Hi,

We have all talked about some of the new features in the Excel 2007. But there is one feature that has been missed in the heap of all the new big features. The features on the extensibility.

Excel 2003 had some restriction on the size of data it can work with (Believe me I have faced it when need to present reports with huge amount of data.). The amount of data that excel 2007 can take is much more than excel 2003. Here is a small comparison between the 2.

Features                      Excel 2003    Excel 2007

Maximum Columns                   256     

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The control has some new argument over the dropdown list. There is a new property called DataGroupField. When we are binding the data then we need to asign the value of the group field. Also the data need to be sorted on the group itself otherwise the same group will be show twice (I have not added sorting of the data based on the group in the control as yet. But waiting to see if this will be required.).
You can also add the items one by one. In this case you need to provide the group of the item also. The add methods take and object of type OptionListItem. The optionListItem takes three argument, ItemName, Value and the group. (I know you will have the question why not the type ListItem. The reason
                

Hi,

Here is a big update on my previous Post. I found this news at the Dave’s Blog and thought of sharing it.

The date 27 Feb 2008 has been kept for the release of the three big products (Visual studio 2008 Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008). This does not mean it will release on the same day. The release might be before that. According to the blog Microsoft is trying to make the release today itself. 

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Vikram

Hi,

Many a times we have a requirement where we are showing data in a dropdown list. Many of the times the data belongs to a particular group. But there is no way to show the group in the dropdown list. Hence there is no way for the user to know which group (or category) the data belongs to.

Most of the time we use two dropdown list to show the data. When the user selects the category dropdown we populate the sub category of the product itself. (We can also use Ajax to populate the second dropdown, but that’s not in the scope of this post). But this solution is still not the best as the user still cannot look at one list of products (or sub category) and understand which category it belongs to.

So what to do if I want the user to see the entire product list in a list control and also show him group it belongs to. Well I

Hi,

A few days back, I was working with some FTP command. Then I realized that many people had asked me to provide some help on the FTP commands. Hence I decided to write a post on some of the common FTP commands for windows with their small explanation.

append - Appends a local file to a file on the remote computer.
ascii - Sets the file transfer type to ASCII, the default.
bell - Toggles a bell to ring after each file transfer command is completed (default = OFF).
binary - Sets the file transfer type to binary.
bye - Ends the FTP session and exits ftp.
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