Shorties

I'm learning new stuff every day...

Use F7 key for bringing up the code window in VB.NET 2005. F5 for running/testing/debugging the program.

#Region "Name of Region" for categorising your blocks of code into separate expandable & collapsible nodes.

Use For Each loops to run through lists or classes or dictionaries & the like.

Whenever a particular section of code keeps getting reused a considerable number of times, it warrants making it into a separate subprocedure or function of its own.

Put short comment lines into parts of conditional blocks of code where nothing is done/executed. This is for future purposes, to prevent you thinking it's an error of sorts & waste time tweaking the code unnecessarily.

Event Browser Compatibility

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_compinfo.html

Event Handling & Forms Forms Forms

The long & short of it is that I'm needing to re-examine Javascript again. Something about it scares me, even though from previous experiences I've seen that it's not anywhere near being an inconquerable giant like say, Java, which I haven't ever touched at all before.

Yet, that is.

In any case, today's task involves looking into how to check a decrementing counter to decide whether a form's elements/controls (am I using the right term here?) should be disabled. Hence the need to read up on event handling.

I'm in a hurry to find code for an on load sorta event thingy, but I'm bookmarking this page to read later... It's pretty interesting:

Introduction To Events

Oh, & this one too:

GET vs. POST

Forms. The simple yet ever enduring pain of web programming...