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Creating an Enhanced Checklist Control

By Mischa Rihm

Visual Studio .NET does not come with a standard date picker control for web applications. This article shows you how to create a user control that mimics a date picker control. The article outlines the creation of two date controls, a simple date control with limited functionality and a more complex control that uses a dynamically created iFrame to display the calendar information.

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Creating an Enhanced Checklist Control

January 2008  Author: Mischa Rihm

This artice shows how to customize the look and feel of the standard CheckBoxList control by creating an enhanced CheckBoxList control that will allow you to create a multi-selection check box groups with functionality that is not possible to implement with the standard CheckBoxList control alone.

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Exporting to Excel From a Web Application - Part 2

December 2007  Author: Mischa Rihm

This article is the second of two article that outlines the use of Xml to dynamically generate an Excel document and send it to the user over the Internet. This second part focuses on how we can use the class framework that we developed in the first part to to create an actual Excel document.

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Exporting to Excel From a Web Application - Part 1

November 2007  Author: Mischa Rihm

This is the first of two articles that explores the use of Xml to export data from a web application to Excel. The first part outlines the framework that will allow use to take any data and export it with a minimal amount of coding.

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Mail Merge Using Xslt

July 2007  Author: Mischa Rihm

In this article we take a look at how we can use stylesheet transformation (Xslt) to mimick a mail merge by combining information from a database (or any other data source) with a stylesheet template to create personalized batch emails.

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