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Disabling Submit Button from AJAX Update Panel to Prevent Double Posting
13 Mar 2009, 04:54:00 PM
It’s a fairly trivial task in ASP.NET to disable Submit button or LinkButton after user clicks on it to prevent immediate second submit while page is still refreshing. This problem sometime referenced as a double-click issue while it’s actually ...
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Visual Studio 2008 Power Commands
26 Feb 2009, 08:47:00 AM
It's a very useful set of free tools Microsoft put together to address some limitations of Visual Studio 2008 IDE.     Download from here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands   Features description from their website: Enable/ ...
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Converting Unicode Punctuation to Basic Latin (ASCII)
18 Nov 2008, 04:03:00 PM
Recently I spent fair amount of time researching issues with Unicode. More than often copy-pasting from Word document would result in some corrupted text after processing the form. What I found is that Word replaces some input with Unicode charact ...
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Hidden Flight Simulator in Google Earth
10 Mar 2008, 10:10:00 AM
I'm a big fan of Google Earth. I used it since early Beta versions and still discovering something new. Yesterday I found the coolest feature! The latest Google Earth contains a hidden flight simulator mode. Press Ctrl+ Alt+A and you can chose to ...
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