This Christmas I'm all about the classics.

and by classics, I mean Elf Bowling.

It's looking more and more like I may be working on a pretty big VB.Net project here in the near future.

Besides brushing up on some basic VB knowledge from a previous life and getting used to this menu, it's also clear that I will need a pretty hefty supply of eggnog to get me through these times.  A quick search produced this recipe.  But then there is always the low carb thing that I have been doing lately.  Another search led me to some low carb eggnog.  What will they think of next?  Excuse me, while I "get my nog on".

Ok.  Let's try this again.  I'm gonna push the save button, and we'll see if this post is saved, or posted.

a test post from my newsgator client.
I didn't even know this existed until I read about it on Bliz's blog

Doc Searls gives some pointers about presentations.  via scoble.

So, I have been tinkering away with datagrids for a little while now.  For the last few years most all of my projects have had at least one datagrid, usually quite a few.  Throughout all those projects we made use of the base datagrid functionality.  Show data.  Put an add button on there to add a blank record in a new row.  Put an edit button on there to set the EditItemIndex and allow the user to modify data.  Put an update button to actually trigger the update (or add) to happen.  And toss on a delete button for deleting. 

Recently though, we moved on from this simple “update one row at a time” approach, and started using the grid to help us update multiple records at a time.  It works great!  At one time, though, I was asking myself, “How in the hell do I set more than one row into edit mode at the same time?”  That's the kind of thinking that can have your head spinning and make you spend countless hours searching down the wrong path, for an answer that is never to be found. 

How do you do it, you ask?  Well I was going to write a lengthy post about the subject but after doing some more in depth research I've found quite a few people have already written about this very thing (how didn't I find these earlier).  While most all people have the same basic idea, and some even have a small working example, I'm just going to point you to the guys who can tell it to you like it is.  The Visual Studio Team.  Find the answers to the Top Ten Questions about the DataGrid Web Server Control.

I do, however, need to give Scott Hanselman a plug for Bringing Data Along For The Ride.  He has some good insights into the grid and I made use of decorating some of my objects with attributes where I stored s

Lots going on the past few weeks.  Soon I'll drop a post on here about some grid work that has been done.  For now though, it's a race to get everything done before I take a little time off for Christmas and New Years.

If you're feeling really bored though, you can always go read George Bush's blog.

check out this 360 degree view from the top of Mt. Everest.

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