when setting the selected value in a radiobuttonlist or other list web control in asp.net, it is prudent to check whether the list contains the option you intend selecting first! this avoids those annoying “out of range” error messages. one way of doing this is to use code similar to the following: if not myRadioButtonList.Items.FindByValue("whatever") [...]

we had just about finished singing auld lang syne when hearts started to fill every shop window. it seems that the hype surrounding valentine’s day gets more ridiculous each year. the idea is innocent enough; a day to celebrate love and romance, a good natured bit of silliness like april fool’s day. unfortunately, greeting card [...]

although i’ve been ill lately, my spirits were cheered by a lovely mail from bernie and some yummy pancakes in the last year or so, i’ve grown fond of indulging in pancakes all year round, thanks to lemon, milis and lemonjelly. i feared that a downside of this would be that pancake tuesday would slightly [...]

i’ve been under the weather again and an unfortunate casualty this time was a microsoft introductory .net lab which i was supposed to attend today i was really looking forward to learning what visual studio had to offer and getting an overview of the exciting features coming in asp.net 2.0. luckily, there seem to be [...]