Earlier today I posted a blog about using a generic handler (.ashx) to upload a file to a web server, and in the back of my head I wanted to use it somewhere neat and special, and I also want to find the most reliable and working version. And I also want to learn what [...]
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In recent times, the last year or so, I have come to move away from web forms and move more towards an architecture that involves plain html combined with web services or in some cases generic handlers. I like this approach because it allows me to perfectly control the quality of the HTML that is [...]
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Last year July I wrote a blog post that listed some sites that use Silverlight to power rich application content. Twelve months later and I have found a few more cool ones, although the Hardrock Memorabilia site still remains my favourite. ShineDraw still remains a great site for checking out the same things done in [...]
Today someone asked me what my opinion on webforms are or were, and sometimes I feel like the proverbial deer that gets caught with the light in his eyes. It probably seemed like I knew nothing about web forms, which is not entirely true. I mean I did a lot of my first ASP.NET programming [...]
Ok so I recently got a request to do a project that uses all kinds of pretty charts, and initially the development team wanted to use Open Flash Charts, but the developer I was working with on the project was on leave for two days and in that time I decided to check out New [...]
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I use Google a lot for .NET resources, but I do have a few places I read a lot, and not just to get solutions but also to read about other people’s solutions. Reading about other people’s solutions is a key to learning, and learning is important to any developer’s success. Here are my top [...]
In my post yesterday I mentioned that I would like to develop a session-less shopping cart through the use of web services and classes. Well, I changed my mind a bit because I am not sure if AJAX can maintain state. Can it? How will AJAX retain state? I’m not sure yet, so sessions it [...]
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What is the idea behind unobtrusive JavaScript? What makes JavaScript unobtrusive? Does it mean removing any onlclick events in your markup and handling those click events with an approach as provided with jQuery? With jQuery its very (extremely) easy to traverse between DOM elements and its even easier associating events to elements and executing them. [...]
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I have never used handlers (.ashx) files in any of my .NET web development projects, but this all changed in the last two days. The way I understand a handler is that it acts as a ‘process’ handler and does not write any output to the browser. Where would you use this? Well I used [...]
ASP.NET has a server control called a panel, which allows you to display other server controls or HTML elements inside it, and one of its properties is DefaultButton. By setting the DefaultButton to the ID of a button within the panel you basically set its default keyboard event that will fire the click event associated [...]
