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Tip about jQuery $.extend

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:46:18 GMT

The story, about how to use $.extend jQuery method, to derive classes

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

Combining JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:01:13 GMT

Using JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

5 Tips for Better jQuery Cod

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:03 GMT

I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time.

Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:05 GMT

When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming"

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

What if your contact form fails?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article.

ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

I've published my session slides and samples from the Fall 2008 ASP.NET Connections conference. The sessions include: jQuery and ASP.NET, WCF REST and JSON with ASP.NET and Dealing with Long Running Requests in ASP.NET.

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak. Here is a way to write tests to catch leaks.

Use jQuery and quickSearch to interactively search any data

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

A complete example of how to implement progressive search in ASP.NET, using the jQuery plugin quickSearch. The source download includes a customized version of quickSearch for use with ASP.NET.

BR element sucks!

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:04:29 GMT

You know how it goes. Designer creates the design templates or whatever and then developers have their say. Sometimes, it happens that they mess up something. Among many design issues caused by developers, one in particular really drives me me nuts - incorrect usage of <br/> element. I often find that <br/> element is being used to create layout. And this is simply - incorrect.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

Cross page posting ,submit form and Server.Transfer methods in asp.net

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:13:13 GMT

4. Cross page posting in ASP.NET To transer data using cross page posting we need to use FindControl Method we can write code like this 6. Server.Transfer Method in ASP.NET Server.Transfer method sends (transfers) all the state information all application/session variables and all items in the request collections) created in one ASPX page to a second ASPX page. you can't use Server.Transfer to send the user to an external site The Server.Transfer method also has a second parameter-"preserveForm". If you set this to True, using a statement such as Server.Transfer("WebForm2.aspx", True), the existing query string and any form variables will still be available to the page you are transferring to. For example, if your Default.aspx has a TextBox control called TextBox1 and you transferred to Default2.aspx with the preserveForm parameter set to True, you'd be able to retrieve the value of the original page TextBox control by referencing Request.Form("TextBox1").

Data Transfer using cookies and session variables in asp ,net

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:10:50 GMT

2. Data Transfer Using Cookies Cookies are stored in client machine and can have max size of 4kb To store value from textbox 3. Data Transfer using Session Variables Storing and retrieving Data to and from session variables on the page we want

Understanding ASP.NET Internals

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:56:30 GMT

ASP.NET is not just the page model we're all used to. It's also a complete request / response framework. You could implement php on it if you were that way inclined.

ASP.NET Routing + just enough rope...

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:11:50 GMT

If you've played with the new ASP.NET routing stuff with WebForms, you probably encountered some issues with relative paths to static content (css, Javascript files etc). This is a common issue across browsers because of the way they resolve relative paths. This post shows a simple example and a couple ways to resolve it...

Starting with jQuery - Using jQuery with Web Forms

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

In this sixth and final entry on a series of post focused on using jQuery with no prior knowledge, I dive into applying jQuery into the traditional ASP.Net web form environment. The example code covered in this entry focuses on applying the jQuery Validation plug-in against 2 sets of input in the same form. To make the example more realistic, the form fields are contained inside of content page to ensure the code works with ASP.Net's client id renaming feature/annoyance.

PagedList Sorted Edition

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:16:10 GMT

Sorted Edition of PagedList

http://riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:01:02 GMT

Create a file tree explorer with the jQuery File tree plugin and asp.net. With this plugin and a little server side logic, it is very easy to create a great looking client side file tree explorer. This article explains how to set up, configure and customize jQuery File Tree and use ASP.NET to retrieve the file structure.

Best of the web - my pick for October 2008

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:01:02 GMT

There were a lot of high quality articles dawned in my Google Reader last month. Chris Spooner (Blog.SpoonGraphics) posted two awesome tutorials on how to create a modern blog design. Angie and Robert Bowen (Arbenitng) launched Social Media Directory for Designers. Dave Ward (Encosia) shared & of his favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASAP.NET. I published Handycons, free hand-drawn social media icon set, and I'm working on Handycons II.

Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:16:13 GMT

Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has long been the ultimate goal of testing fanatics. But is code coverage really all that useful? If I told you that my application has 100% code coverage, should that mean anything to you?

You should never use flags for language choice

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:36:25 GMT

Flag icons are pretty (especially fam-fam-fam icon set). But flag represents a country, not a language. Isn't it obvious? No, it's obviously not! While I surfed the web yesterday I found several websites that use flags for language choice. Here are a few reasons why you'll never want to do that.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."