Sri Lanka .NET Forum

Gridview Linkbutton Postback Problem

jinath Blog — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:16 GMT

Some of the Devs in my team had a problem with linkbuttons inside a Gridview template field. When they clicked on the linkbutton it didn’t postback. I thought it’s an application wide issue, but in some pages it worked. Then it came into my mind the issue is coz of the validation controls in some [...]...(read more)

Ajax ComboBox Result List Position Problem

jinath Blog — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:30:14 GMT

If you use the Ajax control toolkit’s ComboBox control inside a DIV element which It’s position set as relative, then the result list of the ComboBox will come in an odd location. Normally at the bottom of the parent div. This happen because of the parent div position and the ComboBox’s list also showing based [...]...(read more)

Guitar Time.. no .NET in this post

jinath Blog — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:51:51 GMT

Few months back I started my guitar lessons, but had to stop due to other work… Now again I’m planning to start it from next month.. And badly want to practice Peaceful Easy Feeling by Eagles… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44A9iDQNrss I know here strumming is the hard part in this…...(read more)

Want The Look of VS 2010 in VS 2012

jinath Blog — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:00:49 GMT

If you don’t like the color and icons in Visual Studio 2012 and need the colors and icons of VS 2012, here are two tools that enable you to do that. So far I only changed the colors theme to VS 2010 default blue. And hope I can cope with the icons. Visual Studio 2012 [...]...(read more)

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell from O’Reilly

jinath Blog — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:04:16 GMT

Even though C# 4.0 was there for quite some time now.. Recently I had a chance to go through this O’Reilly’s C# 4.0 in a Nutshell book.Its was worth reading. There were lot of thing that I didn’t know even I worked with C# 4.0 for years now.I mostly went through the new things in [...]...(read more)

The Virtual ASP.NET Conference

jinath Blog — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:17:43 GMT

go and join for the The Virtual ASP.NET Conference on july 17th and 18th for free. http://www.aspconf.net/...(read more)

Visual Studio 2012 RC

jinath Blog — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:35:37 GMT

Yes now you can download the Visual Studio 2012 RC fromhttp://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads...(read more)

All New Bing

jinath Blog — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:50:40 GMT

The new Bing features a three-column display including a sidebar that incorporates the user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts to provide more relevant search results based on their social networks. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-new-version-of-bing-just-went-live-for-everyone-in-the-us-2012-6#ixzz1wYc557jD...(read more)

Middle East & Africa Windows Phone Camp ONLINE!

jinath Blog — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:38:54 GMT

Broadcasting live on MAY 25th from Istanbul, Turkey (in English) is the Middle East & Africa Windows Phone Camp! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msgulfcommunity/archive/2012/05/22/middle-east-amp-africa-windows-phone-camp-online.aspx...(read more)

Reset Identity Column without Truncating the Table

jinath Blog — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:56:54 GMT

Quick tip if you want to reset identity column without truncating the table (to truncate the table you need to remove foreign constrains) run DBCC CHECKIDENT (tablename, reseed, 0)...(read more)

Adding TemplateField dynamically with entityframework ObjectSet

jinath Blog — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:25:46 GMT

Lets say you need to add itemtemplate dynamically to your gridview and also wants to data bind the sub class which loads with your main class. Ex:- Person.Car.Type If you bind list of person as the data source, in the data binding event of the control you can simply call DataBinder.Eval(container.DataItem, “myCar.type”); This is a [...]...(read more)

customize the win 7 logon screen background

jinath Blog — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:35:10 GMT

I found a nice app that customize the win 7 logon screen background. http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/...(read more)

Page_LoadComplete not calling from User Control

jinath Blog — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:22:48 GMT

If you add Page_LoadComplete method to a user control it’s not getting called like Page_load or Page_init. For this what you can do is call the main page’s Page_LoadComplete event from user control. Add an event handler for LoadComplete event in the user control’s page init protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.Page.LoadComplete += [...]...(read more)

ModalPopupExtender, User Control And Button PostBack

jinath Blog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:59 GMT

I spent some time today to figure out why, a button on a page didn’t not postback after clicking on it. The scenario is like this, I have a user control and it’s been calling from the ModalPopupExtender based on some logic, but not always. And I have another button for some other function in [...]...(read more)

