I finally started using the Google AdWords API this week. Generally, this allows you to do anything you do by logging on to the Adwords site programmatically. However, it seems there are some things you can only do through the UI at the moment and even a few things you can more easily do through [...]

If you have SQL Server connections to databases on localhost in ASP.NET applications in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and they have suddenly stopped working, or you can’t create new connections, here is one possible reason.
If you installed Windows XP SP2, this breaks the functionality in Dreamweaver which enables you to connect to local SQL Server databases. [...]

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")
is nothing [...]

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 [...]