Developer Visual Studio / ASP.NET
Freeze ASP.NET GridView Headers by Creating Client-Side Extenders
Lately I’ve been working on a pet project where I needed to freeze a GridView header so that it didn’t move while the grid records were scrolled by an end user. After searching the Web I came across a lot … Continue reading
Managing Projects in Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 by Michael Palermo – Interface Technical Training
One of the first tasks I tried when I installed Visual Studio 2008 was to open a Visual Studio 2005 project. I was prompted with the following: This concerned me, because I wanted to open the project in Visual Studio 2005 … Continue reading
First Look at Visual Studio .NET 2008 and the LinqDataSource
Visual Studio .NET 2008 provides many new features that will definitely enhance developer productivity. In this video tutorial I provide an introductory look at VS.NET 2008 and show a few features such as multi-targeting, split view, and the LinqDataSource control. … Continue reading
How To: Obtain Method Name Programmatically For Tracing – Michael Palermo
I am not a fan of hard-coding method names in exception or trace messages. Here is a utility method to allow access to method name at runtime: public static void TraceContext(string messageFormat) { Trace.WriteLine(string.Format(messageFormat, new System.Diagnostics.StackFrame(1).GetMethod().Name)); } If I call … Continue reading
Working with ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Properties video by Dan Wahlin
This video tutorial demonstrates the affect that the UpdatePanel’s UpdateMode and ChildrenAsTriggers properties have on updating a panel’s content. The video starts out by discussing the UpdateMode property and shows why you may want to know about it when using … Continue reading
Creating Custom ASP.NET Server Controls with Embedded JavaScript
I did some consulting work recently for a company that had a lot of JavaScript embedded in pages that was used used to perform advanced client-side functionality and make AJAX calls back to the server. The company needed additional team members … Continue reading
Simple ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks that You May (or may not) have Heard About by Dan Wahlin
ASP.NET 2.0 is an awesome framework for developing Web applications. If you’ve worked with it for awhile then that’s no secret. It offers some great new features that you can implement with a minimal amount of code. I wanted to start … Continue reading
Recursive FindControl by Michael Palermo
Need to find a control anywhere on the page or in a template? Here is the code to find it recursively. This example assumes the code is located in a custom base page. 1 public T FindControl<T>(string id) where T : … Continue reading
Calling Web Services Asynchronously with ASP.NET video by Dan Wahlin
In this video tutorial I walk through the fundamentals of calling Web Services asynchronously from an ASP.NET page using the .NET 2.0 event driven model exposed by Web Service proxy objects. There are several different options for calling Web Services … Continue reading
Creating Web Services with the .NET Framework, Video – Dan Wahlin
I’ve had several people email me and ask if I could do a video covering the fundamentals of creating a Web Service using the .NET framework. Since I enjoy working with Web Services I decided to make some time and … Continue reading
Wherever I go, there we are – Interface Technical Training
Just back from a wonderful ten days in Tokyo. Enough material to blog about for weeks: amazing food, wonderful sights, terrific people. And don’t even get me started on the toilet technology. The one we had in the Mandarin Oriental … Continue reading
WPF/E Now Includes a Downloader Feature by Dan Whalin – Interface Technical Training
WPF/E is getting better and better as new CTP releases come out. The February CTP includes several nice additions including a new downloader that allows resources used by a WPF/E application to be downloaded dynamically. As the resources are downloaded their progress … Continue reading
Video: Creating a Web Service with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
My good buddy Lorin Thwaits invited me to give a WCF talk at the Vista launch event on Feb. 3rd for the Arizona .NET User Group. Thanks to everyone who attended…I had a lot of fun and met some great … Continue reading
Calling Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript, Video – Dan Wahlin
ASP.NET AJAX provides several different ways to call Web Services including JavaScript, XML Script and the AutoCompleteExtender. In this video tutorial you’ll see how to call Web Services using JavaScript. Topics covered include creating a Web Service, applying the ScriptService … Continue reading
Debugging ASP.NET AJAX Applications with VS.NET 2005
Update: This video was created before the final release of ASP.NET AJAX and refers to the client-side debug class. This class was renamed to Sys.Debug in the final release of the product. Debugging is a key skill that every developer … Continue reading
ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Mobile 5, Bluetooth GPS and Virtual Earth
I’ve been playing around a lot lately with a great set of components from http://www.gpsdotnet.com/ that allow GPS functionality to be integrated into .NET applications. The samples included with the GPS components were awesome and made it simple to do … Continue reading
Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Triggers and PageRequestManager video by Dan Wahlin
Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX technology provides a quick and simple way to add AJAX capabilities into new or existing Web pages. In this video tutorial I discuss how to use the UpdatePanel, refresh it using triggers and detect when it has … Continue reading
Using SQL Server 2005 CLR Features to Create Aggregates
I played around with SQL Server 2005 a bit this past week to explore (more in-depth) some of the different CLR features that are available. I’ll be posting a few of the things I’ve experimented with over the next few days. One … Continue reading
