Two weeks ago I decided to prep my development VMWare Workstation in anticipation of the yet-to-be-announced SharePoint 2010 beta 2 release. After some futile attempts at installing W2K8 server, I realized that it was time to upgrade my VM software...

I recently had a DropDownList being pre-populated from a database. I also wanted to insert "Select" at the top of the list and make it a required field. Googling this yielded much misinformation for what turned out to be pretty simple to solve in the...