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: Web Development

  • 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…

  • The Default zIndex of a JQuery UI Dialog

    While I was working with a JQuery UI dialog today I noticed that some of the absolutely positioned layers on my page would overlap with a JQuery UI dialog when dragging the dialog object across the form. This broke the basic movement option of the dialog and would be unacceptable for users of the Web page.…

  • ASP.NET GridView Paging Problem – Paging Increases the First Column Width

    A request came to my desk today about a project that is using an ASP.NET 2.0 DataGrid control to display a set of data. The DataGrid has paging enabled, but the client was complaining that the first column of the report was far too wide for the data it was displaying. I took a look…