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Earlier today I posted about a Recursive Find Control Extension Method . I was informed recently by Steve Smith that I should check out the generic find control method which Aaron Robson has on his blog . He has some pretty nice methods there, so I just
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So one of the most useful methods for ASP.NET development that never seems to be included in ASP.NET is a recursive find control method. This problem results from the standard FindControl method on controls only searching within that control. It only
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One problem I've noticed on a bunch of sites is a large amount of ViewState. I'm not going to sit here and explain all about ViewState. There are PLENTY of sources for information on that piece of technology. So in an extremely short description of what
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So I am finally sitting down to play with the ASP.NET MVC Framework. I've installed Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. You can obtain a 90 day free trial of Visual Studio 2008 from Microsoft if you don't own a copy. There are also Express Editions of Visual
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There are plenty of AJAX tools being used everyday. The AJAX Control Toolkit can be likened to a pack of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans ; there are far too many choices. Some tools you'll love and some are as useless to you as an earwax flavored bean.
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I've recently come across a large number of blog posts talking about a new Rich Text Editor on CodePlex released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). Some of the blog posts talking about this interesting control can be found here , here , here
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One question that seems to come up often in the asp.net forums is from people who are trying to access controls within controls using templates. LoginViews and CreateUserWizard controls are two commonly used templated controls. These templated controls
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Earlier today I was trying to debug a Stack Overflow Exception I was receiving. While debugging I was stepping into the function where the problem was occurring. I could not seem to find the problem. A line of code was calling a function and passing it
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In order to use an update panel you have to specify the triggers either individually or by setting the ChildrenAsTriggers property of the UpdatePanel. Sometimes you may need to set these triggers dynamically such as if the desired trigger is inside of
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Recently I had forgotten how to access the ScriptManager in my MasterPage from one of the Content Pages. There is a static method on the ScriptManager class called GetCurrent() which will allow access to the current instance of a ScriptManager. This is
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post about Accessing a property of a base page from a user control , I am going to explain how to access a property on a MasterPage from the content page. One merely has to check the namespace and the class name of the
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Earlier today I was helping someone who was working with a user control. That control was on an ASP.NET page which was inheriting from a base page. From the user control he could not access the properties of the base page. He mentioned that he was getting
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Yesterday, I updated my SimpleCMS plug-in for ASP.NET . It is a free CMS designed to be different from most content management systems. It is not supposed to include tons of features and be some bloated system. It is designed to be an add-on for an existing
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In this new age when the Internet is becoming the medium of choice, blogs are rapidly gaining momentum. It is nice to be able to get information direct from the experts in any area. The ease with which one is able to obtain this information is astounding,
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With the power that search engines seem to have now, it has become difficult to design anything without considering them. Anytime I am trying to find anything I check Google first, and I often use Google to search sites that have their own searches. One
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