Old Dog Learns New Tricks

Welcome to my little "doghouse" here on AspAlliance. My goal is to bring you both new tricks, and maybe some things you had wondered if they could even be done.
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Articles:

8/17/2003 -Maintain Scroll Position in a DIV Element This article describes a technique for maintaining scroll position across postbacks within a DIV or other element on a page. The method is useful for those cases where you are using a DIV tag to add scrollbars to a DataGrid or other data list type of control. [Demo] [Source]

8/24/2003 -Putting the Datagrid on a Diet First of two articles on reducing the amount of Viewstate used by a read-only Datagrid. Updated: 8/25/2003

8/31/2003 - Putting the Datagrid on a Diet, Part Two Part Two shows you how to reduce the Viewstate used by an editable Datagrid. [Sample Source for both articles]

9/7/2003 - How to Share User Controls Across Applications Early attempts at sharing User Controls across applications did not work for various reasons. Here is a method that does work.