By host on Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:00 PM

I began work on my DNN V4.8 version of my Site.  Over the next few weeks you will see several changes.  I  have been delaying this change until I had something worth while to show off..

Well the new version of SQLGridSelectedView is coming to a point that I will begin to offer it to a wide group of beta testers to see if they can break it.   It have been a long time coming, but the new module is a complete re-write from the group up and this has been a big learning curve. 

The new design allows me to dynamically place all the selection fields on the form.  This is also the most work as I must handle the viewstate problems this causes.  Basically if the form is dynamic, you need to restore the page in memory prior to the page load event as just prior to the page load event the viewstate is restored and the user values are place in the fields.  If the fields don't exist, then you can't restore the viewstate and user input. 

So for the first version of the new control, the selection and display...

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By host on Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:15:52 PM

Since attending OpenForce '07 in Vegas this passed November, I have been working on a new Version of SQLGridSelectedView.  I had several features I wanted to add, but the main reason for a new version was the conversion from ASP.NET V1.1 to V2.0.  This also meant the move to VS2005 and the new architecture used for Web Applications. 

I am in the home stretch on the implementation and have been testing and testing -- it gets rather boring after a while, but I want this version to be relatively stable before going to beta testing.  I have faced a few challenges along the way, especially getting DNN to work as smoothing in VS2005 as I had it VS2003.  But most of those issues behind me I did run into a rather interesting issue with ASP.NET V2.0 GridView. 

The issue surrounds getting a CSS class to work on the pager used by the GridView.  As much as I tried, and boy did I try everything I could think of, the more I more I started to dislike IE. I finally got a hint on this was a "known" problem when...

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