Templating your User Controls

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ASP.NET controls often allow you to apply custom templates to the controls to customise the output. A great example is the Datagrid or the Gridview where you can template almost every aspect of the control. So naturally, developing your own user control, this functionality would come in handy.

However, the documentation is pretty sparse on this technique and it was a great suprise to come across an article by Robert Seder which explains it all. I just wrote a user control that adds a document management UI to our accounting engine and templating the control now becomes a breeze. Its a good read.

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Pocket Aces for the Bloggers

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Online PokerI have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.Registration code: 9327468

Much to my happiness, this weekend’s hold-em takings topped $20,000 which was a pretty good haul. 3 tournaments won, and one 6th place in a $10,000 buy-in which ended on a stupid all-in on a pair of 10s.

We’ll see how the blogger tourney goes before I pull out my credit card again. ;)