Come across an interesting website for web development.

The site contains helpful tips on CSS, ASP, ASP.Net, Ajax and much more.

Check it out at www.jankoatwarpspeed.com 

This site i find really handy.  It takes a rough-as-you-like chunk of javascript and formats it in a readle fashion with keyword colouring and everything

http://javascript.about.com/library/blformat.htm

There's a lot of nasty looking script out there, somtimes intentionally faux-obfuscated to protect their inner-workings, but this site overcomes that with ease

Hi All

After a sparse month on Scott's blog, he has released a new set of links for all the new technology running around at the moment

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/20/may-20th-links-asp-net-asp-net-ajax-net-visual-studio-silverlight-wpf.aspx

Mike Ormond even had time to write 50 (!!) screencasts about different things.  He's a great speaker and his screencasts are always very factual and concise.  Even the more obscure speakers have some really interesting content and it's refreshing to see that there's always more thna one way to skin cat :¬)

Enjoy

Tim

Microsoft just released the BETA SP1 update to the 3.5 Framework but the picrute isn't all that rosy

Scott adds a whole load of caveats to a successful installation, including the fact that you need Vista SP1 and you can't have the Silverlight 2.0 Beta installed in any way shape or form.  looks like i'll have to give it a miss until it's final release later in the summer :¬(

Check out what he says : http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx

However, it is packed with new features for WPF and even has some in-built URL-Rewriting classes for out-of-the-box SEO @ last!!

Also, just read that classic ASP support is back in so there's a very good feature right there!!

Recently launching NETTUTS at the end of April by the highly successful PSDTUTS team.

http://nettuts.com

Here you'll be able to find:
- step by step web builds
- html css techniques
- flash effects and techniques
- Javascript and AJAX
- Dreamweaver and other tools
- ... And general web dev skills

As stated on the launch page http://nettuts.com/news/launch/
They'll be adding content every week or so, a site definately to watch for the future...

Fancy writting a tutorial guys and seeing $150 for it ???

Hi

I came up with this solution a while back.  I had a GridView which i needed to display a kind of Master/Detail scenario.  I decided to use the ModalPopupextender as it forces the user to do stuff or cancel before the rest of the page executes and the ModalPopup seemed perfect.  however, having too many on the form is a bit wasteful so i went about exploring having only 1 ModalPopupExtender for my entire application and having all pages which needed it just add their stuff to it and pop it themselves, wiring up the OK and Cancel events to something both the MasterPage and the ContentPage could have access to.

It's a bit long winded to post but i attach the files here in response to a post on asp.net about a similar problem with a GridView having too many modal popups.  Feel free to post any suggestions here and i will try and update the code with any new features :¬)

You will need to add the AjaxControlToolkit.dll to the bin folder to get it working.  And it's written in Visual Studio 2008 so you might need to change the toolkit version if you're running asp.net AJAX version 1

cheers

Tim

ModalPopupTest.zip (5.03 kb)

Scott, being "de man" that he is has posted a really nice reference page on all the blogs and videos he found useful to explain all the new technology that's been release. 

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/03/28/march-28th-links-asp-net-asp-net-ajax-asp-net-mvc-visual-studio-silverlight-net.aspx

Plenty of stuff in there to keep you busy!!

Lewis came across a goot tutorial on how to create your own ajax extenders for the standard controls in  the ASP.Net toolkit

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/08/08/creating-an-asp-net-ajax-toolkit-extender-control.aspx gives a good walkthrough on how to extend the GridView control to disply like an Excel srepadhseet with frozen headers and all that good stuff, well as much good stuff as you can get in Excel

i'm going to run through and extend the GridView as described in the article but maybe it's a moot point now that we have the ListView control in .net 3.5. It does, however, open it up for older sites which need some richer functionality while still using the .net 2 framework

I still enjoy using the Ajax Framework and toolkit alot so it's good that there's still life left in it and they've not dropped it completely yet!!

yay, at last!!  Microsoft have released the first beta version of Silverlight 2, formerly Silverlight 1.1

Looking at the post (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/05/asp-mediaplayer-and-asp-silverlight-controls-update.aspx), there looks to be some really nice controls out-of-the-box, including asp:MediaPlayer and a raft of asp:SilverLight stuff

Highly exciting stuff.  Also, i hear they've overcome the asynchronous file upload via some special privilege method whereby client-side code can access user-verified files and upload them so i'm eager to see how this works in production

Feature rich comparedf to the previous version >> http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx

and an SDK for Visual Studio 2008 >>  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en

Yarr :¬)

Reading through Dzone last night I came across two interesting links.

The first link being 13 top Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts, I'm not sure how crazy you guys are at using keyboard shortcuts but I rarely touch the mouse!!
http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/top-13-visual-studio-keyboard-

The second link is something more techy for you kids!!
Nice post on asp.net and ajax forms.
http://encosia.com/2008/03/04/why-my-aspnet-ajax-forms-are-never-submitted-twice/ 

Hope you guys find these useful!