Get Form by Name (2)

Private Function GetFormByName(ByVal formName As String) As Object

Dim myasm As System.Reflection.Assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()

Try
Return myasm.CreateInstance(myasm.GetName.Name.Replace(" ", "_") & "." & formName)

Catch ex As Exception
Return Nothing
End Try

End Function

Source : http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6037

Get Form by Name (1)

Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.windows.forms

'Creates form from form name - CASE SENSITIVE
Public Shared Function GetFormByName( _
ByVal formName As String) As Form

Dim assemblyName As String = _
[Assembly].GetEntryAssembly().GetName.Name.Replace(" ", "_")

Dim myType As Type = _
Type.GetType(assemblyName & "." & formName)

Return CType(Activator.CreateInstance(myType), Form)

End Function

Formatting a Date in a DataList

There are two ways to format the date in datalist of asp.net.
1. Parsing Date At ASPX page
<%#DateTime.Parse(Eval("DateColumnName").ToString()).ToString("MMM dd, yyyy")%>

2. Try this <%# Eval("EventStartDate","{0:MMMM dd, yyyy}") %> or
<%# Eval("EventStartDate","{0:d}") %>

Menu - Eliminate The Triangular Arror pointer thing - How to do it?

Problem :
I want to eliminate the little triangular arrow poinger that appears tot he
right of the menu item. Which control setting lets me do that.

Solution :

you can get rid of the images if you set:
StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False" or
DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False". To move the items one step
down you can set ShowStartingNode="False" of the sitemapdatasource.

Comment :
re:

> StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False"

That works for main menu items.

re:

> DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False".

That works for submenus.

The arrowhead can also be replaced with a different image by settinging StaticPopOutImageUrl
(or DynamicPopOutImageUrl for a submenu) and providing a URL to the image.

There's many other programmable items in the menu control.

A list ( with sample code for some ) is available at:
http://msconline.maconstate.edu/Tutorials/ASPNET2/ASPNET10/aspnet10-02.aspx

Original : http://www.codenewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webcontrols/topic16144.aspx