Matt Berseth

Well, I finally found some time over the long weekend to sit down and organize my 'live demo' links into a single, browsable site.  You can check it our here: http://mattberseth2.com/demo/.  It is far from perfect, but in my opinion it is much better than having all of my demo links scattered through out my blog posts.  The live demo's for all of my new work will be hooked into this page - so feel free to bookmark it. You can filter the demo links using the 'Filter' drop down list.  So if you only want to see my GridView demo's, just select that option from the drop down list and the 'Live Demos' links will only include links to my GridView articles.  Once an item from the 'Live Demos' section is selected, the content area of the page fills with the title of the post, a short description of...

I am lovin' the total control the ListView control is giving me.  This past week a link to Telerik's new RadGrid control was floating around the office - and the general consensus was that the in-line editing capabilities control was pretty cool.  And I completely agree - the in-line edit feature is pretty useful.  But ... you don't need to buy the RadGrid to create a grid like this.  ASP.NET 3.5's ListView control provides excellent out of the box support for scenarios like this. Check out the screen shot below (or even better, open up my live demo).  This grid provides the same in-line editing support as the RadGrid, it is incredibly flexible if you want to tweak the layout, and best of all there is absolutely zero codebehind logic!  Did I mention I am lovin' the new ListView? Below are some of the implementation details - read on if...

The second entry in my BugBash series ... The Bug I recently wrote a post discussing how to implement a master-detail editing scenario using ASP.NET's GridView and DetailsView along with the AjaxControlToolkit's ModalPopup control.  My example was pretty standard - each data row in the GridView has an Edit button that when clicked displays the selected row within a DetailsView.  My DetailsView uses RequiredFieldValidators for each of the input fields to make sure the user has provided the required information.  My sample seemed to work great - I certainly had no issues.  But, as Konstantin G posted in a comment - there is a bug hiding out in my example.  Here was what Konstantin G had to say:  Hi Matt, Great example! Everything works fine, but when you leave blank required field, and hit Cancel button, you can't display modal popup again. Any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks....

If you use AJAX in your web app's, you no doubt have made use of some sort of progress/status indicator that lets the user know that some operation is currently executing.  In the app I am currently working on we use an animated gif for this.  It works great, but sometimes you might find it nice to have more control over the indicator - i.e. interacting with it via JavaScript and styling it using CSS. So I did a little research and found a nice example of one built using script.aculo.us.  The demo page looked great so I downloaded the source to get a feel for how it worked.  I liked what I saw so I thought I would create a new AjaxControlToolkit control based on this example.  My original goal was just to port it over to ASP.NET, but as I started playing around with it I thought I...

I know most dev's prefer writing new code over fixing/maintaining the existing stuff.  And most days I feel the same way.  But every once in a while it is kind of fun signing up for that one lingering defect that no one else can seem to fix.  Maybe you know the one - its not reproducible, only occurs in production and brings the system to its knee's?  Sound familiar? Well I thought I might try something new and blog about some of the juicy bugs we have found hanging out in our app.  This might turn into a blog series or something, or maybe not.  Who knows. The Bug The app I am currently working on has a page that uses ASP.NET AJAX's new Timer control to automatically refresh the page every 30 seconds.  The page is one of those status pages that lets you monitor the progress of some...

I am working on a project that needs a new screen for bulk entry tasks.  We have a few business scenarios coming up where we have people inputting 5 to 8 records of data at a time.  I met with a few of our analysts last week and hashed out a rough outline of what they were looking for.  About 10 times or so during the 30 minute meeting some form of the phrase 'kind of like excel' was mentioned.  Our data entry personnel are familiar with excel and our analysts thought an excel styled grid would make a lot of sense.  'An excel grid with a Submit button' was the phrase I had underlined twice in my notes.  I wasn't too worried about the grid's styling, but I wasn't quite sure what the best way to handle the 'bulk insert' requirement.  Most of our other grids require an explicit...