Rodan Sotto's Tech Blog

This past year and a half gave me new skills from my last project.  I learned Regular Expression, XSLT, XPath, Java, Eclipse, and C#.  In the next few weeks or months I will be making some changes on this blog.  I will be refocusing my effort now on C# instead of VB.NET.  It would be best for me to use C# as my main language so I can easily swi... Read More

Page Load Event Page Load event is fired when the page is loaded and accessed for the first time and when it is loaded in response to a client postback.  But if you need to initialize variables or want something to happen only once during the first load of the page, you can use the IsPostBack property of the Page object to determine if the page... Read More

When you first started your Visual Studio 2005 you were asked to specify the default settings and I set mine to Visual Basic Development Settings.  If you want to change this setting, say to Visual C# Development Settings, you need to go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings… and go through the wizard to change it. When you go create a new ... Read More

I was looking at the code generated by Visual Studio and I encounter this Global keyword.  Found out that you use this when you want to start the qualification chain at the outermost level of the .NET Framework class library, e.g.: Global.System.Int32 This is useful if you are in a situation where you have defined a namespace in your code nes... Read More

A new feature in Visual Studio 2005 is the ability to add XML comments to your procedures and functions and even classes, which can be picked up by Visual Studio’s IntelliSense besides providing means to generate documentation and help files for the source code.  To add the XML comments, type 3 single quotes (’’‘) to the line before the procedu... Read More