Hello everyone. I'm very pleased to write first about new Microsoft ASP.NET WebMatrix application. Namely, you have everything 'compressed' in one tool where you can build web applications with all features that .NET Framework 4.0 offers. Many developers are quite impressed with the way this tool is build even though it was just released and is on its Beta version. You can download WebMa...

JQuery has very useful library of functions regarding DOM's tree traversal. This morning I was playing around with parents(), parent() and closest() functions and I wanted to share the code in here. Brief description of the functions: parents() - this function will return all the ancestors in each element of the current set of matched elements. Moreover, you can use selector * parent('se...

In our daily life of software and databases development, there are various tasks that we are required to do. Today I was testing the features of MS SQL Server to change compatibility mode to the databases, so that, I thought it would be nice to write blog about it. Sometimes we need certain database features and behaviours to be compatible with other version of the MS SQL server database...

In most of the cases when we have database as datasource, the SqlDataSource control is used to bind to the ASP.NET Data Controls such as: Repeater, GridView, DataList, DetailsView, FormView etc. Today, I have been writing solution for binding data to Repeater from Custom XML file. Here is the solution how I did that. 1. On Visual Web Developer.NET, add new ASPX page. 2. Place RepeaterCon...