C#

g.DrawRectangle(Pens.Brown, new Rectangle(r.Location,
   new Size(r.Width - 1, r.Height - 1)); // border

r.Inflate(-1, -1); // leave a bit of free space around cell
g.FillRectangle(Brushes.Brown, r); // border
//the interior will be overpainted in the next call
r.Inflate(-1, -1);
g.FillRectangle(Brushes.Beige, r); // fill

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| # |   |   | # |
+-#-+---+---+-#-+
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| # |   |   | # |
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+-#-+---+---+-#-+
| # |   |   | # |
| ############# |
|   |   |   |   |
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Jamie Nordmeyer wrote:

AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and ActiveX

Jamie Nordmeyer wrote:

My personal favorite AJAX implementation is one called My Ajax.NET, soon to be called Anthem.NET, and is a completely free implementation. You can find it here: http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/category/my-ajax-dot-net/[^]

public class MyTestPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
      // The second param is used to name the class used in your client side code.
      // So if you expose a method called GetTable, you'd call it in your Javascript
      // like this: Callback.GetTable();
      Ajax.Manager.Register(this, "Callback");

      if (!Page.IsPostBack)
      {
         ...
      }
   }

   // Next, we define our callback methods.  They MUST be scoped as public, and you mark
   // them using the Ajax.MethodAttribute.  If you don't need the values from your server
   // controls, mark IncludeControlValuesWithCallBack as false.
   [Ajax.Method(IncludeControlValuesWithCallBack = false))]
   public int Add(int x, int y)
   {
      return x + y;
   }

   // We can return back several object types as well, including DataTable objects.
   [Ajax.Method()]
   public DataTable GetClientInfo(int clientID)
   {
      return this.ConnectToDatabaseAndRetrieveData(clientID);
   }
}

<script language="javascript">
function onSomeButtonClick()
{
   var cmb = document.getElementById('cmbClients');
   var clientID = cmb.options[cmb.selectedIndex].value;
   
   // Now we call our callback method, whose code is implemented server side.
   var dtbl = Callback.GetClientInfo(clientID);

   // We can now use our datatable as follows:
   for (var i = 0; i < dtbl.Rows.length; i++)
   {
      alert(dtbl.Rows[0].ClientName + '\n' +
      dtbl.Rows[0].Address1 + '\n' +
      dtbl.Rows[0].City  + '\n' +
      dtbl.Rows[0].State  + '\n' +
      dtbl.Rows[0].ZipCode);
   }
}
</script>