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 let me explain the reasoning behind the sub-title of my web-log.  “What was I thinking?” Not trying to be clever I intended this blog to be a repository of things that run through my brain from time to time; relaying personal opinions, remarking on various technical subjects, and serving as a brain dump of sorts. My wife immediately caught on to the hidden meaning that not all who read this will understand.  Committing to write an entry on this blog monthly, let alone da... [More]