Many companies come to Delphic Sage because they need a website to deliver a message to their audience, whether that message is to sell a product, build a brand identity, showcase their reputation or simply because "everyone needs a website these days". If you are promoting your company or selling your product to multiple audiences, before you build a website, you need to identify your audiences and develop personas. Personas tell the story of your users and help your web development/design team identify the paths of the users and the goals of the website.

Our offices are closed as we try to deal with yet another couple feet of snow here in Philadelphia. Expect to see some good blog posts as we (except Mark S.) work from home.

We'll be back in the office (I think - it's supposed to snow all day into the night) tomorrow. Till then, think spring, think spring, think spring.

UPDATE February 11: We're still down and out. Maybe tomorrow? Please Mother Nature?

I recently became aware of a construct in C# and ASP.NET that will solve all of your property binding problems. As a special case I'll examine how the Umbraco Macro is buggy in this regard.

Current Methods of Programmatically Specifying Control Properties

There are a few ways that everyone knows how to specify control properties at runtime in ASP.NET, with varying success. There's C#:

ctlMyControl.Property = "Property Value";

There's the data binding expression:

<asp:DataBoundControl Value='<%# Eval("DataItem")%>' />

These methods may not always work in your situation.  Find out when they won't work and how to fix them by reading on...