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Set a Validator's Display to 'None' for the ValidatorCalloutExtender
If you look at Figure 15-1 in ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies , you'll notice that there's an almost-hidden question mark (?) behind the AJAX Control Kit's ValidatorCallout control. The arrow in the picture points to the mistake (bug) in the book. At the time...
Need an iPod-like Menu for ASP.NET Pages
Do any of the ASP.NET component vendors have a treeview or menu control that emulates the look and feel of the iPod menu? Has anyone out there built one? I have a client who would like to save space by letting users drill down deep to their data without...
Who Makes the Fastest ASP.NET Datagrid?
If you visit the sites of the major ASP.NET component vendors, you'll discover many claims about the richness, flexibility, ease-of-use, attractive design, and so on. However, when it comes to a datagrid and large datasets, eye-candy isn't enough. Web...
IE6 Hanging after Clearing the Cache: Remove AJAX Script Compression Too
One of my client's customers was really upset because Internet Explorer 6 would often hang on opening the client's ASP.NET Web application. Naturally it struck during an important "show and tell" session. We were able to reproduce the problem...
Failing AJAX Update? Check the Viewstate
I went around and around for several days on the case of the disappearing treeview. My client is using the excellent ComponentArt TreeView control wrapped inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel with a Timer control to update the treeview contents every minute...
Free Rich Text Editor ASP.NET Control Includes Source Code
Wow! Check out the free Rich Text Editor control for ASP.NET on CodePlex. What a great contribution to the community. You can download the source code here .
Validating a URL Using AJAX and the Server
There's an interesting example of combining ASP.NET AJAX and server-side validation in the Validation Guidance Bundle from the Patterns and Practices group. One of the fields requires the user to enter the URL of her home page. The sample invokes a server...
Posted: Oct 01 2007, 10:44 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | with 1 comment(s)
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LINQ and WCF Services
My friend Kirk has a very interesting post that uses LINQ to turn an XML RSS feed into a JSON service using WCF . (Wow, this is acronym heaven!) The piece has good information about techniques using .NET 3.5 including LINQ to XML (including XDocument...
Speed Test: A No-Code LINQ-Based ASP.NET 3.5 Page
How fast can you create a single-page, coding-free, AJAX-enhanced, Linq-driven Web application from scratch in VS 2008v2/VWD? Very fast, I'll bet. I've prepared these instructional steps. Your challenge is to follow them closely and report back how many...
Concerns about Silverlight, ActiveXObject, and Corporate Acceptance
I'm really excited about the potential found in Silverlight 1.1. The ability to create rich, browser-embedded applications using .NET languages is very appealing. I mentioned to a control vendor that what I really need to move forward is a grid control...
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