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Part 2 : Building and binding hierarchical data from the database to the ASP.NET Navigation Controls by alessandro

Around last week , I wrote about how we can make use of, some of the databinding capabilities of controls, that can bind to hierarchical data like the TreeView. While I covered pretty much everything, the data i was binding to was not deeply nested. Instead...

Building and binding hierarchical data from the database to the ASP.NET Navigation Controls by alessandro

If we need to bind our navigations controls to hierarchical data we define manually ourselves in an xml file, this is easy as pie. However, things can get rather complicated or not so obvious when we need to generate this data from a database. First off...

Customizing the ChangePassword control and removing the required CurrentPassword field by alessandro

It's very rare that what is already provided in asp.net under the Login controls fits my requirements out of the box without some tweaking. Not that any of these controls offer anything specialized, but certainly they are a big time saver if we can re...

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...

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...

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...

UpdatePanel Css StyleSheet upon partial-refresh bug in IE by alessandro

The update panel seems to have a bug when registering an external stylesheet or including css styles from within the contents that will be getting partially rendered. The bug only seems to occur in IE, works nicely in firefox. Impressive indeed. My problems...

Fixing the ModalPopup control in the AjaxControlToolKit by alessandro

While the ModalPopup control is nice, it comes short in pretty common usage scenario, especially when wanting to pop it from a DataControl like a GridView, Repeater, DataList and you have what. Specifically what i want to address in this post is being...
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