Zebra Striping in reports
We can do several things to improve the reading of tables in reports. One common trick is to have different visual treatments for alternating rows, which I call Zebra Striping. Programming it When you want to program this, the easiest way is to iterate through a collection and use the modulo operator to determine if you’re in an even or [...]
My applications and tools on Windows7
I have recently installed Windows 7 on mine development laptop and I really like it. It’s so much better than Vista. After a clean install of Windows 7, I install the following applications I always use. Standard application and tools Opera My main web browser, although Chrome almost made me change. Biggest issue with Chrome is not saving the zoom [...]
TyTN II
Last week I got my new phone, the TyTN II. It’s the successor of my previous phone, the Qtek S100, which I enjoyed much. The reason for me to choose this phone, is that I like Window Mobile, because of it’s perfect integration with Outlook and Exchange. The TyTN II is one of the best Windows Mobile phone on the [...]
How setting the Fill Factor resulted in a out of space error
Normally when you set the Fill Factor on a index you specify the percentage of space on the page to be filled with data. So setting it to 99%, means 1% of free space remains on the pages. This is what I wanted for some tables, so I created a Maintenance Plan to be run in the weekend and went [...]
