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

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Database Development
SQL Server	DbToolbox: Utilities for data access and management 10 Jan 2014 Updated: 15 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,383 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 612 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 31 Mar 2011 Updated: 31 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,071 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 556 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 25 Aug 2010 Updated: 25 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,491 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 1,806 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 6 May 2010 Updated: 6 May 2010 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,794 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 2,780 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 31 Jul 2008 Updated: 31 Jul 2008 Rating: 3.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,391 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 1 Aug 2011 Updated: 1 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,650 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 15 May 2008 Updated: 15 May 2008 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,944 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 2,079 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 1 Oct 2008 Updated: 1 Oct 2008 Rating: 2.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,540 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 151 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 26 Apr 2010 Updated: 4 May 2010 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 9.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 274,652 Bookmarked: 124 Downloaded: 20,255 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Write an application that launches in the notification area.
	Share Resources Across Multiple Projects 6 Oct 2008 Updated: 6 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,822 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 788 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 20 Mar 2009 Updated: 1 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.21/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,962 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 29 Mar 2010 Updated: 29 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,941 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 556 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 23 Jun 2009 Updated: 30 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,735 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 1,301 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 2 Sep 2010 Updated: 2 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,853 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 16 Dec 2010 Updated: 16 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,155 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 826 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 9 Mar 2011 Updated: 29 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,150 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 151 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 23 Mar 2011 Updated: 29 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,001 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 5 Jun 2013 Updated: 6 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,611 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] 23 Nov 2010 Updated: 24 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,980 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] 15 Jun 2012 Updated: 11 Dec 2012 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,023 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] 8 Nov 2013 Updated: 20 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,452 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] 28 Apr 2010 Updated: 14 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 146,513 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] 3 Mar 2014 Updated: 3 Mar 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,060 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] 10 Oct 2011 Updated: 10 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,866 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.