<label for=”txtUsername”>Username</label>
<input type=”text” id=”txtUsername” />

BUT there is one problem – f*%!&ing IE6 does something very stupid when you use LABEL FOR with dropdownlist boxes (SELECTS). In IE6, if you click on the label, the SELECT resets its currently selected item and reverts to the first in the list. GOD *DAMN* IT.

Anyway, I knocked up this blob of JQuery which empties the LABEL FOR with SELECTs in IE6 and below. Hope it’s useful to someone.

<!– Script to disable Label.For attributes for SELECT elements in IE6 (otherwise they reset the selected OPTION)  –>
<!–[if lte IE 6]>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
$(‘label’).each(function() {if ($(‘#’ + $(this).attr(‘for’)).attr(‘tagName’) == ‘SELECT’) $(this).attr(‘for’, ”) ;});
</script>
<![endif]–>

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html

What a great site.

So then you run the gamut of HttpContext fakery, thinking about moq, TypeMock etc – only you don’t want to go to all that trouble. Phil Haack’s HttpSimulator hoves into view but just doesn’t feel right for this particular task (although it IS uber cool). His SimulatedHttpRequest class was pretty cool but sadly the Session object was null when I referenced it.

Finally I stumbled on this post (specifically the one by radmanmm). Using the GetMockHttpSessionState() with my SimulatedHttpRequest object solved the problem. Wooot!

PS. Mr Walther’s Fake Intrinsic Objects looked pretty cool too, check them out.

CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_blah ON #YourTempTable (YourPKCol)

A quick and dirty way to do this for all tables in your DB is the sp_updatestats sproc.

1. El Gouna is a nice, safe, gated town about half an hour’s drive up the red sea coast from Hurghada.
2. The Moevenpick El Gouna is a nice hotel complex composed of several “clusters” of rooms set around a number of lagoons and pools. However, some clusters are nicer than others. We initially got put in cluster 7 in a grim room and a sewage smell outside. We complained to our Thompson rep and got moved to a great room in cluster 3.
3. Downtown El Gouna is good for supermarket shopping but poor for evening eating.
4. El Gouna Marina is very nice for evening nosh, especially Bleu Bleu restaurant.
5. The TukTuks are everywhere and cheap.
6. The Mosquitos are buggers! Bring protection.
7. You have to swim out quite a way to get to decent coral, but it is out there.
8. The purple jellyfishes are harmless.
9. The desert tour to see the bedouin camp is not worth it.
10. Hurghada is a sad, ugly post-credit-crunch disaster.
11. The Red Sea in April is lovely and warm but not overbearingly hot.

In short, lovely holiday!

public DataTable GetData(string FullPath)
{
string strPathWithoutFileName = Path.GetDirectoryName(FullPath);
string Name = Path.GetFileName(FullPath);

DataSet dsData = new DataSet();
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection conCsv = new System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection();
conCsv.ConnectionString = @”Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};Dbq=” + strPathWithoutFileName + @”;Extensions=csv;”;
conCsv.Open();

System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter oda = new System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter();
oda.SelectCommand = new System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand(“SELECT * FROM [" + Name + "]“, conCsv);

try
{
oda.Fill(dsData);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(“Csv File Read Error: ” + FullPath, ex);
}
finally
{
oda.Dispose();
conCsv.Close();
conCsv.Dispose();
}

dsData.Tables[0].TableName = Name;

return dsData.Tables[0];
}

A note on configuring the Microsoft Text Driver for your CSV file:

If you place a Schema.ini file in the same location as the CSV file, you can declaratively specify the expected columns and datatypes. See this article for info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709353.aspx

A note about System Regional Settings vs Application Culture when using the Microsoft Text Driver:

I noticed something weird when I specified a column as DateTime in my Schema.ini file. The Text Driver was reading the dates in US format (mm/dd/yy). My testing indicates that even though my ASP.NET web app was explicitly set for British culture (“en-GB” in the web.config’s globalization section), the Text Driver uses the Windows Regional And Language Options setting. Annoying eh!

Note also that if the Text Driver cannot resolve a DateTime value according the Regional Settings format, it doesn’t throw an exception. It just treats the value as Null. Yuck.

@ECHO OFF
ECHO # GENERATING “MyProject.Classes.ORM” CLASSES – THEY MUST BE CHECKED OUT FOR THIS TO WORK!
ECHO.

“C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\SqlMetal.exe” /server:localhost /database:MyProjectDB /code:MyProject.Classes\ORM\MyProjectDBContext.cs /namespace:MyProject.Classes.ORM /pluralize

ECHO # GENERATION COMPLETE – CHECK ABOVE FOR ERRORS

Might make prototyping sites easier.

http://www.mssqlcity.com/Articles/Undoc/SQL2000UndocSP.htm

Sprocs include stuff like “FOR EACH DB/TABLE DO X” and “GET QUALIFIED OBJECT NAME”.

Mucho useful. Now why the hell are they secret?