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	<title>Programming By A Tool</title>
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	<description>Whelps! Left Side! Left Side! Minus 50 DKP!</description>
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		<title>Child IFrame Page Interacting with Parent Page&#8230; Yeah I went there.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Example here.
File this under "Why?" but I wanted to see if a child could talk to a parent and then receive information back from the parent to update itself with.  As usual, my lack of intelligent wording probably has you scratching your head... if you do that.  Personally I don't get that expression [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/child-iframe-page-interacting-with-parent-page-yeah-i-went-there/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Latest Innovation Is Astounding, A Real Game Changer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know how they did it, but they made the world's first shrink ray.  Amazing.

Related PostsNo Related Posts]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pointless/apples-latest-innovation-is-astounding-a-real-game-changer/</link>
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		<title>Get the jQuery DatePicker to Work With jQuery Modal Dialog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being that I am the man, I thought I would share this little thingy with you because... well I'm the man.
So here's the issue:  You have a date picker, a modal dialog, and you can't see the calendar when you click on the icon and/or textbox.  First thought, 'WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME???!?!' [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/get-the-jquery-datepicker-to-work-with-jquery-modal-dialog/</link>
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		<title>ByATool.com Is Looking For Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, you read that right.  ByATool.com is looking to add one to three writers with various IT backgrounds.  This is not a job, it is simply an avenue for you to get your work read.  We want to know what YOU want to write about.  It's no fun to be given a topic to write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/wordpress/byatool-is-looking-for-writers/</link>
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		<title>Dear Microsoft,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it takes a whole paragraph to explain what "continue" means,  maybe you  should rethink the button text and/or layout.
Sincerely,
Sean
Related PostsNo Related Posts]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/uncategorized/dear-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>jQuery Modal Dialog : Hide That Stupid X Button / Windows Close Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is quick one, so hold on to your... whatever.
Want to get rid of that X at the top right of the modal "Control"?  Well here it is:  (The bold part, moron)
     jQuery('#WaitingDiv').dialog({
          autoOpen: false,
      [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/ui/jquery-modal-dialog-hide-that-stupid-x-button-windows-close-button/</link>
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		<title>jQuery &#8211; Check All Checkboxes Toggle Method Thingy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here's a quick on for all you boys and girls... and anything else I might have missed.
Say you want to check all check boxes in a grid or whatever, but you want it to toggle.  So if if it's time to check all, all get checked and then the next time the button [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/ui/jquery-check-all-checkboxes-toggle-method-thingy/</link>
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		<title>jQuery Validation: Adding Errors to the Error Containter&#8230; With Love!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Hello again, my wonderful audience, I have something great and fun planned for this post. If you read this post you might have been left wondering how to add custom messages to the error holder. It's ok if you did, there's nothing wrong with being confused all the time. It's what makes you so adorable.
Say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/jquery-validation-adding-errors-to-the-error-containter-with-love/</link>
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		<title>Custom Data Annotations With MVC: How to Check Multiple Properties at One Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so maybe you read this post and you're thinking to yourself, "I wonder if Diet Dr. Pepper really does taste like regular Dr. Pepper" which of course is silly because the ads clearly say it does. Now you should be asking yourself, "How do I check if two properties have the same value on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/mvc/custom-data-annotations-with-mvc-how-to-check-multiple-properties-at-one-time/</link>
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		<title>Data Annotations, MVC, and Why You Might Like Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you were like me before I knew what Data Annotations were, you most likely would be thinking, "What are Data Annotations?".  Well I'm glad I can read your mind and therefore I am glad you asked.
Now the fun part about this post is that I might have to admit I was wrong. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/data-annotations-mvc-and-why-you-might-like-them/</link>
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		<title>jQuery Grab Bag &#8211; Whole bunch of jQuery Functionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You could look at this post as a self serving block that I will use to save stuff I don't want to remember later.
