Over the past few days I have been travelling around the country by car, something I have not done for a while, preferring the train. It was a good chance to try out a couple of gadgets. One I have had a for a while, my HTC Touch Cruise phone, but the other was new a Pure Highway DAB car radio. So what did I learn? The phone I have recently set my phone to use push email (so constantly sync’ing with Exchange during office hours)....
I have been building a webpart that needs client side validation. I kept getting the error: “Unable to find control id txtNotes referenced by the ‘ControlToValidate’ property” Now most of the posts say just use the command to get the ‘real’ ID at runtime this.rfvNotes.ControlToValidate = this.txtNotes.ClientID; But this did not work, in the end the form I found worked was: protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e) { base.OnInit(e); this.txtNotes.ID = “txtNotes”;...
Update 29 Mar 2010 - See this post for some updated usage notes I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it’s WIKI architecture does not lend itself to working within our Team Foundation Server based development model....
I see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can’t make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net. However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don’t you?)
The July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.