November 2006 - Posts
I have been looking for methods to get rid of redundant code throughout my Sites-Easy Project. The biggest issue I have is the redundancy of all of the DAL methods. For instance I have the ability to add a Section that contains 40 some parameters, but
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There are plenty of opinions on the matter and the purpose of this entry is not to take one side or the other and instead explain why sometimes it is best to share the viewpoints of both camps. While working on Sites-Easy (my version of the original CSK
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Collection of Miscellaneous Tips and Solutions - and not really many tricks... Using Trace In a blog post long ago, one of the issues I had was using Trace. I had always used trace by setting it to true / enabled and scrolling to the end of the page.
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Today was released a new 'official' release of the Ajax Toolkit . It apparently solves some issues with viewstate, gives the modalpopup some additional scenarios to be worked in, and a few other updates...but. If you run a DGS (dynamically generated site),
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If you haven't heard the word on the streets already... Beyond the issues that the latest technologies (like Ajax) are presenting to a site owner's need to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, MSN etc... Developers now get to answer the questions of "How do I
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Today's entry will outline some of the bugs with previous code. For some reason code that works absolutely fine in my normal project solutions did not work with the Web Application Project solution the AjaxToolkit uses. Thus - I glad to report we have
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The adventure continues, and as with trying learn new technology that is not very documented or has been around but one never bothered to ever use...one must navigate brick walls carefully. In the previous two installments - bunch of code, and techno
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In part I, I covered the overall 'Big Picture' and designed the UI. Today, we introduce the pain that comes from converting Atlas to Ajax Beta 2 and the whole prototype model that must be used. So have your Tylenol near by. Since I neglected to provide
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Preface: One of the most frustrating aspects of the web is its disconnected nature. How many times have you visited a site spent 20 or 30 minutes to write a reply to a post and when you go to submit - all the work is lost because you are no longer authenticated.
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There are alot of discussions that take place amongst developers every day about programming methods and the best way to approach problems. I can remember when I first started learning to code C# - what bewildered me was all the syntax conventions (what
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Health Monitoring is a really cool feature of .Net introduced with .Net 2.0. To summarize it allows a simple entry in your web.config - provides: ASP.NET health monitoring allows system administrators to monitor the status of deployed Web applications.
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Technically speaking, if you are using standard .Net Validators - as long as your web.config is correct - the validators are automatically replaced with their ajax cousins...more info on the validators can be found in the migration doc and here http://ajax.asp.net/docs/mref/0e89edce-b5c7-7384-7042-26cdd3fbe37b.aspx
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Summary: 1. If you use the AjaxToolkit - do not rely on the Release code that all the links point to. Use Fri Nov 10, Build. I detail some issues with the Toolkit in particular down below - but the release was severly broken. Accordian would not accordian,
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Sometimes, we just want things to work they way we expect them to - not how they are designed to do. The accordian, someone on the forums wanted to have all of the pnaels collapsed when page was loaded. I have no idea why this works - after digging through
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IFRAMES - Friend or FOE (and what you can actually do with it) Personally, I have never been a big proponent of using Iframes. But since the advent of IE6 and Firefox 1.5 - alot of the issues that were critical in considering whether or not to use them
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If you read all the mumbo jumbo on the forums and document sites for implementing Microsoft.Ajax, CTP, and the Toolkit... and you are working with a converted version of the original Community Starter Kit (CSK - nope not the other kit that uses the same
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