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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 [...]

I came across a rather unusual issue at work last week — one involving Oracle database connections. The application I’ve been working on makes us of multiple Oracle connections; some of them simple connections which open, perform a read, and then close; and some of them are persistent connections that are utilized for larger transactions, [...]

I was scratching my head over this issue for a while. I’ve written briefly on the topic of binding a GridView inside of a Repeater before, but I encountered another issue recently when trying to bind data to a control within a GridView, nested inside of a Repeater.
Originally, I was approaching the task as I [...]

The Scenario
I’ve recently been placed in a scenario where I was required to nest a GridView control within a Repeater control. I thought this would be more straight forward then it ended up being, so I began searching for my elegant solution. Unfortunately this wasn’t as straight forward a task as I thought it would [...]

I ran into an issue trying to utilize .NET’s Server.Transfer method attempting to pass variables from one form, located in a sub directory, to another form, located in a different sub directory. Passing .NET’s Server.Transfer method an absolute path of the desired location should have been enough to redirect the browser, but (of course) it [...]