Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Year: 2011

  • CSS3 Table Border Rounding in Older Versions of the Major Browsers

    Introduction: In the past while I have been playing with CSS3 markup to round my HTML table borders. The latest versions of the major browsers now support CSS3 table border rounding using standardized CSS3 property tags. This means that IE9+, Firefox8+, Chrome5+, Opera10.5+, Safari5+ all support the border-radius: Npx property style. However older versions of…

  • CSS3 Table Border Rounding for Modern Browsers (IE9+, Firefox, Chrome5+)

    Background: Lately I have been playing around with HTML5 and CSS3 while building a Web Site UI for a corporate Intranet. I am guaranteed that users will be using IE, so I am happily able to tailor my code directly for IE 9. The caveat to using CSS3 rounded borders in IE is that they…

  • VB.NET Type Conversion (Casting) Overview

    VB.NET supports several type conversion functions. Widening conversions are handled by the compiler and don’t need to be explicitly written, but narrowing conversions require use of VB.NET’s type conversion functions. The three type conversion functions are: DirectCast CType (and CInt, CStr,…Cxxx) TryCast The compiler may not report an error if you code a narrowing conversion…