Friends of Client Development Newsletter – April 2006

Friends of Client Development Newsletter – April 2006

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WinForms Website Updated

If you’ve been to http://www.windowsforms.net lately, you’ll notice several changes and updates.   We’ve embarked on a website update project to update the Information Architecture to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for and to add fresh, new content to the site.   You’ll...

Toolkit refresh teaser

We've been busily working on the Toolkit refresh.  I'm not making any promises but I think we can get it out by the middle of next week.  Here's a short off-the-top-of-my-head list of what to expect:

Incorporated feedback. ...

RSS Feed Icons!

As I was surfing around last night before heading out for Dine Out For Life, I came across this great...

A style that will make the entire cell "clickable" in a Menu

Here's a quick tip for the Menu control.  I'm pretty sure there were some good reasons why this wasn't the default but I just can't think of them at the moment. [EDIT: I just remembered one of them, this won't work perfectly with ItemSpacing...]

If you want to make the entire cell clickable (and not just the text), try using a style "display:block; width:100%".  You'll only want to apply this to the <A> inside the cells. 

Here's an example:

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A style that will make the entire cell "clickable" in a Menu

Here's a quick tip for the Menu control. I'm pretty sure there were some good reasons why this wasn't the default but I just can't think of them at the moment. [EDIT: I just remembered one of them, this won't work perfectly with ItemSpacing...] If you want to make the entire cell clickable (and not just the text), try using a style "display:block; width:100%". You'll only want to apply this to the <A> inside the cells. Here's an example: <% @ Page Language ="C#" %> <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> < html xmlns ="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > < head...

The Power of the DIV &amp; other BLOCK elements

The DIV tag is one of my most hated and most loved tags in HTML.  It allows you to do so much, but at the same time, can cause some headaches when things aren't lining up, or because of their block nature, finding each new div on a new line.

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Release: CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters Beta 1

UPDATE #2: These are about to go back online, version Beta 1.1 (last update...

Slides &amp; Samples from Atlas Toolkit Talk

I've done a couple online talks about the Toolkit.  Here's the slides & demo that I did as part of the talk.

 

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