I am currently living in Phoenix, AZ. since June of 2005. It has been a great place to live and hope to enjoy many more years here. I love living and working in Downtown Phoenix.

I am reminded why I can withstand the summers because fall, winter and spring are truly amazing.

I started going mountain bike riding again. I hadn’t went in years and recently found that there are a lot of great trails to ride within 15-20 minutes of downtown. It is also a great way to get in some exercise.

Lots of restaurants are opening in downtown Phoenix as well. Within the last 6 months new restaurants I have tried are Humble Pie, Perc Coffee and Rice Paper. There are more I just haven’t made time to check them out yet.

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If you need to get the last time that content was modified in a SharePoint site there is a SPSite and SPWeb property to get that information.

SPSite thisSite = new SPSite();
DateTime.FromFileTime(thisSite.LastContentModifiedDate.ToFileTimeUtc());

This can be helpful in writing a web part or code for displaying site in a web application not modified in a specified time.

Happy Coding!

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If you are using sorting and paging in a SPGridView needing to persist the ViewState can be necessary on postback.  I created a custom SPMenuField where cliient side scripts would change an SPListItem.  The menu column needed to update based on the changes to stay accurate.  If a custom sort had been performed once posted back the default sort would apply.  On the onclientscriptclick method after your first javascript method include:

"javascript:__doPostBack('" + SPGridView.ClientID + "', '');";

Utilizing this method performs a postback and tells the system the SPGridView that sent the postback and keeping the ViewState intact and updating the custom menus with required changes.

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