C# – Matt Cullinan

ASP.NET WebForms – Use ICallbackEventHandler to lighten the load of PostBacks

Much has been written over the years regarding the drawbacks of ASP.NET and how MVC/SPAs solve many of these problems, so there’s not much to rehash there. However, if you’re stuck working with older technology, there is a handy tool to make your ASP.NET WebForms site more responsive. Implementing the ICallbackEventHandler interface in your WebForms

XML to Key Value Pairs (Works well for exporting data to Excel)

On a recent project, I had to provide export functionality for a web grid’s data source that contained wildly varying data structures. The XML structure contained anywhere between 1 to 10 levels of nesting and we needed to be able to export this data into an Excel or comma separate values file. This code will show