Welcome to the second installment of my series on the SPGridView. In Part 1 I introduced the SPGridView, the ObjectDataSource and the SPGridViewPager. The result was a reusable component that supports sorted and paging. In this installment, we will extend the component to support filtering. Filtering is one of the most sought-after features of the [...]

For you who did not know yet, the first Beta of Visual Studio 2010 Professional is now available for download. I just set it up on a VPC and I must say, first impressions are good. So I have a soft spot for eyecandy. I think it’s incredibly important that the tool you work with [...]

Last year, on May 22nd I wrote my very first post on this blog. The topic? My visit to the DevDays ’08. How time flies.. This year, I was almost forced to miss DevDays. The economic recession has hit all of us and since Antares’ customers are mostly based in logistics, financial and government fields [...]

The SPGridView is one of the most ubiquitous controls used in SharePoint. Every single list in SharePoint (and as we all know there’s lots of those!) uses the SPGridView to display its data in neatly formatted rows. We’re able to sort its data, filter it and click on an item to choose from any options [...]

There are quite a number of posts concerning the SPGridView. The ones I would particularly recommend are those of Paul Robinson and Robert Fridén. However, most posts are only concerned with a particular feature of the SPGridView, like paging, sorting and menu fields. So I gathered it was a good idea to try and combine [...]

I’ve spend the last few days building a set of Virtual PC’s running Windows 2008 to cater for my different development needs. As I was starting from scratch anyway, I spent some time researching ways to optimize the performance of my VPC’s. Andrew Connell has an excellent HOWTO on several ways to achieve better performing [...]

As of this morning I am officially allowed to call myself Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Application Developer! Needless to say, I am quite pleased with myself The question is, what will I do next? The MCPD upgrade exams for Visual Studio 2008 aren’t available in my area yet. I am considering Windows Workflow Foundation [...]

I’ve been playing around with Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM for a while now and I am slowly falling in love with it. Since I started using it I have literally not touched my SQL Server Management Studio once except to view the content of my tables. Why? Because OpenAccess supports forward mapping. I create my class [...]

I’ve been away for a while due to illness but I haven’t sat completely still. Last Friday I passed the 070-529: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Distributed Application Development exam. This completed my MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications. In addition to that, I passed the 070-526 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-Based Client Development [...]

Today I passed the 70-536 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation exam. I’m happier about this one than I was about the Web-Based Client exam since I barely had time to study due to illness. So, this completes my MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications and gets me yet another step closer to my MCPD: [...]