DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with ASP.NET

Janko At Warp Speed reached 1000+ subscribers!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:36:18 GMT

After four months of blogging Janko At Warp Speed broke the boundary of 1000 subscribers. Another milestone that this blog celebrates is 200,000+ visits! One thing is for sure - this couldn't be done without your comments, emails, constructive criticism and all your help. THANK YOU!

ASP.NET AJAX Server Control Book Give away!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:02:47 GMT

An ASP.NET AJAX Server Control programming contest hosted by Dave Ward!

jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:57:54 GMT

With WebForms, integrating with Ajax libraries other than ASP.NET AJAX was slightly painful. With the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, however, you can use jQuery without these additional headaches.

GlassBox

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:57:21 GMT

Nice JQuery-based glass-looking web gui.

13 features I'd like to see in BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:15 GMT

As you probably know by now I use BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. In order to become more powerful engine I suggest thirteen (more or less) common features, like ability to unsubscribe from comment notifications, group comments&trackbacks and much more.

Integrating Google Maps into an ASP.NET page

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:13:02 GMT

While Microsoft have released their new Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control, I still haven't found a decent wrapper that converts addresses to langitude and longitude co-ordinates. There is a Geo coder web service available here (this shows the co-ordinates for the White House) but it seems to only work for US addresses, which doesn't help me at all. So for the moment, I'm still using Google Maps, and have prepared the following to show you how to integrate Google Maps into your ASP.NET pages.

Remove Name Mangling from ASP.Net Master Pages

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:01:25 GMT

Master Pages in ASP.Net will mess up the IDs of your controls - here is a handy snippet which will allow you to use getElementById with the normal control ID (no more worrying about the mangled name).

SEO friendly pagination using asp:DataPager control

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:40:42 GMT

This article shows how to paginate (SEO friendly) a ListView using DataPager control without enabling ViewState.

Building AJAX Applications using ASP.Net AJAX

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:49:25 GMT

The implementation of AJAX enabled application is made easy with the help of 2 new controls called UpdatePanel control and ScriptManager control in ASP.Net AJAX framework. This are the two primary controls that makes AJAX happen with very less effort. This article will help us understand the usage of these two new controls by implementing a sample application.

Open popup windows in IE/Firefox and return values using ASP.NET

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:31:16 GMT

This article explains how to transfer values between the Parent page and a Pop-up window. The code has been tested against IE7 and Firefox.

WebService Documentation: Using a custom Site Map

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:34:09 GMT

How to use a custom SiteMapProvider to build a menu of WebMethods in a WebService.

Dependency Injection and Webform Applications

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:15:36 GMT

This post discusses how I implement dependency injection with WebForm applications using a base class for pages. I use Windsor; however, the DependencyResolver class is written to be swapped out with an implementation of IDependencyResolver so that you can use any DI framework.

ASP.NET MVC Forms With Validation Framework Open Sourced

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:28:46 GMT

The MVC Forms With Validation framework is now open sourced. A google code repository has been created. The framework received a lot of attention when posted, so check out the google code project and try it out in your own applications!

Inserting a new record from the Listview's footer

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:14:09 GMT

The Listview control introduced in ASP.NET 3.5 fixes a number of issues with the old Gridview and Repeater controls. In particular, one of my biggest problems with the Gridview was the inability to add an item through an empty row in the Gridview footer. While there are several workarounds to achieve this functionality, the Listview makes it nice and easy. This article demonstrates how.

Strategies for resource-based 404 errors in ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:18:51 GMT

There are already a couple of patterns for handling 404 errors in ASP.NET MVC that deal with non-existent routes, controllers or actions. But what happens when a user invokes a valid action on a valid controller, and the requested resource - product, article, sub-category etc - doesn't exist?

Blunt Architecture

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:42:00 GMT

A new open source lightweight web application framework built on the ASP.NET MVC framework showcasing ALT.NET best practices such as: Domain driven design Test driven development Inversion of control / dependency injection Model view controller

How To Setup Custom Theme Support In ASP.NET MVC using a Custom ViewEn

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:28:41 GMT

One option to do theming in ASP.NET MVC is to use the standard ASP.NET Theme functionality (App_Themes folder glory and all), but it just doesn't seem complete. Also, by doing that you don't get to generate completely custom HTML specific to each Theme. After all, the beauty of ASP.NET MVC is being able to completely control the HTML output of the application. So, I played around with things a bit and figured out how to create a custom ViewEngine that will allow you to create a seperate sub-folder within the Views folder for each Theme. This way you can have a completely different version of each View for each Theme, and maintain complete control over the HTML output on a per Theme basis.

Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:06:19 GMT

Have you ever seen a presentation of ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC framework? There is one particular slide that keeps coming back, stating that every step in the ASP.NET MVC life cycle is pluggable. Let's find out if replacing one of these components is actually easy by creating a custom ViewEngine and corresponding view.

Best possible url format in asp.net mvc on IIS6

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:03:59 GMT

A URL format for asp.net mvc which will work in iis 6 also

Deploying ASP.Net Applications

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:19:51 GMT

This article targets developer community to have some of the rudimentary knowledge on deployment of ASP.Net application on IIS 6.0.Virtual Directories and Creating it.Application Pools, Creating Application Pools and why it is used?Use of service accounts in App Pools.web.Config Settings and using Web.Config Settings for debugging errors.Common hindrance we may possibly face during deployment and resolutions.

ASP.NET MVC Application Building #2: Family Video Website

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:47:19 GMT

Stephen Walther:ASP.NET MVC Application Building #2: Family Video Website - Add the Database

How To Use ASP.NET MVC in Website rather than Web Application Project

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:31:51 GMT

I recently started getting to know the ASP.NET MVC Framework (more specifically the Preview 4 release). The first thing I noticed upon installation is that it only comes with a Web Application Project Template. There is no regular ASP.NET Website template. So, I decided to try converting the Web Application Project Template to a regular ASP.NET Website. I actually prefer to use Website projects instead of Web Application projects since it gives a little more flexibility to deploy changes to the website after the website is already live. Plus, you can still throw anything you want into a DLL that goes into the Bin if you want.

New blog on ASP.net and web standards

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:11:50 GMT

Come and see! If you are an ASP.net developer, you cannot ignore the world is turning to web standards!

.aspx extension instead of .php? WHY???

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:55:35 GMT

For some reasons, there are people people who write web sites in PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY???

Joe Stagner: SQL Server files for my Data Access Videos

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:14:21 GMT

A couple of folks have emailed me because that haven't been able to reconstitute the Video Database I've been using in the Data Access video tutorials. Here is a .zip file. http://www.misfitgeek.com/downloads/SQLDATA_VideoDirectory.zip It contains a .mdf as well as a .sql script and the data exported to an Excel file. Hope it helps.