Or you could see it as a knowledge transfer that you the reader can learn from because I am a generous and giving tool.
Whatever, I really don't care.  I won't sleep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/ui/jquery-grab-bag-whole-bunch-of-jquery-functionality/</link>
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		<title>jQuery Validation &#8211; How to Use to Get Rid Of Even The Toughest Stains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you want to use jQuery validation, huh?
What is it?  Something that was added to the holy jquery site and is an easy way to validate input from users. Now this should in no way take over for server side validation, but it helps to at least catch a few things without having to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/jquery-validation-how-to-use-to-get-rid-of-even-the-toughest-stains/</link>
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		<title>Off Topic Sunday: Does Not Liking Quentin Tarantino Make Me  A Mutant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COMPLETELY NOT PROGRAMMING RELATED

Any time I declare this I always get the same look people had when that one dude in Total Recall took off his glove and had that weird chicken wing arm thing.  I can't think of many directors that get the same free pass as he does for making, in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pointless/off-topic-sunday-does-not-liking-quentin-tarantino-make-me-a-mutant/</link>
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		<title>Random Add-On &#8211; Automapper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you've bothered reading my posts in the past, and don't worry cause I haven't, you might have seen me express my rule about not wanting to use third party stuff. Well things change. Actually they don't, as I'm not bending the rule because I'm becoming a better person, just more lazy. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/add-on/random-add-on-automapper/</link>
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		<title>State List in Dictionary Form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tired of having to look this up from time to time, so I'm putting this here for my own use.  If you get something out of it, good for you.  In the end, I really don't care.

    public Dictionary GetAllStates()
    {
      if(_stateList [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pointless/state-list-in-dictionary-form/</link>
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		<title>Back, Back from the Dead&#8230; Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Andre, the only person I know to argue with a toaster and lose, has mostly completed moving the site over to the new hosting.  Issues?  Well there are some lost comments.  It's sad, I know.  Your 15 minutes of fame just got washed away like sand on a body of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pointless/back-back-from-the-dead-again/</link>
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		<title>.Net 4.0 Beta 2 Entity Framework &#8211; How To Set Up Complex Types, Now With More POCO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So something I've seen but just have now conquered is the whole complex type thing in Entity Framework.  Not only that, but with the cool new Persistence Ignorance thing all the kids are talking about.  (And boy am I glad there's a new kind of ignorance on this site now.)  You might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/net-4-0-beta-2-entity-framework-how-to-set-up-complex-types-now-with-more-poco/</link>
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		<title>.Net 4.0 Beta 2 Entity Framework &#8211; Many To One and POCO / INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the next step in the New Entity Framework saga was to make a many to one relationship and get it to save. After all, with the last version I had far more issues with many to one than any other kind of relationship. Turns out, the steak is still in tact.
Taking the structure from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/net-4-0-beta-2-entity-framework-many-to-one-and-poco-insert-statement-conflicted-with-the-foreign-key-constraint-issue/</link>
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		<title>Sql 2008 &#8211; You have either made changes to a table that can&#8217;t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've run into this issue:
Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can't be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created.
Normally I don't like copy/paste [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/sql-issue/sql-2008-you-have-either-made-changes-to-a-table-that-cant-be-re-created-or-enabled-the-option-prevent-saving-changes-that-require-the-table-to-be-re-created/</link>
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		<title>.Net 4.0 Beta 2 Entity Framework &#8211; How To Start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just recently turned my laptop into a 4.0 workstation since it is kind of expendable and I won't feel inclined to nerd rage if it gets tooled. With this step forward, I decided that I probably won't be doing much with the old Entity Framework version since the new one is supposed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/lessons/net-4-0-beta-2-entity-framework-how-to-start/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC:  Quick Overview of Controller Structure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, that's a mouthful far as titles go, but couldn't think of a better way to say it.  Now what I'm about to go through is the "system" I have found that works pretty well when it comes to structuring controllers knowing that there will be asynchronous operations.  Why is that a big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pontification/asp-net-mvc-quick-overview-of-controller-structure/</link>
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		<title>Do It Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question came up about an earlier post on how I construct my grids shown in a few examples.



