Archive for the 'ASP.NET' Category

I started experimenting this week with MVC 3 and the new unobtrustive javascript frameworks, both for AJAX and validation. These are built around jQuery, and frankly are very nice pieces of work. There are, however, a few improvements that can be made to the Javascript files included in the distribution. You can obviously include these [...]

LABjs is an excellent javascript library that performs asynchronous loading of javascript files. This can help to greatly increase the load speed of your web pages. Now, instead of blocking while one file is being downloaded, other scripts further down the chain can be downloaded while waiting. On top of that, it can maintain processing [...]

In the last few months, I’ve discovered jQuery and jQuery UI, which are a pair pretty awesome of open source javascript libraries.  I know, I’m a little behind the times here, but all I can say is “Wow”.  Frankly, using jQuery makes the AJAX library that comes with .NET 3.0/3.5 from Microsoft seem foolish and [...]

Have you ever wanted to add a text string, like an application name, to the title of all your web pages. It’s easy to do using the control adapters available in ASP.NET 2.0 and later. First, create a new .browser file in the App_Browsers folder of your application, or add this entry to an existing [...]

Frankly, it’s always a pain to create ASP.NET machine keys for each of your web applications. I’ve written a little helper app that creates the <machineKey> section for your web.config file for you, with options for various encryption and validation algorithms. Special thanks go to Ben Strackany, who’s article ASP.NET: MachineKey Generator I used as [...]