In the spirit of the New Year, I’ve decided to try something new and I’m going to publish professional retrospectives at the end of each month. Each retrospective will provide a summary of what I’ve been up to over the past 30-or-so days along with my plans for the up-coming month. These entries will eventually [...]
A little while back I shared with Jon Galloway my frustration with Silverlight. Now, if you don’t know Jon, come out from under your rock. He’s a Microsoft MVP, host of the Herding Code Podcast, and author of The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks. He’s a longtime blogger, a Twitterer, code [...]
Continue reading about Candid Reaction to WPF and Silverlight
jTemplates is a jQuery plugin and template engine for Javascript. If you keep up with Dave Ward and/or Rick Strahl you may already be familiar with jTemplates as they have both highlighted the plugin on their respective bolgs. About 1.5 months ago, however, I got into the action and started using jTemplates in conjunction with [...]
Continue reading about jTemplates with jQuery, AJAX and Json
As javascript libraries, particularly jQuery, increase in popularity so do web techniques using AJAX and JSON. Have you ever seen this code? It is front and back of an ASPX file with the single responsibility to return JSON data per an AJAX request. GetDataPage.aspx <%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” CodeFile=”GetDataPage.aspx.cs” Inherits=”GetDataPage” %> <%– This minimal code [...]
FlexBox is a jQuery plugin that is intended to be a very flexible replacement for HTML textboxes and dropdowns using AJAX to retrieve and bind JSON data. Okay. Now what is FlexBox exactly? It is a dynamic control which can present itself as a combobox with per-result HTML templates, a suggest box (like Google search) [...]
The Cache Helper Class has been updated so that it is no longer limited by the generic constraint. The original post has been updated along with a sample project for download. Let me know what think. I know I’m much happy with this solution. As always, thanks for your comments and thanks for letting me [...]
I’ve publicly praised SubSonic and SSMS Tools Pack, but I haven’t posted adequate information on how one installs and uses the tools for their own development. A colleague of mine was lucky enough to inherit my application recently and having this information documented would have come in really handy. All the same, I gave a [...]
Scott Guthrie recently posted about a cool new ASP.NET server control that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios. If you had a look at the ASP.NET Charting Control offering, you may have noticed how obnoxiously similar the charts and sample project looks compared to that provided by [...]