Duane Koford

Background This started out as an experiment with ASP.NET MVC.  When you create a MVC project it auto-creates the membership functionality for you.  By default the membership provider it uses is the local MSSQL Express instance.  This is great but I host my sites with a shared provider and MSSQL Express is not available.  I could use MSSQL but am limited to the number of databases I can create, or I can use MySql.  So I started looking for a MySql membership provider so... [More]

I am filing this in the category of WTF (What Terrible Functionality).  We have all created forms with many different input controls that post back information we then process in some way.  Our users have come to expect that when they hit enter while filling out the form that it will trigger the submission of the form, and we usually do the processing through the onClick event of the submit button.  I was creating a very simple form 1 textbox and a button that was to be used f... [More]

I have been working on a solution that used the asp:ListView to manipulate data from an access database. After defining the Layout, Item, EditItem, and Update Templates I was impressed with how much control I had over the display formats and CSS integration that this control allows.  The template I was using is a standard html table.  The display of the data worked perfectly, but when I attempted to edit a record it replaced everything with blank values.  Inserting a new re... [More]

So I was driving to work when I notice a car with some strange apparatus mounted to the roof.  I was headed north on I-15 between Farmington and Layton.  So I catch up with this car...  Unfortunately, the camera on my cell phone didn't pick up the bumper stickers from the glare but they say Google Maps.  The dot about 3 feet above the roof is the 360 degree camera used for Google Maps Streetview.  So keep your eyes open on I-15 on Google maps and you might just... [More]

So for the last few days I have been scouring through lines and lines of code trying to figure out why the ASP Repeater control <asp:repeater ...> control was not working.  I checked everything from the record set to the data binding to make sure I had covered all the bases.  Everything checked out but when I loaded the page the data was not displayed. So in an attempt to troubleshoot the situation I created a new C# web form in VS 2005.  Keeping it simple I ad... [More]