

  In an ASP.NET DropDownList how do I set the height of the individual items without changing the font size? This is for a touch-screen app so I want to make the target bigger to accomodate fatter fingers but I don't want to change the font size because I want to keep it consistent with the rest of the app. If I set the height of the control using Height or .Style it only affects the height of the head of the control - the items don't seem to inherit that height (why?)

  Posted to Web Forms (Forum) by plnelson on 4/10/2009
  Filed under: DropDownList, Item Height

• Re: Many-to-Many Question

  [quote user="SGWellens"] [quote user="plnelson"]That's a relief - thank you! [/quote] In addition to SQL, you also have be competent in HTML, Asp.Net, CSS, XML, Security, State Management and a whole lot more.... [/quote] True, but SQL database design is a professional specialty in itself. So one question is really HOW competent? Every company I've worked at over the last 15 years had dedicated SQL database designers who were paid more than us software engineers and who

  Posted to SQL Server, SQL Server Express, and SqlDataSource Control (Forum) by plnelson on 4/4/2009