Interesting ASP.NET UI tips from Infragistics

I really should be asleep (it's 1:30am - I need sleep!). Anyway, whilst my self-imposed insomnia is still in control, I foung this interesting little article on "10 Rock-Solid UI Tips" at the Infragistics site. Some pretty useful little tidbits there, althougn…

Cool little stats thing...

I've just written a little HttpModule which lets me see incoming requests in real-time, very interesting to see just what weird and wonderful clients are hitting this site - way more than I actually thought which is nice...also very interesting just how easy…

Quick answer...

How do you enable caching for the RSS control? Well, in the RssDisplay.ascx, add the following line after the <%@ Page%>declaration: <%@ OutputCache Duration="1200" VaryByParam="none"%> This will cache the output (and therefore, the webrequest to the rss feed)…

Pure ASP.NET file upload...I have my doubts...

OK, maybe someone 'in the know' can settle this, is it possible to upload large files efficiently purely using ASP.NET? I've been following a threadin the ASP.NET forums about providing a method to do this using HttpHandlers / Modules to do this. What confuses…

Another busy weekend - and using Dynamically loaded user controls the easy way

Well, spent the weekend working again - had a sudden stroke of inspiration about a work project, much refactoring later, I have a more stable and flexible implementation. I may write about this in more detail at a later date, got some pretty cool stuff going…

An article I really have to write - oh the woes of being lazy...just why the hell does everyone use DataGrids?

One thing that really puzzles me in the ASP.NET forums (apart from having to be moderated...which is a whole other story) is that practically everyone seems hell-bent on using the DataGrid. Why? What am I missing; I VERY rarely need to use a DataGrid, a…

Another in the 'things I didn't know but really should've done" - you can disable Client Side validation with client-side script...

OK umm, actually quite embarassed about this one...I just discovered this was possible...so I can emit a bit of Javascript which lets me disable validation on a control when some condition is met here's this bit from MSDN: Client-Side APIs Some additional…

What on earth is going on at ASPToday.com

I've been a fan ofASPToday for a while, but some very odd things are going on there at the moment...first is the sporadic downtime the site is having, then there's the distinct paucity of articles recently, they had a run with great new articles - then they…

Really useful Web Service tools

One of my colleagues, Jonny Anderson pointed out these really useful web service tools on GotDotNet, the Web Service Studio Tool is just remarkably useful for debugging and otherwise playing around with Web Services...

What ever happened to Mark Anders?

Along with Scott Guthrie, Mark was one of the fathers of ASP.NET - is he presenting at PDC...what's he working on now? The talks given by Mark (and Rob Howard) at the Wrox Professional ASP developers' conference in London in 1999 were my first taste of the…