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Beginners introduction to Jiffycms Open source HTML Editor by alessandro

Jiffycms HTML Editor is a rich text open source HTML editor with commercial grade features and is a great alternative. It has great designer support in VS.NET and simply works out of the box without any additional configurations or plumbing on your part....
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Jiffycms HTML Editor V1.O released by alessandro

Jiffycms HTML Editor V1.0 is an open source editor with commercial grade features most of which facilitate development and as you will see from this short showcase, embedding jiffycms HTML Editor into your pages is easy, straightfoward, requires no dependencies...
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ASP.NET MVC and no codebehind class by alessandro

ASP.NET MVC by default uses WebForms as the default View Engine. One gotcha you may not notice when adding a new *.aspx or *.master file, is that the respective codebehind classes (autogenerated ones) extend ViewPage and ViewMasterPage. I really do not...
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Conserving Resources When Writing BLOB Values to SQL Server and Streaming BLOB Values back to the Client by alessandro

Reading and writing blob data to/from your database can be a resource hog, because it normally involves holding the entire stream in memory. Holding 10kb, 20, 100kb in memory might not be an issue, however as you start allowing larger file uploads, your...
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Automatically reload reCAPTCHA when postingback via a partial refresh (UpdatePanel) by alessandro

So, today, i wanted to use reCAPTCHA. Since this is an online service I was a bit skeptical at first with regard to downtime. However their faq states the following : reCAPTCHA has distributed locations and multiple servers. With that, we know that the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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