A question posed by @Ramsharma1234 on Twitter this morning asked how to implement Factory Patterns in ASP.NET. (definition of Factory Pattern) Below is what would be considered a very basic form of Factory Pattern. This method will essentially instantiate a generic Object, which is the parent of all types of Objects, and later be treated … Read more
Programmatically setting the connection string for a Crystal Reports ReportDocument will allow you to have the report automatically use the active connection string for the rest of the application (as in previous posts). In this case, the report is created using a method that is triggered by clicking a button on a form. The log … Read more
One of the hardest things for me to find coherent information on has been how to set up spell checking for multi-line TextBoxes on ASP.NET forms. In my search, I came across Hunspell, an open source spell checker that is widely used in applications such as OpenOffice. To set up Hunspell for use in your … Read more