Recently I had to create a custom Grid control that allows user to do grouping, sorting, paging and filtering data displaying in it. I spent few days to figure out if there are third party controls (like Xceed, Infragistics etc) that can meet my requirements. Sadly I found that these controls can't fulfill what I… Continue reading Custom SPGridView

Last night, I was playing around with some cool new features of .net framework 4.0, which a CTP released as a VPC, can be downloaded from here.There are many new stuffs Microsoft planned to release with Visual Studio 10. Parallel Extension is one of them. Parallel extension is a set of APIs that is embedded… Continue reading Parallel Extensions of .NET 4.0

.NET 3.o provides the feature named “Extension methods”, which is used drastically by the LINQ library. For example, the Enumerable class of System.Linq namespace declares a whole bunch of static extension methods that allows user to write Linq enabled smart looking methods on any IEnumerable instance. For instance, Generates output like following Here, we are… Continue reading Extension Methods

I need to figure out how I could I selectively remove some Standard SharePoint list context menu. For example, most of the list context menus contain Edit Item, Delete Item etc. assume I have to keep the delete menu but need to strike out the "Edit Item". How can we do that? Go to the page… Continue reading How to remove SharePoint context menus selectively

Often we need to bring some client side data (e.g. javascript variable's value) into the server side for processing. Doing this usually done using hidden fields- registering hidden fields from server and modifying the values at client side using javascript and finally bringing back the modified value to the server along with a post back.… Continue reading Posting client side data to server side in ASP.NET AJAX