Articles by Gregory Gadow (Articles: 18, Tip/Tricks: 6)

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Database Development
SQL Server	DbToolbox: Utilities for data access and management Posted: 10 Jan 2014 Updated: 15 Jan 2014 Views: 28,333 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 605 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Database access and management can be a chore in .Net. This toolbox can make it easier.
Desktop Programming
Win32	April Fools! Evil Windows Dialog Prank Posted: 31 Mar 2011 Updated: 31 Mar 2011 Views: 43,861 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 545 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Prank your coworkers with a dialog box that appears and disappears randomly by using a notification area app.
Windows Forms	Close Your Application to the Notification Area Posted: 25 Aug 2010 Updated: 25 Aug 2010 Views: 42,501 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.97 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 1,794 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to write an app that will go to the system tray when the user closes it
Programming Languages
Visual Basic	Roll Your Own MsgBox Posted: 6 May 2010 Updated: 6 May 2010 Views: 55,334 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.19 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 2,736 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a custom message box from first principles, including system sounds and print capability.
	Have fun with the MDI client area Posted: 31 Jul 2008 Updated: 31 Jul 2008 Views: 61,861 Rating: 3.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.11 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to modify your client area properties, center controls, and do other fun tricks.
	The VeryRichOutput Control Posted: 1 Aug 2011 Updated: 1 Aug 2011 Views: 18,350 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.94 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 362 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Subclass the WebBrowser control to harness the power of HTML and CSS in your output displays.
	A nullable DateTimePicker that is easy to write and easy to use Posted: 15 May 2008 Updated: 15 May 2008 Views: 71,644 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.35 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 2,067 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With Visual Studio 2008, it is easy to create a nullable version of Microsoft's DateTimePicker.
	Launch User's Default Browser from a Desktop Application Posted: 1 Oct 2008 Updated: 1 Oct 2008 Views: 23,090 Rating: 2.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.75 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 147 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Find your users' preferred browser and launch it safely, with or without a starting URL.
	Create a System Tray Application in VB.NET Posted: 26 Apr 2010 Updated: 4 May 2010 Views: 262,840 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 9.15 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 124 Downloaded: 19,894 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Write an application that launches in the notification area.
	Share Resources Across Multiple Projects Posted: 6 Oct 2008 Updated: 6 Oct 2008 Views: 40,262 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.14 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 770 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Centralize your resources into a single module and export them in an organized, controlled way.
	Extend the .NET Library with Extension Methods Posted: 20 Mar 2009 Updated: 1 Apr 2009 Views: 60,231 Rating: 4.21/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.48 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With extension methods, you can add new functionality to .NET objects.
	Generate InitializeComponent Code for Custom Containers Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Updated: 29 Mar 2010 Views: 29,811 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.91 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 549 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstrate how to use a designer to pre-populate custom Windows controls with child controls having unique names.
Visual Basic 10	Extending Forms.Control: Lock and Unlock Posted: 23 Jun 2009 Updated: 30 Jun 2009 Views: 65,305 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.87 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 1,275 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to extend the Forms.Control object to add locking and unlocking capability
Web Development
ASP.NET	Documenting the Life Cycle of an ASP Page Posted: 2 Sep 2010 Updated: 2 Sep 2010 Views: 35,113 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 169 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple framework for documenting the events of master and child pages and web controls.
HTML	A Plugin for CKEditor With Dynamic Data Posted: 16 Dec 2010 Updated: 16 Dec 2010 Views: 43,945 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 822 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With JavaScript and a bit of ASP.NET, it is possible to create a plugin for CKEditor that allows users to select from items drawn from a database.
	Response.Filter, pt 1: Server Side Table of Contents Posted: 9 Mar 2011 Updated: 29 Mar 2011 Views: 28,400 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.33 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 150 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dynamically generate a table of contents for your web page without using client-side scripting.
	Response.Filter, Part 2: Auto-generated References Posted: 23 Mar 2011 Updated: 29 Mar 2011 Views: 21,681 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 120 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dynamically generate reference tags for footnotes and bibliographies server side, and avoid a maintenance nightmare.
	Persist JavaScript changes on postback Posted: 5 Jun 2013 Updated: 6 Jun 2013 Views: 24,881 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.70 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use JavaScript to let your web user make changes, and then retrieve those changes server-side on postback.

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Database Development
SQL Server	Data mining SQL Server Agent [Tip/Trick] Posted: 23 Nov 2010 Updated: 24 Nov 2010 Views: 12,450 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Search job commands for text, find jobs by schedule and other spiffy things
Programming Languages
Visual Basic	Getting more from your enumerations [Tip/Trick] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 Updated: 11 Dec 2012 Views: 17,223 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With LINQ, you can retrieve an enumeration's metadata, such as its minimum and maximum values and whether it contains a given value.
	Test if a TreeNode was actually clicked [Tip/Trick] Posted: 8 Nov 2013 Updated: 20 Nov 2013 Views: 20,082 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.95 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Test if a TreeNode was expanded or collapsed rather than actually clicked.
Web Development
ASP.NET	Crystal Reports: Fix for "Load report failed" error. [Tip/Trick] Posted: 28 Apr 2010 Updated: 14 Jun 2011 Views: 142,443 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.77 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Fix for "Load report failed" error in Crystal Reports
HTML	Let your users know when Javascript is not enabled [Tip/Trick] Posted: 3 Mar 2014 Updated: 3 Mar 2014 Views: 14,470 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Does your website need JavaScript to look its best? You can warn users with a very simple JS/CSS trick.
IIS	Custom error pages for ALL file types [Tip/Trick] Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Updated: 10 Oct 2011 Views: 28,486 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Configure your IIS site to serve custom error pages for all your file types: .html, .aspx, .pdf, whatever.

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Gregory Gadow


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Gregory Gadow recently graduated from Central Washington University with a B.S. that combined economics and statistical analysis, and currently works for the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife as an IT developer. He has been writing code for 30 years in more than a dozen programming languages, including Visual Basic, VB.Net, C++, C#, ASP, HTML, XML, SQL, and R.