Busy skies

Last night In dreamed that there was a huge meteor shower. We were driving on a highway and saw one after another plane and helicoper fly past us. The jets would occasionally let a missile go which would be followed my a great explosion, presumably blowing up a large meteor. I looked up and saw lots of planes in the air.

Developer VS Project Manager

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude."
"You must be a programmer," says the balloonist. 
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?" 
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost." 
The man below says, "You must be a project manager" 
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

How to hide duplicate Column Entries GridView VS2008 using c#

The Code below will hide values of textbox and label controls with the same ID in a gridview, you should be able to modify the code easily enough to support other controls. This does however mean that you have to use TemplateFields not basic BoundFields. For example if you have a Template field and inside it you have a textbox called txtName and a Phone number field called txtPhone, you specify HideDuplicatesInColumns to "txtName,txtPhone" for example:

<cus:GridView2 runat="server" ID="grdTrainMeNonSuperSet" AutoGenerateColumns="false"

HideDuplicatesInColumns="lblExerciseShort,lblMuscleGroup" GridLines="Horizontal"

OnRowCommand="grdTrainMeNonSuperSet_RowCommand">

Before you do this you need to add this class to you appcode folder, and in the your asp.net page add a reference to it.

Example of the Reference

<%@ Register Namespace="ST.Web.Controls" TagPrefix="cus" % >

The Class

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.Configuration;

using System.Web.UI;

namespace ST.Web.Controls

{

///

/// Summary description for GridView2

///

public class GridView2 : GridView

{

public GridView2()

: base()

{

}

protected override void OnDataBound(EventArgs e)

{

base.OnDataBound(e);

}

string hideDuplicatesInColumns = string.Empty;HideDuplicatesInColumns

string[] columnsToHideDups;

public string

{

set

{

hideDuplicatesInColumns = value;

columnsToHideDups = hideDuplicatesInColumns.Split(Convert.ToChar(","));

}

get

{

return hideDuplicatesInColumns;

}

}

private int ConvertToInt(string value)

{

return Convert.ToInt32(value);

}

Dictionary watchList = new Dictionary();

protected override void OnRowDataBound(GridViewRowEventArgs e)

{

if (columnsToHideDups != null)

{

//Hide all the duplicate values in based on the selected settings

foreach (string c in columnsToHideDups)

{

Control cntrl = e.Row.FindControl(c);

string val = string.Empty;

string id = string.Empty;

string key = string.Empty;

if (cntrl is TextBox)

{

val = ((TextBox)cntrl).Text;

id = ((TextBox)cntrl).ID;

key = string.Format("{0}", id);

if (watchList.ContainsKey(key) && watchList[key] == val)

{

((TextBox)cntrl).Text = String.Empty;

continue;

}

else

{

watchList.Add(key, val);

watchList[key] = val;

}

}

if (cntrl is Label)

{

val = ((Label)cntrl).Text;

id = ((Label)cntrl).ID;

key = string.Format("{0}", id);

if (watchList.ContainsKey(key) && watchList[key] == val)

{

((Label)cntrl).Text = String.Empty;

continue;

}

else

{

watchList[key] = val;

}

}

}

}

base.OnRowDataBound(e);

}

protected override void OnRowCreated(GridViewRowEventArgs e)

{

base.OnRowCreated(e);

}

}

}