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Sep 07

My New Blog - http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/

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Thanks to Joe Stagner for setting up a blog for me. I will be posting over there from here on. I will also incrementally import the older posts. Please update your links. I am expecting the feed readers will not bothered as the feedburner account will be the same. Sorry for the inconvenience, I promise you will find me for a long time blogging in that ......

Posted On Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:09 PM General

Sep 07

Asp.net Ajax Web Service - Common Issues

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My new article has been just published for September Ajax Column in DotNetSlackers.com. In this article, I have answered few common issues which I found often discussed in Asp.net Ajax Web Service Forum. In this column, I have covered: Web Service Method, succeededCallback and failedCallback methods signature. Complex data type interchange which includes ......

Posted On Monday, September 17, 2007 3:44 PM Asp.net Ajax , Article

Sep 07

Compress Asp.net Ajax Web Service Response - Save Bandwidth

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In this post, I will show you how to compress the Asp.net Ajax Web Service response, To understand the benefits of compression let us start with a simple example, Consider you have an web service which returns a large data like the following:[WebMethod()] public string GetLargeData() { using (StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(Server.MapPat... ......

Posted On Saturday, September 15, 2007 6:09 AM Asp.net Ajax , Tips/Tricks , Web Service

Sep 07

Asp.net ListView - Data Editing

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In my previous post, I have shown the data binding capabilities of ListView control. In this post, I will show the Data Editing power of ListView. Like the previous DataGrid, DataList and GridView controls the ListView control has the EditItemTemplate and it also comes up with the long awaited InsertItemTemplate, in the past there was a lot of attempt ......

Posted On Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:17 PM Asp.net , ListView

Sep 07

Asp.net ListView - DataBinding

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In my previous post, I have presented few cool css examples of the new Asp.net ListView control. In this post, I will show how you can setup the data binding of the ListView control with the new LinqDataSource control as well as through code, which outputs the previous post examples. Like its ancestor, the ListView comes up with few templates and some ......

Posted On Sunday, September 9, 2007 1:18 AM Asp.net , ListView

Sep 07

Asp.net ListView - Too much CSS Friendly

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My First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from CSS Table Gallery and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the result of Northwind Customer table: Simply Rocking! I will be covering the other features of this cool control in my future posts. Stay tuned. Download: Full Source ......

Posted On Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:22 AM Asp.net , ListView

Aug 07

Showing Modal Progress Dialog in all Ajax Operation

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If you ever like to show a Modal Progress dialog like the above for any ajax operation no matter which Update Panel or Web Service call is responsible for it, the following code will do the same.<%@ Page Language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml... ......

Posted On Friday, August 24, 2007 7:13 PM Asp.net Ajax , Tips/Tricks

Aug 07

Book Review - Asp.net Ajax Update Panel

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I recently did a review on Asp.net Ajax Update Panel of O'Reilly which is now published in DotNetSlackers.com. Check it out.

Posted On Friday, August 17, 2007 1:27 PM Asp.net Ajax , Book Review

Aug 07

My New Article - Effective Error Logging in Asp.net Ajax

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My latest article Asp.net Ajax Error Logging has been just published in DotNetSlackers.com. In this article, I have demonstrate how to extend Asp.net Ajax Framework to create an effective error logging system which support multiple trace listeners like Enterprise Library. A must read if you are developing or planning to develop an Asp.net Ajax Web Application. ......

Posted On Monday, August 13, 2007 12:09 AM Asp.net Ajax , Article , Instrumentation/Logging

Aug 07

Loading UserControl Dynamically in UpdatePanel

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In this post, I will show you how to load different user control in UpdatePanel from different menu item click. I have found a lot of request in Asp.net Ajax Forum and some of them are having misconception about this. Once you complete reading this post you will be able to load controls dynamically and learn how to employ different helper controls like ......

Posted On Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:48 PM Asp.net Ajax , Tips/Tricks