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Toggle Items in CheckBoxList using jQuery

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:48:15 GMT

nice small client side script for toggling the state of your checkboxList control.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!

.NET - Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part I

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Very good overview of how to query using LINQ to XML

Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:14 GMT

2 ways to clean up your Css by removing unused classes.

Check username availability with JQuery & ASP.NET

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article shows how to use jQuery in a real world practical situation - to check username availability - by making an AJAX call to a WebMethod. In this artcle we examine how to make the call, how get the desired username and pass it correctly as well as using jQuery to style and display firnedly notification messages.

ASP.NET MessageBox Server and Client

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:31:11 GMT

An ASP.NET Message box that can be used from the server and from the client side!

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 1

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

JQuery is the star among the growing list of JavaScript libraries. A few of its characteristics are light-weight, cross-browser compatibility and simplicity. A task that would take 10 lines of code with traditional JavaScript can be accomplished with JQuery in just 1 line of code. I write to record the series of very basic lessons I learned about JQuery (my study source is the very readable book JQuery in Action).

5 Useful Tips for ASP.Net Application

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

There are so many tasks or operations that are repeatedly used in ASP.Net applications. This article will list some of the useful tasks that we can use in our asp.net application extensively.

Client Script Resources in ASP.NET Controls revisited

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:06:15 GMT

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.

Details Popup Via jQuery clueTip Plugin

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:46:05 GMT

Just to prove there are a million ways to get something done I decided to try using the jQuery clueTip Plugin to provide more details about an item in an ASP.NET ListView via a popup.

ClientScriptProxy and JavaScript Linking In Headers

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:50:18 GMT

a great article on embedding scripts in the header of an aspx page.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

Embedding GPS coordinates and other info in JPEG images with C#

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:00:57 GMT

great article on adding GPS info to images

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

The 5 types of poor software architects

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:31:06 GMT

The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:02 GMT

This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors.

Linq to SQL Wish List

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:46:02 GMT

What do we want to see in the next version of Linq to SQL ?

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks on CodePlex

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks is now on CodePlex

enum to friendly string extension method

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods.

Create MessageBox user control using ASP.NET and CSS

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

This article shows how to create MessageBox user control using ASP.NET and CSS. It have the ability to render different message types. It also have a close button in order to enable users to hide the message after reading. The article will guide you through the basics of making a simple and functional user control.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

Beware of List(T).Find

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:12 GMT

Llist(t).Find returns the first element found that matches a given criteria, but what happens if no such element found?