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As I dig deeper and deeper into AJAX and client side programming in my ASP.NET web apps, more and more logic is being moved from managed code behind my UIs to lose JavaScript files and script controls. Of course, this means that more and more debugging Read More...

Today must be national "IE 6 Is A Piece Of Dog Crap" day... I’m using some JavaScript in a script control to hook mouseover on a table element using $addHandler and a callback (so I can pass a parameter to my event handler), like so: $addHandler(tableInstance, Read More...

In a recent post , I discussed how to open a web page in Excel…that is, in the actual Excel Office application, not in a crap-like Excel browser window. Well, the users loved it and inevitably wanted more. Whenever you see Excel exportation in your requirements, Read More...

I am working on what I call the “TreeJAX” control. It a tree that is bound to a hierarchical collection of objects. The root node is built in code on the control’s load method. Then, whenever a node is clicked, I use ASP.NET AJAX JSON asynchronous web Read More...

Here’s a little trick I came up with to “handle” the “event” when the user clicks the close (X) button on Internet Explorer. I use quotes because there really isn’t an event for this action, and what I do with it isn’t really handling an event either. Read More...

Now don’t get me wrong: compared to all other control suites I’ve used, ASP.NET AJAX has been, in terms of the whiz-bang-features-slash-make-my-life-easier vs. deal-with-the-hell-of-trying-to-make-other-people’s-code-do-exactly-what-I-want metric, the Read More...