I have a simple table generated by an ASP.NET MVC view and needed to switch out CSS classes as the user hovered over rows.  Initially I used the rather obvious “hover” feature built-into jQuery since it provides a way to write code that’s called as the user enters and leaves an object.  I ended up doing something like this:

Here’s a quick tip on selecting parent nodes based on something I had to do yesterday with jQuery on a client project.  I have an ASP.NET MVC page that outputs a basic table containing search results and as a user hovers over an item in a map I needed to highlight the appropriate row in the search results by changing its CSS class.  I debated simply adding an ID on the row to make it easy to find but decided I didn’t want to deal with another ID in the DOM.  Here’s what a portion of the view page looks like: 

I’m an ASP.NET Web Forms fan…always have been since ASP.NET was first released.  But, I like to keep an open mind when it comes to new technologies and I decided to experiment with the new ASP.NET MVC framework that Microsoft just released so I knew how it could be used with consulting projects and for training my company provides.  I was so impressed with some of the things I could do that I’m now using ASP.NET MVC on a customer project and thought I’d share some of the things I really like about the framework.

My company is currently working on a consulting project that uses ASP.NET MVC and a lot of jQuery and JSON behind the scenes for data transfer which is a lot of fun.  I’m personally tasked with the back-end processes but also handling user interface updates as JSON data is received.  I have a form with several different controls in it that are updated once JSON is returned from a controller action and the controls are updated using jQuery selectors.  Something like this:

If you’re building Silverlight applications and need to be able to run Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the same machine (even though Visual Studio 2008 doesn’t support Silverlight multi-targeting) then check out Amy Dullard’s post.  I won’t go through all of the steps since she outlines them nicely, but here’s an overview:

If you’re one of those people who enjoys researching new technologies and staying up with the technology “curve” then you have to be excited about all of the new features announced at the MIX conference this week in Las Vegas.  Whether you’re into IIS 7, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight or other .NET technologies, a slew of new announcements were made.  I’m really impressed with the direction Microsoft is going and excited about the new technologies that were announced.

A few weeks back my company offered a free online webinar on LINQ technologies to help developers more easily make the transition to LINQ.  While there was a great turn out at the webinar, I received several emails from people who couldn’t attend asking if I could provide a video recording of the webinar.  It turns out that the audio for the recording wasn’t up to my standards so I put together a video that provides an introductory look at different LINQ technologies including: