(Dave Hoover) Apple’s Safari browser introduced the canvas HTML element, allowing web developers to create two-dimensional drawings using a simple JavaScript API. With the recent release of Firefox 1.5, canvas took a significant step toward the mainstream (canvas is currently being considered for in

(Scott Mitchell) When debugging a project in Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003, you can view the current values of a variable by simply entering the value into the Watch window, or by hovering your mouse over the variable in the code window. While this approach worked wonderfully for simple types with sh

(OOK) One of the most annoying things about .Net / web development is its growing complexity. As time goes on programming websites becomes more and more complex and the duration of projects are often much longer. Modern code is just full of too many objects and too many lines of code.

(Krishnan) XML Stylesheet Transformation(XSLT) is defined as a language for converting XML documents to other document formats.

(Brett McLaughlin) In the last article of this series (see Resources for links), you were introduced to the Ajax applications and looked at some of the basic concepts that drive Ajax applications. At the center of this was a lot of technology that you probably already know about: JavaScript, HTML an

(Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello and Darren James) In the previous article, Creating a Double-Combo Linked List with Ajax, we built a simplified version of a double-combo script. We send a single parameter to the server, and we return a set of results for the single selected item. You may find that you

(Brett McLaughlin) For most Web developers, the task of outputting HTML, XHTML, or even XML is a trivial one: it’s just part of the everyday process of creating and deploying Web applications. While it seems a tremendous leap to move from displaying pages on the Internet to answering and responding

(Werner.Reyneke) This GPCL (General Purpose Code Library) contains some general C# code functions that I use quite often. Please feel free to use the source code and implementation samples as freely as you like, and do not hesitate to tell me what you think of it.

(Ed Tittel) The eXtensible Stylesheet Language, aka XSLT, is actually a collection of specifications for ways to transform and render XML based documents. XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) is designed specifically to take XML content and format it for hard copy printing or other forms of fixed-size pa

(Peter Coffee) It’s almost time to send first-birthday-party invitations for AJAX, a catchy label (though not a novel idea) that has quickly become the banner buzzword of standards-based interactive applications for the Web. The benefits of AJAX are far more obvious than its burdens on developers, a