No Empty Selector in jQuery

submitted by rstrahl 4 days, 20 hours ago

west-wind.com — One thing that bugs me about jQuery selectors is that empty or null selectors return the HTML document object, rather than an empty jQuery object. This has bitten me on a number of occasions and requires some read more...

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LINQ Farm: Preserving Formatting with LINQ to XML

blogs.msdn.com — In a previous post, you saw how to work with line numbers when using LINQ to XML to read a file. This post continues in the same vein, but this time the focus is on how to: Read in an XML file with an arbitrary format, and then write it back out to disk in exactly the same format; Read in an XML file with an arbitrary format, and write it back out with standard formatting. Some scenarios where you might need this functionality include reading a document from one location and writing it to another location, or reading in a document, editing it, and writing it back out with new data, but the same format. read more...

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LINQ Farm: LINQ to XML and Line Numbers

blogs.msdn.com — There are times when it is helpful to know the line number of a node in an XML file. Reporting the line number of a node can be a helpful to users, particularly if you want to report an error. It can also be convenient to search for a node by line number, but that can, of course, be a very risky endeavor, as documents can be modified accidentally, and their line numbers changed without notice. read more...

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Client Script Resources in ASP.NET Controls revisited

submitted by rstrahl 28 days, 17 hours ago

west-wind.com — Embedding script resources as part of ASP.NET Control development is tricky business and requires a bunch of options to ensure that script code loads correctly and maybe more importantly allows the page developer to decide whether the resources should be used at all. Here are a few thoughts and some work in progress on how I deal with script resources in my controls. read more...

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jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

published 1 month, 3 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 1 month, 3 days ago

west-wind.com — When building AJAX applications that send client form content to the server, ViewState and EventValidation fields can get in the way. Using jQuery you can make short work skipping over these fields and send only the raw POST data to the server. read more...

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Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) using ASP.NET MVC's AntiForg

blog.codeville.net — Steve Sanderson covers an attack that is not as well known as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks called Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and some helpers in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 that can help mitigate the risk. read more...

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F# September 2008 CTP Released!

published 1 month, 5 days ago, submitted by cls2deg 1 month, 6 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the F# September 2008 CTP Release, launched via the new MSDN F# Developer Center. This release represents an important step in the evolution of the F# language as we progress it towards a fully supported language for the .NET platform. A huge thank you to both the F# team and the community members who've helped us trial earlier versions of this release and given us so much excellent feedback. read more...

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Accessing a SafeArray Result from a COM Call in C#

submitted by rstrahl 1 month, 11 days ago

west-wind.com — I'm calling a COM object from managed code that's returning a binary response, which is returned as a SafeArray of bytes from the COM server. The problem is the SafeArray is not exactly easily accessed in .NET and the debugger provides some misleading information for the returned COM type. Here's how to access the SafeArray from C# code. read more...

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