Telerik: Dropdown Filter on Multiple Columns

Dropdown Filter on Multiple Columns In my Telerik: Dropdown with Template article (link), I demonstrated how to configure a dropdown to display choices with multiple columns. The dropdown provides a powerful and intuitive filter feature which by default allows the user to filter choices based on what they type into the filter textbox. In this…

SSRS: Conditional Background Colors

Configuring Background Colors Based on Multiple Factors In this article I’ll demonstrate how to change the background color of cells based on multiple conditions. First, I’ll start with a series of currency values. As you can see, the values will vary widely. The user of this report will receive many pages with these types of…

MVC: Custom Model Validation

Please see my other MVC articles. Using Custom Validation on Model Properties While ASP.NET MVC provides powerful native validation, some requirements require custom routines to ensure certain model data is valid. In this artilce I’ll demonstrate how to configure a model for custom validation and provide a simple example function. First, I’ll decorate the model…

MVC: Links to External Sites

Please see my other MVC articles. Display External Links within a View Sometimes within a View, a requirement dictates the use of links to sites external to the current project. Since Html.ActionLink() doesn’t allow for a target to an external site, I satisfied the requirement using the following approach. First, I stored with each record…