customization

How to allow users to select their own grouping for a .NET TreeView control

I am using a treeview to display projects, tasks, time entries, and the people who are working on a project. I would like to allow the user to define a custom grouping (ie. Project->Task->Time Entries or Project->Date (of time entry)->Task->TimeEntry). The relevant groups would be Project, Task, Time Entry, and Person, with some meta...

How to add properties to users in ASP.NET MVC2?

After I have the initial ASP.NET MVC 2 website and the default Membership provider up, how do I start adding features specific to an user? Like, say, we want to let users choose their favorite products and we want to remember these choices somehow or add a favorite color property to an user? Where should these customizations go and how...

Wordpress: Create a customized role / user

Hi, I’m farely new to Wordpress but are working on putting a page together which has a very simple purpose. I’m creating it for a customer with little or none IT experience so I want to create a user he can use to login and edit his pages – and nothing more. No settings, no comments, no posts, no links, no nothing, just create, delete a...

Ruby On Rails: pluralize for other languages

I am building apps for a non-english audience. Right now, I use english nouns to name my models, yet I prefer to use native dutch ones. As the convention uses the plural of the class name for tables, I assume it is the pluralize method inside Rails (where it resides, I wouldn't know). How can I change the pluralize method and where is it...

Ways to get past the Inner-platform effect while still building highly customized web apps?

Feel free to answer the question in the title as generally as I posed it, I offer some more details and specifics below. Currently I develop and maintain a somewhat legacy business app (ASP/SQL) that is highly customizable allowing for moderate to full customization on: custom fields, forms, views, reports, actions, events, workflows, e...

Vim: Smart indent when entering insert mode on blank line?

When I open a new line (via 'o') my cursor jumps to a correctly indented position on the next line. On the other hand, entering insert mode while my cursor is on a blank line doesn't move my cursor to the correctly indented location. How do I make vim correctly indent my cursor when entering insert mode (via i) on a blank line? ...

Dynamic Data Website - Hide columns in gridview but show in details?

I have seen how you can hide a column by scaffolding. But how about hiding it from the gridview only and showing it on the details screen. Thanks! ...

Steps in subclassing UINavigationController

Hello I would like to subclass the UINavigationController to get some more freedom in regards to the appearance of the controller. I have some graphics for the different parts, bars, buttons, text etc. Looking at the UINavigationController header file I get little help, I don't know where to start out. I have never subclassed/overridd...

CustomItem in MIDP 2.1 j2me?

Can I have CustomItems on MIDP 2.1 devices. CustomItems work perfectly on MIDP 2.0 devices. Whereas, they don't seem to work on MIDP 2.1 devices. Is there any workaround for this problem? ...

Customize a custom menu in Visual Studio 2008

I recently installed Platform builder 7 by Microsoft. It is a plug-in for VS2008. The plug-in adds the following menu: I want to remove several items from this menu and I would also like to add some button from it to a toolbar. The problem is that when I do customize I only get "advanced command placeholder" shortcut for the whole bunc...

How to update digests in Android MANIFEST.MF ?

We need to enable our customers to update some components in Android application, like icon/logo, dictionary file etc. I saw the .APK can be opened like a JAR with 7-zip, and hope files can be edited/replaced there. But it is need to update MANIFEST.MF file in it, containing a digest for each .APK component' like: Manifest-Version: 1....

Customize comments in TFS

Whenever we reply to a fixed bug in TFS we add time and name in the comments section. I am looking for a way to customize this so that either we press a button or some hot-key and this is inserted automatically instead of typing everytime. ...

Suppose I want to customize the look and feel of my website for my corporate clients...

Given: I have a website that includes both ASP.NET Web Forms and Classic ASP web pages. Multiple companies are willing to pay to customize the look and feel of this website. Question: Are there any well known design-patterns, books, or online resources that detail customization best-practices? EDIT: Are ashx handlers a good way...

customising asp.net sitemap provider

hi all, My current project has a requirement to show a site menu at the top of the page (and others elsewhere) that is dependant on the users roles in the application. A user is able to modify their roles at run time (or have them modified by someone else) and as such the menu must show or hide those links. This particular site we are...

Creating a custom jQuery build?

We have a small javascript project that will be using a handful of jQuery selectors, but we don't by any means need the full jQuery package (i.e. effects). Is there any current way to get a custom build of the latest jQuery (1.4.2)? ...

Is Django admin difficult to customize?

Hi All, I have been playing for a couple of days with Django Admin to explore it, but I am still clueless of how it can be customized in the way we need. Every time I look for any help for the customization in the admin panel, what I find is, a bunch of articles on various communities and forums, explaining how to customize the templa...

Design pattern to invoke different business rules on presented UI elements

I am working on a project that is developing a website application for 3 clients. All clients are happy with the base product that we are producing. 2 of them have some slightly different requirements - about the visibility of certain controls, different data binding to dropdowns, etc. My question is - knowing that each of the 3 clients...

VS2010 modify intellisense popup order via an addin?

Is it possible to modify the order of the intellisense options shown when I hit ctrl-space? Specifically, I'd like to order them in scope, so that if I have a variable in my function that matches what I've typed so far then it goes to the top of the list. If there's a member in the class, that's next, etc. I'm just kind of sick of h...

JCalendar: how to change the foreground color of certain days?

Hello, i'm using the JCalendar v 1.3.3 component and i want to change the foreground color of certain days, by default the present days has red foreground, i want to emphatize other days with other colors. It's posible to archieve this with the present API or i have to modify the source code? ...

DotnetNuke: Account login in Custom skin development.

Hi, I am developing a skin where in which i would like to bring in the login area(similar to account login module) in to it, so that in all the pages where this skin is applied a login area would appear. How can i achieve this?.Is there any skin object for this.Please do suggest the alternatives possible through DNN. Thanks & Rega...