Common Base Class Work Around for Page and UserControl
The Gotcha This is a really sore subject for me because I have tried finding a unifying factor for both sets of objects, but the answer I have come up with is – there is no unifying factor. I ha...
GridView does not have a default Insert Support
Here is a fun fact for you. The ASP.NET GridView control does not have default Insert Support for your objects, even if you are using the “InsertItemTemplate” tag, it doesn’t matter!...
Entity Framework: Basic CRUD Operations
I like Entity Framework (EF), I think it is a little too rigid sometimes and it would be very nice if there was a very straight forward way to get Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) out of EF Entities. One ...
New cannot be used on a type parameter that does not have a new constraint
This is not such an obscure problem as it is just not straight forward to solve. Simply put you cannot instantiate a new instance of a generic object without explicitly saying that the method/class yo...
Custom Controls in ToolStrip or StatusStrip
This is not something I have had to deal with too often which is why it wasn’t apparent to me the first time around. FACT: You cannot drag and drop a custom control or any System.Windows.Form.Co...
Telerik RadGridView Column Format Calamity
Wow… just wow. I lost about an hour trying to figure out a: TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation. This is probably one of the most useless exception m...
WinForms: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I wrote about this already, but I just wanted to write a post about a very very weird encounter with this error while working with Win Forms. I kept getting the dreaded “Object reference not set...
DataGridViewButtonColumn Text Won’t Show
This is a stupid Gotcha, like most Gotchas it is just irritating and something that frankly could have been designed better. The Gripe If you set the Text property of a DataGridViewButtonColumn it do...