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• partial nested classes

  "Partial classes" is on of the new features of v2 that, while I totally get why Microsoft wanted to add it, I didn't really see any use of them beyond the vstudio code gen world. "Nested classes" was one of the features of v1 that, while I completely... Posted Sep 05 2005, 02:29 PM by Andy Smith with | with no comments Filed under: asp.net controls

• yay @ atlas

  The cat's out of the bag about Atlas . AJAX may actually get productive soon. Not to dismiss the other frameworks in place at all. ( AJAX.net has some great ideas there ) It's just easier to incorporate a library into custom controls when it's already... Posted Jun 29 2005, 01:18 AM by Andy Smith with | with no comments Filed under: asp.net controls

• Event handler declarations in the tag are the right thing

  Teemu brought up the current event declaration behavior today, and even pointed to a bug report about it. I'm going to take the opposite stance. putting the onclick="whatever" attribute on the tag is the best solution to a complicated problem. Now, if... Posted Sep 14 2004, 03:59 PM by Andy Smith with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• Composite controls that do their own databinding

  Most databound controls are written from the perspective that they will be databound to something, but the control writer doesn’t know what that would be. It is assumed that the control’s container will set the datasource and databind it. Therefore the... Posted Aug 29 2004, 06:55 PM by Andy Smith with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• The Death of DynamicImage

  Of all the features cut from asp.net v2 , the only one that I'm really going to miss is the loss of DyanmicImage and the Image Generation Service. Not so much because it's a little harder to do dynamic images in my app without them, but because it's much... Posted Aug 17 2004, 12:17 AM by Andy Smith with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• MetaBuilders and Telligent

  It's not often that a contractor says, "wow, I’m so incredibly happy about my latest client", but I see myself in that position. And seeing that I have a voice, I just need to tell y’all. I recently signed up to help out Telligent with their Community... Posted Aug 08 2004, 03:40 AM by Andy Smith with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• Web Control Developer Macro Goodness

  I've had these control dev macros sitting around for a while, and I thought I'd share them finally. First I looked for a wiki I could post them to, but I was surprised to not find one for vstudio addins/macros/whatnot. The closest I found was the gotdotnet... Posted Aug 02 2004, 03:23 AM by Andy Smith with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• Firefox nonbug that caused me some grief today

  I ran into a rather unfortunate issue today with a server control that I thought would probably be good to talk about. The issue is created by non-bugs that come together to make a bug. Firefox persists the values of form fields when the user refreshes... Posted Jul 14 2004, 04:18 PM by Andy Smith with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• Materials from my usergroup presentation

  It's taken me a while to remember to do this... I gave a presentation on monday to the denver .net user group on developing asp.net server controls and i'm positing the presentation materials on for those that want it. So anyway, grab the powerpoint and... Posted Jun 30 2004, 06:16 PM by Andy Smith with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls

• MetaBuilders is in bussiness, yay!

  After a whole lot of work, MetaBuilders has MultiViewBar available , my first commercial control. And with that, I felt that the first site redesign was in order. By far, the hardest part of doing this was the business setup stuff. Forms... Accounts.... Posted Jun 21 2004, 05:40 PM by Andy Smith with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net controls