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.

Category: .Net

  • VS2010 Custom Outlook Folder View Including UDFs (User Defined Fields)

    If you are building an Outlook Add-In application with Visual Studio, it’s likely that at some point you will want programmatic control over the information that Outlook shows in a specific email folder. For instance, let’s say that you have code that automatically backs up sent emails to a custom folder hierarchy. So if the…

  • VS2010 Outlook ThisAddIn – How to Get the Sent Email Message

    When writing an email add-in for Outlook with Visual Studio, it’s really quite easy to get the email message object while the send event is in progress using the Application.ItemSend event. However this event happens before the email is sent, so although it can be useful, the Application.ItemSend event is often not the correct event handler to…

  • ASP.NET Overview of Binding a DropDownList to a FormView

    If you use (or want to use) .NET WebForms databinding then you know that dropdown lists can be tricky to populate and mange. For example, say you have a FormView control with an embedded DropDownList control that you want to bind and pre-select when someone views the form. It’s not immediately intuitive how to do…