Ben Griswold on December 13th, 2008

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) or [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 11th, 2008

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 [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 14th, 2008

I’ve created a number of user and server controls for my C# web applications.  Recently, however, I’ve found myself working in Silverlight and, if you are of the same opinion as me, you believe Silverlight was missing a few core controls.  Specifically, Silverlight was missing a TextBox with password masking and a CombBox until Monday’s [...]

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