Touch Friendly Design – Bringing Life to Lists(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 months, 2 days ago

Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world. In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can lead to user error when touching a target. Today I wanted to extend my thoughts by showing how even using a hyperlink in a list of links can be just as problematic. read more...

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Touch Friendly Design–Making Touchable Targets(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 months, 2 days ago

The way we design application clients has radically changed in the past couple of years with the proliferation of SmartPhone and tablets with touch screens. Touch is the newest common user input methodology. Sadly it seems to be broadly ignored by the developer majority. By this I want to call attention to the way we design modern web and native mobile applications, which tends to retain aspects common to legacy web sites. read more...

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Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 3: Creating The Controllers and V(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 10 months, 15 days ago

This is part 3 of a series creating a mobile web version of the MVC 3 Music Store. In this installment the core controllers and views are created. read more...

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Testing E-Mail Functionality(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 2 years, 7 months ago

If you are looking for a very robust testing utility for e-mailing applications, you need to get Neptune. This is a quick introduction to how Neptune works. Every software developer who has ever written software that sends e-mail of any kind will appreciate the features this little testing utility. read more...

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Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 2 years, 7 months ago

The past few months I have been trying to learn more about user experience and design patterns. This has led me to learn more about how to use the tools available to me to provide better user experiences, namely CSS and JQuery. I have been writing quite a bit about JQuery stuff lately, so today I am going to shift gears a little and talk about leveraging some CSS layout goodness to lay out a web form. read more...

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I Love Code Generation – Why Don’t You? (professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 2 years, 7 months ago

I have a passion for code generation. I use it everyday to create thousands upon thousands of lines of boring, routine code. In this article I explore 3 reasons why I love code generation. I hope it causes those who don't use code generation to adopt it. read more...

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Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 2 years, 7 months ago

Ever wonder how your browser knows you are typing in your first name or e-mail and magically drops down a list of suggestions? Ever wonder how you can control this action in browsers? This article explores the concept of Browser Autocomplete functionality and how to control it using ASP.NET Web Controls and HTML elements. read more...

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Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 2 years, 7 months ago

This article shows how to construct a Confirmation Dialog using the JQuery UI Dialog plugin. Confirmation dialogs are useful when you need to force a user to acknowledge something like a license, terms of use or other required content before procdeding with the application. read more...

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SEO Tip: Controlling A Site’s Title and Abstract (professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 2 months ago

There are so many factors that go into getting favorable search engine rankings in the major search engines. But having a top 3 placement is the the end of the battle, you still have to get the searcher to click on your result, and you are competing against 9 other results and the contextual ads on the page. One thing I know from doing Pay Per Click advertising (those are the contextual adds you see at the top and right of most search engine result pages) is you have to have a compelling title and description. read more...

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A Quick and Dirty Bar Code Image httpHandler(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 3 months ago

A Quick Walk Through Demonstrating how to create a custom httphandler to server bar code images. read more...

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Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples – They Are Right Under Your Nos(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 3 months ago

You have a wealth of code samples on your computer, here is how to find them!!!! An Easter Egg from Microsoft. read more...

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If You Are Not At PDC You Are Not At PDC(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 3 months ago

Not at PDC, no problem!!! We started an ad hoc virtual conference to extend PDC to the masses. read more...

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String or binary data would be truncated(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 3 months ago

This is a frustrating error that is thrown by SQL Server because it does not help us find the offending field. I review some of my techniques I use to validate data before sending it to SQL Server that help avoid this situation. read more...

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Shared Hosting and the Bleeding Edge(devlicio.us)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 4 months ago

This is a good article on how to setup your site in a share hosting environment and talks about dealing with doing frindge things with your site. There are things you need to understand if you plan on setting up your ASP.NET site in a shared environment and this article goes into some very important points. read more...

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System.UriTemplate and System.UriTemplateTable(ryanolshan.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 4 months ago

In .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft introduced two new classes named System.UriTemplate and System.UriTemplateTable, part of the System.ServiceModel.Web assembly. read more...

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Using a Singleton In an ASP.NET Application(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 5 months ago

In this article I show a quick and dirty way to store a value, such as implementing an appliction wide singleton, in the Application context of an ASP.NET application. read more...

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