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Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls
I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this Read More...
Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown
When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you must Read More...
New DevNugget: Silverlight Styling 101
Pete Brown returns with another installment of Silverlight expertise: You can view episode 1 here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
New DevNugget: Silverlight Controls and Composition
Local Silverlight expert Pete Brown from Applied Information Sciences was kind enough to help me out with some new content for my DevNuggets video series. If you haven't seen them before, DevNuggets are 8-10 minute screencasts that illustrate specific Read More...
Need "Out of the Box" AJAX Functionality for Your Data Controls?
I've been using the Ajax Data Controls (ADC) for 9 months. I recently joined their development team to convert the controls to VS 2008/.NET 3.5. It's a really cool control set that uses AJAX for the complete data transaction. The documentation is pretty Read More...
Silverlight Control Skin Sets
Corrina Barber has publish four different Silverlight control skin sets that looks very nice and shows the power of skinning in Silverlight .         See online previews of each skin: http://www.corrina_b.members.winisp.net/skins/bubbly/Testpage.html Read More...
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing Read More...
Nintendo Wii and Silverlight: Tracking Your Fingers
While writing my Silverlight wish list I found a very nice project. Johnny Ching Lee is using the controller (Wiimote) of the Nintendo Wii to track fingers . The controller does not need the Nintendo Wii console, simple the controller and a bluetooth Read More...
AJAX Control toolkit and TFS Presentations
Tuesday 30th October and Wednesday 31st October, I am doing a presentation on the AJAX Control Toolkit . It is part of the readify developer network series of presentations. I am doing a primer presentation which is more introductory and runs for a relatively Read More...
Dodgy Debugging
In a previous post , I mentioned an obscure ASP.NET issue that had me scratching my head for a while. In order to track it down, I had to resort some dodgy debugging techniques which I wouldn't call exactly scientific nor particularly complex, but they Read More...