(Ged Mead) I’ve seen this kind of question lots of times in the forums: "Help! I want to show a ProgressBar while I’m [doing something], but I don’t know how long the process will take." The ‘doing something’ varies, but is often to do with downloading uploading, accessing files, reading from databa
Tag: Development
Animated pop-ups using the ASP.NET AJAX framework
(Purushottam Rathore) In this article, I am going to show how to create pop-ups in your ASP.NET application using the ASP.NET AJAX framework and the ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit.
N-Layered Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5 Part 2: Introducing the Validation Framework
(Imar Spaanjaars) This is part 2 of a six-part series of articles on N-Layer design using ASP.NET 3.5. This article series builds on top of my article series on N-Layer design that I released in early 2007. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out these articles first, as a lot of code a
Truncate a Path String
(Srinath MS) Sometimes you need to truncate a long path string to make it fit in a control. Currently, there is no .NET class that provides this functionality. The workaround is to use the Windows Shell function (PathCompactPathEx).
Getting the Clipboard File DropEffect in VB.Net
(Scott Bright) In VB6, you could use various API calls to get the File Drop List of files on the Clipboard as well as a couple of more calls to get the DropEffect that told whether the files where Copied or Cut from the Windows File Explorer.
Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Retrieving Server-Side Data Using Web Services
(Scott Mitchell) Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX framework offers two models for developing interactive web applications: client-centric and server-centric. With the server-centric model, developers use the standard ASP.NET controls – the GridView, Buttons, TextBoxes, and so forth – but place them within a
Creating CollapsiblePanelExtender Functionality using ASP.NET and jQuery
(Suprotim Agarwal) I had recently written an article ASP.NET AJAX CollapsiblePanelExtender – Tips and Tricks which showed how to use the ASP.NET AJAX CollapsiblePanelExtender control to easily add collapsible sections to your web page. In this article, I will show you how to create a similar functio
ASP.NET MVC Tip #46 – Don’t use Delete Links because they create Security Holes
(Stephen Walther) I created a sample ASP.NET MVC application that I plan to post at the http://ww.ASP.net/mvc website. While the application was being code reviewed by the ASP.NET MVC Feature team, a surprising objection surfaced.
Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection
(Amit Raz) Lately I was working on an application that had to display a large amount of objects on screen and allow filtering. I have learned that scrolling large collections was not so simple in WPF, and I definitely did not see the problems coming.
Coding Better: Using Classes vs. Interfaces
(Matthew Cochran) We basically have two different ways to provide abstractions in our source code: Classes and Interfaces. First, let’s look at the differences between a class and an interface. The biggest and most apparent difference is that a class can hold functional logic while an interface is
