January 2008 - Posts

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Reducing UpdatePanel bloat by utilizing UpdateMode="Conditional" and ChildrenAsTriggers="false" by alessandro

Just the other day, i was playing around with my DataControls nested inside an updatepanel. While this was working well, since everypostback was being done via an ajax callback, the amount of traffic going back and forth was simply way too bloated. It...
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Semantically correct markup and the casual table. Can they co-exist ? by alessandro

I am sure by now, everybody has been scorned upon for not using semantically correct markup. It's all over the web today. The message is clear, Web standards are important. Valid Xhtml is important but above all, SEMANTICALLY CORRECT MARKUP! What is Semantically...
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Tabmenu missing in the asp.net toolbox ? Not anymore! by alessandro

One of the things i find lacking in asp.net is a Tab control. A tabbed UI is quite useful if not a very essential UI component that is not included in asp.net by default, however you already have all the tools necessary to make one. What i do to get a...
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Failed to load viewstate ? Typical problem, with an obvious solution. by alessandro

Understanding viewstate is fundamental in asp.net, especially if you had run into : Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save viewstate during the previous request...
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Constructing a window frame to compliment the Popup and ModalPopup controls in AjaxControlToolkit library. by alessandro

ok, so, to continue my previous post on the AjaxControlToolKit(ModalPopup), one of the things I feel might be convenient is the addition of a window frame panel that can be used alongside the Popup or ModalPopup control. Both the Popup and ModalPopup...
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