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You’ve probably noticed that Jörn Zaefferer’s jQuery validation plugin has been gaining momentum in the ASP.NET community lately. Between Microsoft’s implied endorsement via ASP.NET MVC 2.0 integration and the plugin’s recent inclusion on the Microsoft AJAX CDN, adoption is only increasing. Unfortunately for those who don’t or can’t use ASP.NET MVC yet, using the validation [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Using jQuery validation with ASP.NET WebForms Read More...

Daniel Bardi, a Visual WebGui user shared his experience with the Umbraco community as he wrote in his post "...The UI is amazing and works in all known webbrowsers... it's the reason I had decided on the platform for the project (and by reading the many, many reviews). The framework allows non-web developers (or winform developers) to build web applications using a WinForms development environment. No more worries about session and state. The web applications runs on the server and is "projected...( read more ) Read More...

By now, you probably already know that Google hosts jQuery on its AJAX APIs CDN, free of charge. As I’ve discussed here in the past, I’m a big fan of using their CDN to achieve decreased latency, increased parallelism, and better caching. If you’ve explored the AJAX APIs documentation a bit, you may know that jQuery [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature? Read More...

fivesecondtest.com , "A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces." Simple yet great idea. Here is an example: Help me improve a design I'm working on by doing a five second test . Read More...

Though the version number only inched up 0.0.1 with this release, it brings quite a few new features; most of them in response to your requests. I can’t include every request, but I will continue to improve the control based on your feedback, so keep them coming. Changes in v4.1.5 include: Updated the base Highslide JS library [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Highslide JS .NET v4.1.5 Read More...

The Visual WebGui Geeks are back after a short break with a new episode that is available on the Geeks on a role blog . Episode 6 of "Geeks on a role" Version 6.4 is it really that good? concentrates on the new features of version 6.4 and the differences between the upcoming version and the current version. In the episode, the geeks basically show & explain what should be expected from this new version. Watch now......( read more ) Read More...

"Cannot create window handle" When a big Windows Forms application I'm working on for a client is used actively, users often get "Cannot create window handle" exceptions. Aside from the fact that the application consumes too much resources, which is a separate issue altogether that we are already addressing, we had difficulties with determining what resources were getting exhausted as well as what the limits are for these resources. We first thought about keeping an eye on the Handles counter in the Windows Task Manager. That was because we noticed that some processes tended to consume more of these resources than they normally should. However, this counter is not the good one because it keeps track of resources such...

Visual WebGui 6.3.8a was released today as a fix to the following v6.3.8 issues: VWG-5087 - IE-Button: The right-side border should be rendered in the correct position VWG-4256 - Button with 21x21 image should not crop image with button size of 25x25 VWG-5091 - OpenFileDialog non-Flash should not throw JS error (while calling parent.Upload_CloseWindow()) VWG-5092 - OpenFileDialog non-Flash should not hang when OK button pressed VWG-5093 - OpenFileDialog in Flash mode should not throw JS error while...( read more ) Read More...

Collaboration features on SharePoint 2007 are undisputedly excellent, but there is occasional quirk which impede serious usability. One of them is absence of left navigation, or “quick launch”, on custom created web-part pages in any SharePoint site. Though you can choose from various web-part page layout style during creation, there is no option to make the left navigation visible other than playing page-by-page with SharePoint Designer! In large utilizations, its impossible to go to each web-part page and hope to fix it in SharePoint Designer. Not everyone has it, nor they know how to play with mark-up of page/master page. So I set out to figure how I can fix this for all existing web-part pages and those created in future in any site, site...

A new version of Highslide JS .NET is available today. Nothing major has changed in the .NET control, but the newer Highslide JS version includes several bug fixes, compatibility improvements, and performance benefits. To eliminate one common source of confusion, I’ve decided to begin versioning Highslide JS .NET based on the version of Highslide JS embedded [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Highslide JS .NET v4.1.4 Read More...