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Over the last year I have been spending a lot of time re-learning how to use CSS. Since ASP.NET was released the use of Web Controls had made me CSS and HTML ignorant. With the advent of ASP.NET MVC and JQuery combined with the increasing demand for richer
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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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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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Making any application as user friendly as possible is the primary goal of any User Experience Engineer, that is the person who is responsible for creating the applications actual UI layer. Back in the time of long, long ago I learned that users like
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Late last month I made a post about testing E-Mail functionality with Donovan Brown’s Neptune . Several of you made comments about other utilities and methods that may be used to test SMTP (that’s E-Mail for those of you in Rio Linda) facilities in your
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The past few months I have been trying to learn more about user experience and design patterns. This has led me to learn more about how to use the tools available to me to provide better user experiences, namely CSS and JQuery. I have been writing quite
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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 was working on a Web Form and noticed a property in the TextBox control called AutoCompleteType . I had never noticed it before and my interest was piqued. My first thought was it must be an injected property from an AutoComplete extender on the
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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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Yesterday I walked through applying the JQuery Validation plugin to an ASP.NET web page . Today I want to extend the concept of guiding user input as they complete an online form by demonstrating the JQuery Masked Edit plugin . The ASP.NET AJAX Control
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Now that I have demonstrated how to create a thin Contact form in ASP.NET using JQuery and some AJAX it is time to start making it even better. One of the first rules I learned back in my youth was users will enter anything in any field despite what logic
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Back in January I wrote about making a thin contact form in an effort to demonstrate how to make ASP.NET forms lighter and much more user responsive. The key to making the form more responsive was to avoid using the WebForm and UpdatePanel conventions.
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I was trolling the ASP.NET forums tonight and found a very good question from ctrlctrl, . He wanted to know how to ‘grey’ out the page while he was waiting on a long running process on the server. The answer is pretty simple, it involves a little AJAX
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In my last post I waxed philosophically about the progression of ASP.NET . Today I want to start actually demonstrating how to take ASP.NET to the next level, at least in my opinion. The first thing I always add to a new web site is a contact form. Basically
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It really does not seem like that long ago I found the Beta 1 bits of ASP.NET 1.0 and started tinkering and created the first of several hundred ASP.NET sites. That was May 2001 and everything I had created up to that point was in Classic ASP, at the
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