Now as you can see, it looks like a table, acts like a table, so it must be a table right?  Well it isn't.  It's actually done with divs and styles, something I've worked hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pontification/do-it-yourself/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC: Attibute to Check if Route Value Exists and&#8230; and Means Something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for a roller coaster ride around the insanity that is me. You might actually find it amusing but most likely you'll just leave sick or underwhelmed. Don't feel bad if you do, you wouldn't be the first and, thanks to somehow being impervious to Natural Selection, you won't be the last. Be proud.
Here's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pointless/asp-net-mvc-attibute-to-check-if-route-value-exists-and-and-means-something/</link>
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		<title>jQuery: Find All Checked Checkboxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is sort of a repeat of another post, but I figured it has some use on its own.
Say you have this:
  &#60;div&#62;
    &#60;input type="checkbox" name="JqueryIdList" value="1"  /&#62;
    &#60;input type="checkbox" name="JqueryIdList" value="2" /&#62;
    &#60;input type="checkbox" name="JqueryIdList" value="3" /&#62;
    &#60;input type="checkbox" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/ui/jquery-find-all-checked-checkboxes/</link>
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		<title>jQuery, Hidden Elements, and Why At Times I Hate It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is your situation, or at least it might be someday if you use jQuery:
You have a comment area that allows a user to view comments. Now this comment area is created using javascript (Read jQuery) only. When a user clicks on some kind of pager, a method is called to get a list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/pontification/jquery-hidden-elements-and-why-at-times-i-hate-it/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC How To Handle Multiple Checkboxes With Views/Actions&#8230; jQuery too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a note, this is kind of an add on to this post but it's a much more simple (HOSTED) example and also deals with doing the whole check box thing with jQuery.
So one of the things I ran into some what recently was a grid... a grid with a death wish and a thirst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/mvc/asp-net-mvc-how-to-handle-multiple-checkboxes-with-viewsactions-jquery-too/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC:  Multiple Checkboxes and Strongly Typed Views</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This might be a first, but I actually stole this from myself off Stackoverflow. Posted it and thought it might be useful to share with the 1 live person who reads this blog and the 90 other bots... And I'm not sure about the 1 live person.
So here's the situation, it's late, you've got a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/mvc/asp-net-mvc-multiple-checkboxes-and-strongly-typed-views/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC: PhotoView Lessons &#8211; Getting Around A Master Page Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Original About PhotoView Here
I've started to take the PhotoView site and move it toward a full blow site application. Not sure why, but then again why shouldn't I? Don't have a good reason? Pbbbbbbtttt jog off.
One thing I ran into yesterday while working on it, as I've added authentication to the site (An update I'll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/photoview/asp-net-mvc-photoview-lessons-getting-around-a-master-page-model/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC:  Show Picture Dynamically Using jQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ready for the next step to this guy? Can't sleep lately because of it? Ignoring your day to day tasks due to anticipation? Well wait no longer. I have just the cure for you. In fact, steady use has shown to improve both self esteem and popularity. Behold Jquepictuax:
function showPicture(imageHolder, id)
{
  jQuery(imageHolder).attr("src", "/Photo/ShowPhoto/" + [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/mvc/asp-net-mvc-show-picture-dynamically-using-jquery/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC: Upload Image to Database and Show Image &#8220;Dynamically&#8221; Using a View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oddly enough this came about from me wanting to do this, figuring it out, and then deciding not to bother with it. So there's a possibility this will happen to you too. Well that's not completely true. The first half where I was uploading and showing from a database, but showing an image through a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://byatool.com/mvc/asp-net-mvc-upload-image-to-database-and-show-image-dynamically-using-a-view/</link>
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