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Adding to the strange impression I’m sure most of you already have about me, I’m going to make a confession: I actually enjoy going to work in a cubical each day. In fact, when I was just a wee-tyke, I remember visiting my Aunt Diane at her office and marvelling at her cubical. It was [...]

It’s that time of year again. The week between Christmas and New Years has always been one of reflection for me. This week provides the perfect opportunity to dredge through a whole year’s worth of memories, accomplishments, and ideas (made especially easy by browsing the archives of PaulHobson.com) and seeing if any of it can [...]

The Preamble:
I stumbled across what I’m concidering to be odd behavoir on the part of .NET’s Repeater Control. Specifically, while attempting to access a control nested within the Repeater’s Footer Template — and the fact that I couldn’t directly access the control… at all.
The Situation
I’m currently using the Repeater to …um… ‘repeat’ particular data [...]

I’ve been rather moody when it comes to my companion site: Off The Couch. Some days I think that content is too fatuous to merit any of my ever dwindling free time, and other days I just have too much fun unpdating and maintaining it. This past fall, I had convinced myself that I simply [...]

The Repeater Control has to be one of the best controls ASP.Net has to offer. It’s flexible enough in it’s design to allow for significant markup customizations and yet shares the same simplicity of use as a GridView control. The only issue I have with the Repeater is it’s Databinding requirement. Though this isn’t even [...]