Troy Howard's Blog

So, you may have found yourself building a nice user-friendly, somewhat complicated Windows Forms application, that had lots of drop-down menus and right click context menus, and what not..

So, you may have found yourself building a nice user-friendly, somewhat complicated Windows Forms application, that had lots of drop-down menus and right click context menus, and what not..

If, you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having a dynamically created Gridview control in your ASP.NET page AND needing to handle the SelectedIndexChanged event... as I was, you may find yourself banging your head against the monitor trying to…

If, you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having a dynamically created Gridview control in your ASP.NET page AND needing to handle the SelectedIndexChanged event... as I was, you may find yourself banging your head against the monitor trying to…

So, Visual Studio is pretty great right?

So, Visual Studio is pretty great right?

Following up on the same idea as the ListEnum code snippet, this is a method I often use to print the properties of an object to the console.

Following up on the same idea as the ListEnum code snippet, this is a method I often use to print the properties of an object to the console.

Today, on the ride home from work on the MAX train (local light-rail here in Portland, OR), I overheard a girl talking to some young Hispanic men.

Today, on the ride home from work on the MAX train (local light-rail here in Portland, OR), I overheard a girl talking to some young Hispanic men.

I recently wrote a class in C# that inherits from System.Diagnostics.Process.

I recently wrote a class in C# that inherits from System.Diagnostics.Process.

Well, having recently sparked an interest in moving towards a Open Source, cross platform, but still as cool as C#/VS2005 development platform, I of course landed in the middle of NetBeans 5.5 and Java.

Well, having recently sparked an interest in moving towards a Open Source, cross platform, but still as cool as C#/VS2005 development platform, I of course landed in the middle of NetBeans 5.5 and Java.

Sometimes you want to list an Enum and see what it's actual numeric values are...

Sometimes you want to list an Enum and see what it's actual numeric values are...

Today in the course of my work, I came across a situation where some of the files referred to in our SQL database were not actually on disk where we thought they were.

Today in the course of my work, I came across a situation where some of the files referred to in our SQL database were not actually on disk where we thought they were.

Well, I was very excited about getting the Vista sidebar to work on XP, until I started playing with the Gadgets.

Well, I was very excited about getting the Vista sidebar to work on XP, until I started playing with the Gadgets.

So, I was perusing codeproject.com and I came across their current Vista Gadgets Competition.

So, I was perusing codeproject.com and I came across their current Vista Gadgets Competition.

So, upon creating this blog, the first thing I felt obliged to do was to show it off to my roommate and idea-raquetball partner Max Strini (his blog).

So, upon creating this blog, the first thing I felt obliged to do was to show it off to my roommate and idea-raquetball partner Max Strini (his blog).

Creating this blog today was extremely simple.

Creating this blog today was extremely simple.

Note: A work of fiction, originally written for The Salem Monthly Newspaper Dear reader, I would like, if I may, to relate a story to you.

Note: A work of fiction, originally written for The Salem Monthly Newspaper Dear reader, I would like, if I may, to relate a story to you.

Note: This article originally written for the Salem Monthly Newspaper Oregon Peaceworks is a local non-profit organization who's stated mission is "to educate and activate people to work for peace, justice, and environmental protection".

Note: This article originally written for the Salem Monthly Newspaper Oregon Peaceworks is a local non-profit organization who's stated mission is "to educate and activate people to work for peace, justice, and environmental protection".