New job and MVP for 8th consecutive time

jinath Blog — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:47:41 GMT

First if all happy new year to all.. 2011 was an eventful year. Got married and moved to Dubai .last December I moved to a new job. after working as a lead.Net developer for veripark for almost 1year then I joined with dominateRFID as a Software Development Manager. Looking forward to the challenge and fun [...]...(read more)

Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive – Page Rendering Error

jinath Blog — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:38:42 GMT

In my web project for all the pagers I was inheriting from base page. Then I realize that in VS it gives and error in HTML design mode saying “Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive.” The issue was that [...]...(read more)

Why Employees Leave Organizations

jinath Blog — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:01:34 GMT

A nice blog post .. worth reading http://masterdno.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/why-employees-leave-organizations-by-azim-premji-ceo-%e2%80%93-wipro/...(read more)

smtp4dev

jinath Blog — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:10:01 GMT

I’m sure that most of the devs out there have faced this issue. Have you ever wanted to test SMTP mail sending logic on dev machine and wanted to use a SMTP server? smtp4dev will give you a dummy SMTP server in order to test your mail sending logic. This will listen on port 25 [...]...(read more)

windows 8 developer preview

jinath Blog — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:54:22 GMT

I just installed windows 8 developer preview. Well what can I say? I think this will be the best Microsoft OS to date. Really fast and superb user experience. and IE 10 seems to be cool. so now its time to get hands on VS 11 develope preview and build apps for windows …. http://www.buildwindows.com/ If [...]...(read more)

Apple and Google in the buzz ..is Microsoft sleeping?

jinath Blog — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:40:44 GMT

Apple and Google in the buzz ..is Microsoft sleeping? ..Well, I think after reading some of the things around the web something cool going to come out soon. I think it will be something to do with Facebook, Twitter and may be with G+ but definitely not another social site.. But who knows. Will it be [...]...(read more)

Microsoft’s Middleware and BizTalk Server Roadmap

jinath Blog — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:06:05 GMT

While glancing through the sessions on 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, I saw there is a session called The Future of Middleware and the BizTalk Roadmap. It was talking about how the public and private cloud going to come into the picture and the role of next versions of AppFabric. Here is a like to [...]...(read more)

How to work properly with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 – Offline mode?

inZeek — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:55:20 GMT

AS Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 does support offline mode, lot of developers are willing go offline mode and continue their work (Ex: Working from home, etc.) Simply offline mode means TFS 2010 goes offline (disconnect the connectivity properly between (…) Read the rest of this entry »...(read more)

Dealing with Biztalk

jinath Blog — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:17:26 GMT

Well these days I’m into some BizTalk projects. Getting used to it after working years with ASP.NET and Web related stuff. Well BizTalk also in most occasions has to deal with TCP or TCP/IP, but it kind of interesting that you have to learn lots of concepts to what you know already. on top of [...]...(read more)

Windows Azure AppFabric April release now available [New version of the Access Control service]

inZeek — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:14:59 GMT

Windows Azure AppFabric team just released the Windows Azure AppFabric April release that includes a new version of the Access Control service. Now you can use the CTP features in production services. Note that new version of AppFabric ACS will (…) Read the rest of this entry »...(read more)

Imagine Cup 2011 Sri Lanka – 6 Finalist teams

wela — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:30:03 GMT

As most of you are already aware Imagine Cup 2011 Sri Lanka Software Design round is OOONN! and the 6 finalist teams are preparing for the big day. This year the Sri Lanka finals event will be held at the Moratuwa University Civil Engineering Auditorium as Moratuwa is our event hosting partner.

Sri Lanka finals : April 27, 2011


Project: makePossible, Team: Vishwa, From: University of Moratuwa Team Members: rumalp, Pasan, akiladarshana, Gayashan	Project: Savior, Team: Team Titan, From: University of Colombo School of Computing Team Members: Tharidu, Moditha, Chandula, Kalindu	Project: Child@EDU, Team: Sentinels 2.0, From: Universiy of Moratuwa Team Members: Madhusha, Thuru, Vimukthi, Yasoda

Project: V-Labm Team: CR-Coderzsm From: Informatics Institute of Technology Team Members: Sabry, Renien, Raathigeshan, Thiru	Project: Hear through Eyes, Team: PeraSoft, From: University of Peradeniya Team Members: Dinushan, Lahiru, Lakshitha, Madusanka	Project: Project Amma, Team: MISL, From: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Team Members: Mastercpj, Pahanimg10, Nim.sathsara, imalkacg