In my previous article “Labels in form layouts” I wrote about how I have implemented “underlined labels” on web application forms. However, due to complexity of web appications I developed I often needed to find a way to focus a user on a current context. When I discovered jQuery...

When rolled into the page life cycle of an ASP.NET WebForm, that red bar is one of your application’s greatest enemies. No matter how well you optimize the rest of the page, even one slow task can become the sole factor determining a user’s perception of the entire page’s performance. In this post,...

The Ajax Data Controls is a DotNetSlackers open source project. Developed on top of Asp.net Ajax Extension, the main goal of this project is to provide rich set of data controls for Client Centric Development Model. Since the data controls of Asp.net like GridView, DataList, Repeater etc does not have...

I have been spending a lot of time at work developing a method to edit data in-line on a web page simply by clicking on what you want to edit. The process is something along the lines of data from a database > display on the page > edit on the page > save back into database. This concept is seen a lot...

The Calendar control becomes an essential control for business application developments since the most of data entry forms used to have one or more field for Date value. Let’s say! we are working on a page called “Candidate Resume Entry” of Recruitment System. There will be some date fields such...

This script will show you how I built a start page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET Ajax, .NET 3.0, Linq, DLinq and XLinq. I have logged my day to day development experience in this article and documented all the technical challenges, interesting discoveries and important design &...

Widget.Fader makes use of the excellent Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries. With the release of Prototype 1.6 and Scriptaculous 1.8 the script was updated and put in the Widget namespace. I’ve updated the script license: Widget.Fader is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South...

Lately I’ve been working on a pet project where I needed to freeze a GridView header so that it didn’t move while the grid records were scrolled by an end user. After searching the Web I came across a lot of “pure” CSS ways to freeze a header. After researching them more they...

If you visit Asp.net Ajax Forum, you will find hundreds of request on File Upload Control that it does not give Ajax version of the page when it is placed in an UpdatePanel. Certainly, it is not possible, as the XMLHTTPRequest object that is used internally to post the form does not support file upload....

At the moment I’m working on making a web application we just developed more user friendly and more appealing to the end users. The application uses a few ASP.NET Ajax controls so I was pretty surprised when the customer sent me an email saying that he liked all the dynamic loading and the fact...