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Those of you who grew up writing Windows software are familiar with the idea of a default button. ASP.net has the same idea, but did you know that you can have multiple default buttons on the same form? I know at first glance that doesn't seem to make sense. How can you have more than one "default" button? I have seen many javascript hacks to get a default button to click when someone presses the enter key on a form... Man, my writing skills are sucking out loud. Let's get right to it and not try to make it eloquent, as my eloquent bone seems broken today. ASP.net provides a simple solution for handling the Default Button functionality differently for different areas of the form, by using an asp:Panel con... [More]

Vista's (and now Windows 7's) stupid Pictures and Videos folder type is NEVER useful for me. Whenever I see it I am ALWAYS disappointed and frustrated. It removes Explorer's basic functionality just because my folder has a picture in it. Here's how to disable automatic folder type discovery. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/08/disable-automatic-folder-type-discovery-for-templates-in-vista/ Luckily if you like the Pictures and Videos folder type and want to use it for specific folders, then you can turn it back on, on a case by case basis. The issue here isn't that there is such a thing as a Pictures and Videos folder type; rather it is the badly implemented automatic discovery feature.