If you are a developer and like me you mostly develop data driven applications, then I am sure that you have had to write a couple of paging functions and controls. I very rarely use the asp.net datagrid control as I find it bloated and harder to customize its UI. Instead I use the handy and much lighter weigth datalist and repeater controls. Of course the drawback with the afore mentioned controls is that they do not come equipped with an integrated paging control as the datagrid does, but the folks at DotNetNuke did a fine job at remedying the situation: they built ... [More]

The other day I had to build a simple listing of data that required having a radio button on each line so as to enable a user to select and option. I planned to use a datalist control and to place a radio button control in the itemtemplate. When I ran a quick test I immediately noticed a peculiar issue, all the radio buttons where selectable at the same time! As usual, I googled the symptom and quickly found that there seems to be an issue with both ASP.net 1.1 and 2.0 where the radio button controls in the list become all selectable (more like checkboxes) while the ... [More]