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Programmer's Notepad 2 can be made to run without using the registry (i.e. make it portable, so you can use it on a removable hard drive / pen drive), but only with a development build. All it needs is a config.xml in its directory containing the following: <config> <userSettings path="settings" /> <storeType value="Xml" /> </config> Alternatively, this batch file can be used to create the file and copy over your settings. Create a batch file e.g. pn2local.cmd and paste in the following code: @echo off if exist config.xml goto copysettings echo ^<config^> > config.xml echo ^<userSettings path="settings" ^/^> >> config.xml echo ^<storeType value="Xml" ^/^> >> config.xml echo ^<^/config^> >> config.xml :copysettings md settings xcopy "%AppData%\Echo Software\PN2\*.*" settings\ /D /Q

removeOption, a plugin available along with my other select box manipulation ones can now take a regular expression as the parameter. This can be used to remove more than one option in one go (or even all of them).

If you read the jQuery mailing list , you may be aware that I have updated my plugins for working with select boxes . Summary of changes: addOption replaces any options with the same value (so think of it as an add/replace options plugin selectOptions selected options in addition to what was already selected, but there is now an option for it not to do this There are two new methods: copyOptions which is for copying options between select boxes ajaxAddOption allows you to add options via AJAX (i.e. could be used for create options dynamically from a server script)

ASP.NET does not directly allow you to add a WebControl after another one (i.e. you can't do MyRepeater.AddAfter(MyLiteral) to add MyLiteral after MyRepeater . These two simple functions allow you to do just that: public void AddControlBefore(Control beforeControl, Control controlToAdd) { Control container = beforeControl.NamingContainer as Control; container.Controls.AddAt(container.Controls.IndexOf(beforeControl), controlToAdd); } public void AddControlAfter(Control afterControl, Control controlToAdd) { Control container = afterControl.NamingContainer as Control; container.Controls.AddAt(container.Controls.IndexOf(afterControl) + 1, controlToAdd); }