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In my three previous posts about using the Microsoft WebMatrix tool I showed how to create a form, add database interactivity and automated E-Mail functionality. Today I want to start making the site take a more usable form by adding a site layout. Create
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This is the third in a series of posts on using the new ASP.NET WebMatrix tool. Today we are going to add automated E-Mail functionality. Again the Html Helpers make this a very easy task. Creating the Contact Form Adding Database Storage Continuing where
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Yesterday I posted the first in a series on using WebMatrix to build web sites . The first post created a basic contact form and collected the submitted values. Now I am going to add a database and a table to store the site’s contact form submissions.
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Earlier this week Microsoft released a Beta version of WebMatrix , as web development tool aimed at new developers, hobbyist and those new to the Microsoft web stack. Today I am going to walk through building a standard contact form using WebMatrix .
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Remember the days of Classic ASP? You know when you could build an entire application in notepad and some simple VBScript? Then Visual Interdev came along and well 12 years later we have a mountain range of classes and Visual Studio 2010 along with other
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One of the big announcement at MIX 10 besides the Windows Phone Development stuff was a new jQuery plugin to do data templating. This comes is some very welcome news for me. If you have followed me this year or caught one of my talks I have been spending
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Yesterday’s post reviewed how to setup a WCF web service to work with JSON from top to bottom. Today I am going to review what needs to be done to use JQuery to work with those WCF end points. If you have not already done so please download the example
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Saturday I gave a presentation for the first time at the Southern California Code Camp on how to use JQuery to perform AJAX operations against a WCF Endpoint. Today I want to review how to create a WCF service that supports JSON and how to properly create
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What a wonderful showing yesterday at the SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton for both of my sessions. One thing I definitely learned is making AJAX calls to a WCF service with JQuery is in high demand and 60 minutes does not do it justice! Thanks for all the
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I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, ‘How do you create web sites so fast?’.
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Last Summer, around August 2008, I started work on my latest book and spent the next 5 months working on updates to the Beer House application . WROX asked me to write the book and only had 2 requirements: 1) Use Entity Framework 2) Add more AJAX to the
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I have really gotten into using JQuery a lot this year, as I think just about anyone who is a web developer has in the past year or two. ASP.NET developers we inevitably will use Web Form controls, which have an Id property we define. This Id property
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Over the past couple of years I have written and presented on custom HttpModules . One of my examples is how to spin up a background thread to perform work not related to processing a web request. I thought I would extend the usefulness of this technique
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Trolling the ASP.NET forums this week I came across a good question, “ setting the background on a master page div at run-time? ”. Even though the person posted he found an acceptable solution before I posted my response, I think the user has a complicated
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Another common issue developers have using HttpHandlers is indicating what type of content is being sent to the browser. This is done by setting the MIME TYPE in the request header. In ASP.NET, whether you are doing it in an HttpHandler or a Page, you
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