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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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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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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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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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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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Yesterday I answered a question on the ASP.NET forums on how to create a ‘frame’ around an image . I answered it with some code from the new Beer House I wrote last fall. In the book I show how to add a drop-shadow around an image using CSS. The code
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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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Brad Abrams recently posted tips he has for someone interviewing for a Program Manager position at Microsoft . In his post he references different questions and situations he likes to put candidates through. One section titled Design and Bahh Questions
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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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This morning I came across a really well written new Blog by Miron Abramson on ASP.NET. One of his early entries is a method to Highlight the row in a GridView control as the mouse passes over it . I particularly like the way he abstracts the functionality
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One of the cool features of ASP.NET 2.0 that I love to use if the DefaultFocus property of the Form object. Combining it along with the DefaultButton property can go a long way to enhancing the user experience on your web sites. The DefaultFocus property
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