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HEADache: Including JavaScript in ASP.NET Master Pages

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:53:47 GMT

Include a Javascript file in the head of of an ASP.NET WebForms Master Page whose src attribute should contain an absolute (from Application Root) path. Sounds simple enough but it's surprisingly difficult.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 Released

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:45:00 GMT

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago. Some of the cool new features we've added to Preview 2 include...

Visual Studio: Automatically increment assembly build version

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:15:01 GMT

I always wanted to have automatic build version increment for my apps and libraries to avoid setting it manually again and again. Additionally there should be support inside Visual Studio and possibility for custom settings because I like the "date sigining" where 3 last fields are just YYYY-MM-DD. A dream come true ;) in form of Build Version Increment add-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Take an ASP.NET Application offline with HttpModules

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:30:04 GMT

Whenever you do maintenance work on a website it is advisable to show the visitors a nice message telling them politely to come back later, rather than a nasty error, or even worse: a big Yellow Screen of Death. Read how I found a solution similar to the app_offline.html approach using HttpModules and how I still allow administrators to access the website.

Protecting your precious code - Naming inside our obfuscater

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:15:00 GMT

This article introduces the beginnings of an open source obfuscator - NCloak. It continues on from previous articles in the Protecting your precious code series, and the implementation of an obfuscater using Mono.Cecil. In particular, it investigates renaming all private members as non-english characters (just like many commercial products do already) and provides the code for a basic obfuscation tool that can be reused in your products.

ASP.NET Menu with jQuery Superfish

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:00:02 GMT

Choosing the right type of menu for a website is not easy at all. The ASP.NET Menu Control is definitely NOT a good starting point due to the horrendous markup it renders. The idea is to use a modified version of the CssFriendly Menu adapter with the jQuery Superfish plugin.

Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:05 GMT

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I'll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

ASP.NET Membership - Show list of users online

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:03:53 GMT

ASP.NET Membership, Show list of users online.The MembershipProvider Class exposes the GetNumberOfUsersOnline() method which returns the number of users online. But what would it take to show a list of users online.

Enumerable.Except(T) and IEqualityComparer - a little help

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:49:12 GMT

Understand how Enumerable operators: Except, Distinct, Intersect, Union work with IEqualityComparer and take a look at an example of LINQ Except with IEqualityComparer

Binding in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:45:00 GMT

Answers to some frequently asked questions about binding data to forms in ASP.NET MVC. Covers Bind(), ModelBinders, and ViewData.Model.

run jQuery code from ASP.NET Server-Side

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:14:04 GMT

The post is the example of an approach: how you would run some jQuery code from ASP.NET code-behind (server-side). If there is a ScriptManager on the page and the request was Asynchronous, then the JavaScript code needs to be registered with ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock. If the request is just a simple standard Postback, registering the JavaScript with Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock is the solution.

Rarely used C# Keywords

Sun, 17 May 2009 15:31:02 GMT

When doing code reviews or when working with code that was developed by someone else, once in a while I come across keywords that are rarely used. Some of them are forgotten keywords that are not considered a good practice and hence are not promoted by the community. Some of them could be handy and efficient but they never made it to the limelight.

How Do You Deal With Exceptions?

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:01:09 GMT

A little post on my ideas about handling exceptions within applications. How do you handle them?

Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option

Wed, 06 May 2009 07:16:02 GMT

So let me first just start off by saying: I do not like code generation. In certain cases I think it can help greatly, but many people are far too eager to jump to this solution. I don't think that there is anything particularly evil about the process of generating code, but I do feel like using code generation as a day to day tool is a very bad practice. Code generation should be the tool of last resort when there is no good way to cleanly implement a solution which doesn't require code to be spread out everywhere.

jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender

Thu, 07 May 2009 02:46:01 GMT

The reasons why I abandoned using the CalendarExtender and choose to use the jQuery UI DatePicker instead.

How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:01:04 GMT

The problem of how to handle dates in JSON is one of the more troublesome issues that may arise when directly calling ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods.. Since the question of how I handle this problem is something asked often in emails and in comments on other posts here, I want to address the topic with its own post.

$(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:02 GMT

A few examples about how $(document).ready() and pageLoad() differ, practical examples of when both are useful, and a third alternative that is more suitable in some cases.

jQuery live() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:33:42 GMT

The jQuery (1.3+) live event and why you have to know about it when working with ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback. This post also sums up what you can use to make your jQuery $(document).ready() call work also after an asynch postback took place.

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Syntax Highlighter for Windows Live Writer 2009

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:16:14 GMT

Use this syntax highlighter plugin with Windows Live Writer 2009 to display highlighted code in your blog. The plugin automatically inserts the <pre> block around your code excerpt, and it lets you choose out of many options, based on how you would wish your highlighted code to look like. The plugin has been newly developed for ver 2.0 of http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter. Take a look at my blog to see an example or two. Use it, Kick it, It's free.

ModalPopupExtender to show a MessageBox

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:39:54 GMT

How you can use a ModalPopupExtender to display a MessageBox

Visual Studio Macros increase productivity

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:10:06 GMT

Learn basics of Visual Studio Macros, increase your productivity and decrease development time.

Refresh BlogEngine.net Posts - Clear Cache

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:21:07 GMT

From now on, whenever you need to edit your blog post files offline, you can clear the cache at the push of a button.

Top Ten Worst Things About SQL Server

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:26:26 GMT

I suppose they really apply to any database though ;)