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This seems to be one of those issues that keeps on confusing people and not surprisingly really.   When you set the DataFormatString on a bound field to something, say "{0:N2}" for a numeric field it seems the data is ignored. One way of fixing this is by selecting the "" link and turning the item into a template. There is however a better way and that is setting the HtmlEncode flag to false. This is actually caused because the value is Html encoded before the data formatting is done, I pre ... [ read more ]
The installation of VS 2005 Professional proved to be seemless. The only issue was the length of time it took to install - in excess of an hour when the VS, MSDN & VS SP1 had all been installed. This was on a pretty reasonable development PC too - my Dell Latitude D620 . So if you are going for a VS install I'd advise putting aside at least an hour and have a .NET learning book handy ;-)
We have finally gone ahead at work and purchased Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional . To kick start learning VB.NET 2005 I have purchased the following 3 books from Amazon : Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step By Step . Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Step By Step . Microsoft Programming Visual Basic 2005 : The Language . I have to be honest and say that my first choice would have been to purchase Murach's books as I am a big fan of theirs but I found a few of issues when trying to ... [ read more ]
Custom Control to provide Phase Progress by polygonal shapes


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