Jeff Cranford's Blog

Server Control to Server Control data sharing

Recently, I had to implement an in-page communication system between custom server controls. Essentially, all controls had to have access to a shared property at any point in the Page life cycle INCLUDING design-time. So, when this shared property changes

Pushing callback technology to the limit. LivePaint (Part I).

I wanted to try to see how close to “real-time” my company's “callback-enabled“ LiveControls could come in terms of communication with the server. It occurred to me that a cross-browser web paint application would be a great test

Swag at Tech-Ed 2005!

What happens to us when we get into a conference setting? Here I am, a grown adult, father, husband, going up to another adult and meekly saying "Hey, what do you have to do to get one of those weeble-wobble business card holders?". One company had a

JavaScript on demand!

A few months ago, my company released a new product ( LiveControls for ASP.NET ) that we periodically find a new use for that was not in the original design. To save you a trip to the website, this product is a suite of server controls which use callback