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• Disabling a Trigger Control During Asynchronous PostBack

  Often, we want to disable the control that triggered an asynchronous postback until the postback has completed. This prohibites the user from triggering another postback until the current one is complete. The Code First add a ScriptManager to the page... Posted Mar 06 2008, 02:31 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development, JavaScript

• Maintain Scroll Position after Asynchronous Postback

  Do you want to maintain the scroll position of a GridView, Div, Panel, or whatever that is inside of an UpdatePanel after an asynchronous postback? Normally, if the updatepanel posts back, the item will scroll back to the top because it has been reloaded... Posted Mar 04 2008, 01:43 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development, JavaScript

• Selecting an AJAX AccordionPane by ID

  Typically, if we want to programmatically select a particular AccordionPane within an ASP.NET AJAX Accordion control, we set the SelectedIndex property. This is great if we know the exact order of our AccordionPanes at all times, but this isn’t always... Posted Mar 03 2008, 04:04 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development

• Easy SQL “If Record Exists, Update It. If Not, Insert It.”

  A very common scenario is the one where we want to update the information in a record if it already exists in the table, and if it doesn’t exist, we want to create a new record with the information. The most common solution to this problem is using IF... Posted Feb 21 2008, 01:02 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Web Development, SQL

• View Source Trick for Pages with Partial Rendering

  Many people when developing want to look at the browser’s View Source to make sure that things are being outputted correctly or to see where in the DOM certain things are showing up. However, if you are using the Ajax concept of partial rendering (usually... Posted Feb 20 2008, 02:04 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development, JavaScript

• Controlling the ASP.NET Timer Control with JavaScript

  Have you ever wanted to control your <asp:Timer> control from client-side code? Let’s say you’ve named your timer ‘Timer1’. The first step is to create a reference to this component: var timer = Sys.Application.findComponent(‘<%= Timer1.ClientID... Posted Feb 19 2008, 11:30 AM by disturbedbuddha with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development, JavaScript

• A Client-side Ajax Login for ASP.NET

  A question was posed on the ASP.NET forums recently asking how to have a login control that doesn’t refresh the page. The ideal solution would be to just drop an ASP.NET Login control inside an updatepanel. However, the Login control (along with PasswordRecovery... Posted Feb 18 2008, 01:39 PM by disturbedbuddha with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Web Development, JavaScript