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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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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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A very common issue that many new developers come into when using a DropDownList control is how to truly bind items to the list. A common problem that happens is they bind just the items or records from the list. This creates an issue when the user wants
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As I was doing some research for a section in my upcoming book I noticed a reference to using the Access key on the web control I was getting deeper with. I honestly had never noticed this property before and at first thought it was specific to this control.
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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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I had a request for the Copyright control in C#. Of course the compiled control will work with any .NET langauge, but I can do C# too, so here you go: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing.Design; using System.Security.Permissions;
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With all the cool new things going on in the .NET space some of the fundamental tings can get lost on us. Over the past few months I have decided to tackle what I think is sort of a forgotten aspect of ASP.NET and that is creating Web Controls. When I
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Microsoft just released the ASP.NET AJAX Framework Beta, go check it out!
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Cross page postbacks are a great feature introduced with ASP.NET 2.0 that allows a developer to specify another page/form to submit the form. This gives us more control over our site and helps us get away from nasty data manangement coding on the backend side. This new feature howerver introduces the need to consistently access the controls from the previous page. I decided to write some wrappers to help with this functionality.
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I think every developer/team should have a good set of utility functions to help make code cleaner and easier to maintain. Typicaly these are methods that probably should be in the core framework for us to use, but somehow the framework team never got around to it. The first method I am going to talk about is one I use multiple times on every site and often multiple times on any given page, SelectListControlItem.
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Now this is what I am talking about, a great use of AJAX with a progress bar. I found it on ScottGu's blog. He even has some visuals on his site. The controls are part of the Atlas Toolkit. I seriously hope I have some weekend time to play with these controls.
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I came across this lengthy Blog by Mark Gabarra with all sorts of entries about .NET 3.0 installation issues and how to resolve them. I still plan on making some entries about .NET 3.0 here shortly.
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ASP.NET comes with a great set of validation controls, which can be invaluable to any developer wanting to maintain the integrity of their application. If you do not use validation controls you really need to start incorporating them into your application ASAP. One validation control that I rarely ever see used is the ValidationSummary control.
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This is more applicable to ASP.NET 1.1, but can be used in 2.0 anyway. One of the top complaints I get from clients is the abiltiy to enter information in a form and just hit the enter key and the form post back. In ASP.NET this just cuases the form to post back and nothing get processed. Sort of lame, but there is a way to make this work.
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I want to thank TRINUG, my local user group, for letting be the main presenter last night. I talked about how to take the data controls like GridView, Datalist and Repeater to another level. I sort of did a progression of creating and controlling custom layouts in the data controls. This started with a review of some basic items, like autogenerated columns, bound columns templates and the use of custom templates.
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