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LOL ;-)))

It seems today that a good bunch of good guys have been awarded MVP by Microsoft.

Only one word Coool ;-)

If someone told me few years ago I could done this with Cobol, I will have a laugh ;-)

Helper class that generates and registers a client side script which sets focus to a control during the loading of the page. 

RonVecchi posted on CodeProject a nice control to add a flash movie.

Like me you don't know what to offer to your beloved wife for Valentine's day.

This is an idea, and yes you surely be able to eat the chocolates not the mobile ;-)

This title is there to reflect the hell I live when you push the boundaries of event management, web and a little bit of client-side scripting.

I will launch in few days a new website about science in Irish schools for Secondary pupils, ScienceUnleashed.

Check yourself if you want to have a look, but be aware the site is still in debugging mode, and I can say it's hard, very hard to debug a web application with so many things happening on a screen.

I curse actually the Postback system, and I wish Whidbey improve the system.

An example. I build a dynamic Quiz working well alone. But I also have a popup control triggering a Postback, so I have to redraw the Quiz after the window show up, otherwise my Quiz controls will be empty.

But I have 4 different states for the Quiz, so every time a postback happen, I have to test which state I am before redrawing the Quiz. Pain in the ass!
Also reading the values from a form is basic stuff, but because you can have another event somewhere on the page I have to store (State bag) each value of my form. Pain in the ass!

And I have at least 10 cases happening like that !

I don't want to be too negative, the overall .Net experience is good for me, but I dream about some future improvements in a .Net web application like:

- Truly multithread events including Postback. Doing so,  each event will have his own execution without the necessity to worry about refreshing the page.
- Better implementation (well surely in VB) of the events themselves. I would like to see something like a button click from my code. Maybe I am wrong but I couldn't find something simple to fire a button through my code.
- Less bloated viewstate. The source of the default page on my site look like the Champollion tablet, overloaded with strange hieroglyphs.

Dmitry Chestnykh after I asked him for some modifications has finally be able to make Blogjet working with .Text.

So now you can use it for your .Text blog and the categories have also been fixed.