Scott Hanselman

I'm glad I'm not the only one that notice this. It's such an incredibly obvious omission, That I immediately assumed it was my fault and I was missing something. Can someone let me know if I'm completely out of touch on this or is it true that XmlDataSource.XPath and XPathBinder don't accept namespace qualified documents for evaluation with XPath? I am in the middle of a chapter on System.Xml for .NET 2.0 and I am surprised to have hit upon this missing functionality.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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He's prolific.  You're likely using his tools today, and you may not know his name.  He's D.J. Jeff Freakin' Key baby, and he's done it again.

Check out his new Screen Ruler.  Ya, I know it's been done before by others, but his is in .NET, and it's transparent. 

Additionally, if you're not rockin' Snippet Compiler, you're a punk.  And I don't mean that in the nice Modern English way.  Check out his library of goodness here.

One of the things that I have to give Jeff props on (take a note here, non-UI developers) - his stuff is ALWAYS polished. It's consistant and it's pretty.  Not pretty in an overt way, but in a "fits into your life way." The only other developer that has impressed me with their consistant and clean UI is Nick Bradbury.

Note to Freeware/Shareware authors.  I will ALWAYS pick the cool transparent app over the opaque one.  Maybe that's just me.

(Additionally you have to respect a guy who uses PNG.  Also, you can pick Jeff up on ebay cheap.)

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"This has to be one of the most brilliant, simple, and truthful documents ever conceived by man." overheard at Corillian today regarding the Laws of Prototypes.

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I lot of great ideas came in the discussion about How to create a Default "Enter" Button for Forms/PostBacks.

There are a number of good solutions, here they are collected, as well as an additional one from Dino Esposito.

• Similar to my idea, add a hidden EVENTTARGET, Darrell suggests to use the ClientID:
  Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", btnSearch.ClientId) - Darrell Norton
• Jeff uses a JavaScript function and adds an onkeydown handler to the text box's attributes:
  Client-Side function:
    function AnyInput_KeyDown (e, target)
    { if ((e.which && e.which == 13) || (e.keyCode && e.keyCode == 13))
    { __doPostBack(target, ''); return false; } return true; }
  Caller: onkeydown -> "AnyInput_KeyDown(event,'btnSearch');" - Jeff Hulburt
• Brian suggests Andy Smith's DefaultButton control. 
• Gerry Heidenreich has some VB.NET code on his site that rolls the above ideas into the Page_Load.
• Phil Manijak suggests chaining events like:
  private void SearchBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  // Pass the event along, as if it were a button click.
  this.SearchButton_Click(sender, e); }
• Matt Berther has a great fix on his site that involves just adding a hidden text box with no name.
• Here's a great solution from Dino Esposito that takes the form of a Smart Text Box Server Control. PostTextBox.txt (5.57 KB) 

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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