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asp.net Elegant web forms: wrap up and example To conclude the series on elegant web forms, I will walk you through a full example of a simple company and contact management tool. The app in itself doesn’t do much, but it serves to illustrate the points mentioned in the previous posts.
asp.net jQuery Templates and ASP.NET User Controls After my previous article, where I showed you how to use user controls as views, in this post I will show you how to mix in some jQuery templating. The jQuery templates plugin is basically a way to make views in JavaScript, much like
asp.net The Repeater – User Control Pattern In my previous post in this series I showed you how a repeater is a very clean ASP.NET server control. It has a few problems though: You cannot bind to a strongly-typed object. If you want alternating items you have to write the
asp.net The coolest ASP.NET server control My favorite control, hands down, in the ASP.NET toolbox is the Repeater. Why? Because is it’s the cleanest of them all. The repeater does what it says, nothing less, nothing more: it repeats. Just to show you the difference between a simple
asp.net AJAX with jQuery and web services In this post I will show you how you can use jQuery to call ASP.NET web services (.asmx). Some people prefer to use page methods, but I find it nicer to group all my AJAX-related calls in one web service. That service then
asp.net Useful Javascript extensions In my previous post I added the extensions.js-file to my JavaScript library. I did this because I feel there are some things that I often do and I abstracted them out to a kind of library on top of jQuery. I will walk
asp.net Setup and tools In this post I will talk you through the basic setup of our web application and all the tools you need. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do all these steps manually, I will provide you with a new project template later
asp.net Preface In this series of posts I will be talking about and demonstrating some concepts on how to make web forms programming more elegant. With ASP.NET web forms, sometimes things can get quite messy. This is mostly because ASP.NET wants to hide that
