Learn MS .NET

This is another post for my own remembrance. While working with controls in ASP.NET most of the back colors use the RGB color references instead of allowing you to quickly plug in the Hexadecimal numbers to the control.  At first glance this looks to be a daunting task as there doesn’t appear to be a quick solution for this within the Color class in either VB.NET or C#. But the solution is pretty simple

VB.NET Example

  1: MyControl.BackColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FFFFFF")

C# Example

  1: MyControl.BackColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FFFFFF");

It actually becomes pretty easy after you find it.  There are some pretty elegant solutions to this problem on the NET but a lot of them don’t take advantage to what Microsoft has already built into the .NET Framework.

I’ve been slowly adding things that I run across that I need to remember to my blog so that I can find them at a later time. As well as allowing other people with the same issue to find a solution for themselves.

  1: typeof(Widget)

is the equivalent in VB.NET of

  1: GetType(Widget)

Now the next time I start looking for this I’ll have it on the blog and easily searchable.

Shaun Walker creator of DotNetNuke is featured this week on Twit.tv.  In episode 41 of their weekly podcast they speak with him about DotNetNuke and the future of this framework on the ASP.NET framework.  You can find the the podcast on iTunes or at the Twit site – www.twit.tv/FLOSS.

This release comes with a number of module updates including the following:

• Documents 04.01.00
• Events 04.00.02
• Help 03.00.02
• HTML 04.08.01
• Links 04.00.01
• NewsFeeds 04.00.00
• Repository 03.01.15
• Survey 04.50.00
• UserDefinedTable 03.05.01
• Wiki 04.01.00

• FCK Html Editor Provider 02.00.02
• AD Authentication Provider 01.00.04

This new version can be dowloaded from the DotNetNuke website.