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Programming ASP.NET 3.5

Errata for Programming ASP.NET 3.5

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed, PDF Page 141
Code for DropDownList

The ddlAlign DropDownList is missing a ListItem that should appear between the items for BaseLine and TextTop:
<asp:ListItem Text="Middle" />

Also: The page displayed on p. 143 does not match the page that will be produced if the code on p. 141 is typed in directly. This seems important since the goal of the example is to demonstrate how controls will line up with one another.

 Chris Schnaars  Apr 30, 2011 
PDF Page 427
Line commencing - Info.AppendFormat("<p>Using SelectedRow Email......

Poor quality example of HTML, which would be misleading to any novice. You have an opening HTML <p> but no matching closing </p>.

 PSO57  Sep 07, 2010 
PDF Page 441
DataListCustomRows.aspx commencing on this page

I'm afraid I have found this exercise not at all easy to understand and at times I am wondering what you are doing and why. The exercise lacks clarity of description for me. My question is regarding the calls to DataBind() in the event code. You have called it on a number of occasions either as DataList1.DataBind() or just DataBind(), with no explanation as to why the difference and I don't find it obvious.

 PSO57  Sep 07, 2010 
PDF Page 444
Paragraph commencing "Updating a record."

In this paragraph you talk about adding an UPDATE command and adding an EditItemTemplate, but you have already covered this in the instructions on page 441.

 PSO57  Sep 07, 2010 
PDF Page 445
DataList1_UpdateCommand code at the bottom of the page

The string that you search for using the FindControl method for NameStyle should be "NameStyleCheckBox" not "NameStyleTextBox".

 PSO57  Sep 08, 2010 
PDF Page 454
Figure 8-24

I have VS2008 Express edition and I do not get the same ListView Tasks display. On mine, Configure ListView... and Current View: with the dropdown are missing. Any ideas why?

 PSO57  Sep 09, 2010