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At the end of the day yesterday one of my peers at my client came over and asked me how to randomly select an item from a SharePoint List. She was retrieving the list using jQuery and only wanted to display one item from the list, but she wanted that
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Now that I have covered the basics of calling a WCF service using jQuery’s AJAX functionality with JSON its time to deal with bugs. Yep, we all create them and have to troubleshoot them on a daily basis. Even if you are not actually coding the WCF
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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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This year MIX is letting you, the community, determine some of the content available during the conference. I, along with many others submitted different sessions to be voted on by, well anyone! You can choose up to 5 sessions . Voting closes on January
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The other day I gave an intro to JQuery Lunch and Learn to my client’s development team. I walked them through creating a simple JQuery Plugin to create a character remaining feature like Twitter has on its web site. The ingredients for this plugin involved
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If you have been using JQuery I hope you have started using the JQuery UI library. I use the JQuery UI Datepicker plugin to left users select a date from a calendar when they enter a date input field. The plugin works great, but an issue was raised by
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Earlier this year I wrote an application that allowed the user to fill in a username as part of the registration. I thought I would add a creature comfort to the form by making a non-intrusive validation of the username against the ASP.NET membership
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Internet Explorer has been out for a while now, and I am very pleased with it, especially from a developer’s perspective. First I am more and more appreciative of the IE team getting CSS compliant, this is making it so much easier to create a consistent
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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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The phrase “teaching an old dog new tricks” comes to mind as I start this entry. Nearly two years ago I wrote about how to hide a DropDownList box behind another layer . The reason why this is important is a DropDownList is rendered as a system control
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Often users are required to ‘read’ or ‘acknowledge’ a terms of use, license agreement or some other form of legal disclaimer before they can either use the software, web site or tool online. Microsoft does it all over the place as a CYA measure when we
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Today I want to keep extending my series on Thin ASP.NET by adding some more user experience features, Default Focus and Default Button. Early in my windows experience (circa 1992) I learned a truth, that keyboarding through a form is so much faster than
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