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Saving server control properties to ViewState with custom attributes

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:15:47 GMT

Here's a little tip for using .NET custom attributes to make a server control's ViewState property into a single line of code. Save yourself some boring repetitive coding and make the language do the work instead.

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:16:02 GMT

Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported.

Strongly Typed Dynamic User Controls

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:11:24 GMT

A short way to display and consume strongly typed user controls.

Tag property without inheritance

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:46:04 GMT

The article show how to add support for Tag property without using inheritance

6 free online editors for your asp.net project

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:16:04 GMT

A list of web editors that can be easily embedded in your asp.net projects

How to easily insert row in GridView with SqlDataSource?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:33:30 GMT

Asp.Net 2.0 GridView control is very powerful control. Developers at Microsoft really did a great job when designing it. Its like Swiss Army knife for selecting, editing, sorting, paging and displaying data. Combined with various DataSource controls (ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource) it helps you execute most of your Read, Update and Delete operations without writing a single line of code. Off course, nothing is perfect. For example, creating new data is is one common task that is not so simple to accomplish with GridView. Let see how we can easily insert new rows of data using GridView and SqlDataSource...

The Infragistics' user controls library review

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:18:05 GMT

All my late .NET projects had a mandatory, common requirement: the Infragistics NetAdvantage control library. I have been using it since the 6.1 version came out, over one year of development period, on six different .NET projects. Considering this, I believe I have enough experience with this user control library to highlight all the goods and the beds that come out from it.

The Infragistics' user controls library review

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:18:05 GMT

Workaround: Infragistics column chart with columns having same height

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:14:03 GMT

The Infragistics NetAdvantage has pretty much bugs almost on every release. Considering the NetAdvantage 7.x releases, it is not possible to render column charts with all columns having same heights. Here is a workaround for this issue

How to: Enable zooming on Infragistics composite charts

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:09:06 GMT

To do this on a regular UltraChart chart layout is not a difficult thing but when we consider the composite charts it seems to be not supported. Well, this is not true. Actually we use the same properties to do it excepting that for the composite chart those properties are not shown by IntelliSense.

How to: Create new chart types with Infragistics Ultrachart

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:59:42 GMT

The Infragistics NetAdvantage 7.3 release came out with a new event for the Ultrachart user control. The FillSceneGraph event was provided to help those who want to change the chart's elements right before firing the Paint event. Using this new event we can create new chart types that are not supported by Infragistics, by default.

Visual Studio Tools for Windows Live - February CTP available

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:06:13 GMT

If you've been using the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio, the February 2008 CTP has been released. See the notes here: https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7901&SiteID=505&wa=wsignin1.0 So what's different? Messenger Chat Control has been added Depenency on ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions has been REMOVED. CTP is compatible with Silverlight 2.0 SDK The site is context sensitive so click on Downloads to get the list of builds available for download or go here: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=505

Adding Auto Format for ASP.NET Custom Controls Design Time

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add Auto Format.. link in the Smart Tag of the ASP.NET web controls, to give the user of the control a variety of different styles in the design time.

Creating a transparent Panel in .NET

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:01:02 GMT

Today I wanted to create a transparent Panel-Control in .NET in order to superimpose it on the WebBrowser Control in order to record click events. The goal was to code a simple macro recorder for websites. Unfortunatelly the .NET framework does not allow (in an easy way) to make a control fully transparent. So it was back to the good ol' winuser.h and the extended window styles. Namely 0x00000020L or as it is better known WS_EX_TRANSPARENT.

Ajax Control Toolkit - Multipart Series Article

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:01:02 GMT

A multi-part series article on Ajax Control Toolkit.

Stable SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition Released

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:16:05 GMT

.NET Edition of the one of the most popular Open Source web based WYSIWYG editor controls has been released. Industry unique multi-document tabbed WYSIWYG editor is finally available to .NET developers. Includes designer support for Visual Studio 2005.

Dynamically adding controls to ASPX pages (web forms) and assigning ev

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:13 GMT

Although I've seen a lot of articles describing how to dynamically add controls to a Web Form, few mention even a little hint to how you can make event handlers actually WORK with dynamically-added controls. This article may seem (and probably is) a beginner-level one, but I think it's essential to cover this issue.

SPAW Editor .NET Edition v.2 Released

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:45:05 GMT

.NET Edition of SPAW Editor v.2 - open-source web based HTML WYSIWYG editor control - has been released. v.2 adds unique tabbed multi-document interface, floating/shared toolbars, support for all major browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari), designer support for VS2005 and many more.

The Ruby Connector : Free .NET to Ruby Control

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:25:35 GMT

The Ruby Connector is a drag-and-drop control which enables .NET programs to communicate with Ruby programs. Using the Ruby Connector, you can: - Create visual front-ends to Ruby programs using the Visual Studio form designer. - Interact with the Ruby interpreter in your own applications in much the same way as you can interact with the Ruby Console in Ruby In Steel. - Start or stop the Ruby interpreter at will and pass expressions from your .NET program to be evaluated by Ruby. - Create 'hybrid' applications in which a .NET program runs simultaneously with a Ruby program and data is exchanged from one to the other

ASP.NET AJAX Data Controls (GridView, Pager, Repeater)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:31:04 GMT

The purpose of this project is to Develop data controls such as GridView, DataList, Repeater, DetailsView, FromView, ObjectDataSource on top of Microsoft Ajax Framework for Client Centric Development model. Since the Asp.net version of these controls does not have clientside object model thus it is not possible to to bind/update data from/by a WebService. The Project is still in development and contains few prototypes of the following controls: GridView, Pager, Repeater.

Easily Test Custom Controls Inside of Visual Studio

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:16:01 GMT

Here's a quick way easily test and debug your custom WinForms controls right inside of Visual Studio without having to launch your entire application.

Free WinForms Toolkit Released

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:46:02 GMT

This toolkit of free WinForms controls provides the Office 2007 look and feel for all the controls including a DataGridView, RadioButton, CheckBox and much more.

Custom "All or Nothing" Required Validator web control in C#

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:06:10 GMT

C# code for an ASP.NET required validator web control that requires a specified set of controls to be all populated, or all empty, as a group. It inherits from the RequiredFieldValidator ASP.NET class, so it essentially works the same way, it just treats the set of controls you specify as if they were one control (in the sense of requirement).

Rendering a Control to a String

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:16:02 GMT

This is a really handy little function for rendering a control to a string. Really handy if you want to pass back rendered HTML from a StaticPageMethod or WebService.

Good Practice For Working With ASP.NET Controls

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:01:01 GMT

A good practice that I'm using when working with ASP.NET controls that saves me a lot of work.