Rob's comment in his "home server" thread is on-target for me, too -- when I have a technical quandary, I bring it here, and I never fail to get an answer (or a dozen answers ).  And I have a quandary now.
In addition to my "real" work at my new job, I've been picking up a little ASP.NET on the side -- one of the tools I use in the course of my day is a web-based manager for the website content processes I oversee, written in-house in C# and ASP.NET, which is now my code to tweak and refine to fit my needs.  It revolves around a GridView which is dynamically bound to a datasource in the page's PageLoad event, its contents determined by a SQL query that is generated by clicking on/selecting options on the page itself before hitting a "refresh" button.
What I'd like to do is add column-sorting to this GridView.  I've already learned that if you don't bind the GridView to the data source at design time, the grid's built-in sorting functionality just doesn't happen.  My admittedly crude and primitive efforts haven't gotten me very far.  I've tried to assign handlers for onclick events to the columns as they are first accessed through the grid's RowDataBound event, but the results seem to require javascript functions in the page to handle those events instead of a C# method in the codebehind.  And it doesn't seem I can use those functions to call the C# sorting method without a rather odd and involved option that I can't seem to make work anyway.
So...  does anyone have any advice to offer?  Am I overlooking something obvious?  Is there a clever hack to get around the late binding limitation?  Should I look for a third-party grid component?
Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

(Amazing how often I think of this forum as a tech resource...)

I need to set up an internet-connected server at home so that I can make some files available. Now, when I think "server," I think "2U rack-mounted box connected to the SAN and backup tape library, with firewalls between it and the Internet." That's overkill for what I want here.

I'll need to set this up so that only people with a password to be able to download files. A web server, or something that's equally as easy for a non-technical person to use, appears to be indicated here. I assume a firewall of some sort is also necessary - the firewall in most DSL "modems" is designed for incoming traffic, not outgoing traffic. While a FTP server, a wiki back-end (preferably the same one that FenWiki uses), and a VPN host (I have a static IP address, but nobody else in the possible VPN does) would be nice, they're future projects, not essentials at the moment.

I don't yet know what OS is going to be on this box - recommendations there would also be appreciated, but no OS-wars, please. The hardware will be a PC out of my spare-parts box, so definitely not cutting-edge. Or even "trailing-edge," probably.

While a turnkey solution would be considered - time is tight and I'm busy - "free" trumps "easy" here, and I do have security concerns about turnkey solutions in general.

What do I need, and where do I get it?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

You might want to write them a very special letter right away:  they've slipped a "forced arbitration" clause into their terms of use that takes away your right to sue them or participate in class action suits against them.  And the only way to opt out of it is in writing, with a real signature, mailed to their litigation department.
More information here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Thought this might interest some of you.

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For the second week in a row I've utterly beaten my personal best in a Portsmouth round. I've been trying to beat 550 (out of a possible maximum of 600) for years.
Last week I shot 559, including 29 golds.
This week I shot 575, with 39 golds.
This included the end below.
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Not exactly Fanfiction - but a long time  favourite Kiwi Internet Author of mine, G. Howell - has finally self-published his Series to Amazon Kindle:
Light on Shattered Water

Highly recommended!

Edit: 14/7/13

The next book in the Series is out on Amazon : 

Storms over Open Fields

Useful when trapped on small rainy islands...

Quote:My lovely horse, running through the field
Where are you going, with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?

I want to shower you with sugar lumps, and ride you over fences
Polish your hooves every single day, and bring you to the horse dentist

My lovely horse, you're a pony no more
Running around with a man on your back, like a train in the night...

http://www.youtube.com/v/WKpCM5mRBiY?ve ... n_US&rel=0
(For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People
Joss Stone
Hey, oh ah, mmm
Ha ha
Hey now
For God's sake, got to give more power to the people

For God's sake, give more power to the people

There's some people up there hoggin' everything

Tellin' lies and givin' alibis about the people's money and things

And if they gonna throw it away, you might as well give some to me

Yeah they seen and heard it, but they never had a misery

There some people who are starvin' to death

Never knew but only hate us, and they never had happiness

If you don't have enough to eat, how can you think of love

You don't have the time to care; it's crime you're guilty of
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people

For God's sake, give more power to the people

Cut this jive and see who's got the power

When they run out of it, the world's gonna be a ghost

They know we're not satisfied, so we begin to holler

Makin' us a promise so they throw in a few more dollars

There's no price for happiness, there's no price for love

Up goes the price of livin', and you're right back where you was

So whatever you got, just be glad you got it

Now we're gonna get on up and get some more of it.

For God's sake, got to give more power to the people

For God's sake, gonna give more power to the people

For God's sake, oh, you got to give more
Please, tell 'em what you think about it
Yeah
For God's sake, don't leave it too late, heh
For God's sake, gonna give more power to the people
For God's sake, aren't you listening to the people, yeah
Listen up, it's getting to ya
Its the power, yeah
For God's sake, give more power to the people
Please come on now, open up your ears
Mmm, hmm
Mmm
Give more power to the people
For God's sake
For God's sake
You really 'ought to give it now
Hey yeah
Oh, give more power to the people
Mmm, give it

Give the people in Doug's Area of Effect powers based upon that person's personal god/goddess. You have someone that follows a healing god/goddess you get a healing power. You follow a war like/evil god/goddess you get that type of power. Each power is unique to each person. If a person does not follow a god/goddess that person gets a power based upon the most commonly followed god/goddess of the others in the Area of Effect (whether they want them or now.) Whether this is actually calling upon the gods/goddesses of the people or just what they think would be up to Bob. If it was a god/goddess I'd think this would either be a never play or last resort play song.

So, what is this about, and why is it in the progress box?

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