By Brian Dukes on
4/12/2007 7:19 AM
When developing code for .NET, there are a number of attributes that you can define on parts of your code to make your job easier while you are debugging. These are new in .NET 2.0, and part of the System.Diagnostics namespace.
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By Brian Dukes on
3/1/2007 4:11 PM
Yesterday, version four of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK was released (as noted in this blog post, V4 VS SDK Targeting VS 2005 Released!). While I don't plan on developing any Visual Studio add-ins or extensions, I noticed that the SDK included SandCastle, which is a tool to build documentation based on your inline XML comments. If you're working with large or distant groups, it can help to compile some of your work into a readable API document, and SandCastle will do that for you. You'll need to go to http://www.sandcastledocs.com/ to get an automation script or GUI, since this release doesn't include any interface. Get it here: Visual Studio 2005 SDK version 4.0.
Also released recently was the March CTP for Visual Studio Codename "Orcas." This release includes a number of pretty cool updates to the IDE, including the new web form editor...
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By Brian Dukes on
2/26/2007 3:44 PM
The Rating control from the AjaxControlToolkit has been of use to use as we work on some of our websites that use our Engage: Publish module. However, we needed to make a change to the style of the container around the Rating in order to change a background image from saying "Please rate!" to "Thanks for rating." We tried wrapping it in an UpdatePanel to get at the CssClass, but we couldn't get it to react. Eventually, we got the following javascript to work (which needs to be declared after divRating is declared).
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By Brian Dukes on
2/26/2007 1:50 PM
Since the 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, we've been making use of the new functionality offered us through AJAX, both from the core extensions and through the AjaxControlToolkit. However, we've run into a road block a number of times when we're tried to use the new UpdatePanel control to add some AJAX responsiveness into our web pages. In short, we hadn't ever gotten it to work.
Recently, some clients were pressing us for some functionality that required UpdatePanels (or diving much deeper than we liked into JavaScript), so after another failed attempt at partial rendering, I handed the project over to a colleague to see if he might have any better luck. Fortunately, he was able to search out the information we needed. I had seen Jon Henning's blog post about integrating UpdatePanels into DNN, but it was rather old, so I didn't...
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By Brian Dukes on
2/7/2007 11:00 AM
Sometimes, you have elements on your webpage (such as a Solpart menu or the greyed-out background of a ModalPopup) that you want to display over an embedded Flash element. And they don't. And it's frustrating.
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By Brian Dukes on
2/5/2007 4:50 PM
With the 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX, we have started integrating controls from the control toolkit into some of our DotNetNuke modules. We've come across a couple of issues with the ModalPopup control in the (admittedly still Beta) AJAX control toolkit.
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