Web development is all about breaking up your application into pieces. Multiple pages make up a site.  UserControls are used to break up pages into smaller pieces, and custom libraries are often used for either framework value, or as GUI libraries.  Any time you start working with these scenarios, assemblies and references are going to ...

Microsoft is about to ship Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  Now service patches aren't always very exciting, but these are because they contain some great new features.  You've probably already heard the buzz around AJAX History support, and Dynamic Data.  Script Combining is also part of SP1, and it's something ...

I've been talking a lot lately about using the ASP.NET AJAX client library (which I'm going to refer to as AACL in this post) without the server-side controls, mostly in the context of ASP.NET MVC.  Now, I'm not necessarily recommending that you use it over any of the other fine JavaScript libraries out there (jQuery and MooTools come to ...

I've written about moving the <%@ Register TagPrefix ... %> directives out of your ASPX pages, and into your web.config.  But one thing I never talked about was - how to do that step.  I always did it manually, but about a year ago, I remember talking with one of the developers on the Project Upgrade Utility.. Well, that discussion ...

Before I even get started, a quick side note.  I initially assumed I should write LINQ [all caps] since it is an acronym (from what I recall), but I decided to go with the .NET Framework namespace capitalization instead.  I should have learned my lesson with AJAX or Ajax, or however you want to write it. ;) Ok, back to the point.  ...

Just wanted to write up a blog entry about my experience upgrading my Beta 2 and RC installations of Visual Studio 2008 (which I will forever call ''Orcas'') to the RTM version.  Hopefully this may save some of you from wasting a few hours of your life as I did... I had the Orcas RC installed on both my laptop and home workstation, having ...

Whenever working with an image generator in an ASP.NET applications, you have difficult tradeoffs that you must face.  Usability Vs. Scalability.  Application Security Vs. Information Security, etc.  With the Infragistics WebChart many of these scenarios are taken care of with options to use Session State or the ...

This post is about a wonderfully embarrassing experience I had recently from which you can (hopefully) learn something.  Or - at the very least - this can serve as a reminder of what you already know.  Recently a few guys from our IS team and I locked ourselves in a room for a few days and scoured through the code for the entire website ...

So in the past I've talked about the Infragistics Samples Browser, and modifications I've made on it.  Last release I spent a great deal of time re-vamping the samples browser in an effort to make it more maintainable.  Well, it's samples time again here at Infragistics.  Time to get ready for the next release, and time to ...

If you do web development, you know that there's an easy way and a hard way to do just about anything.  We spend so much time just trying to 'get it done' sometimes, that we don't have a chance to see what tools are available to help.  I'm going to list a few tools that I use almost daily, and I think it would be great if you ...

After designing an application and building it for IE7, I was finally ready to try it out in IE6.  If you haven't already, download the Virtual PC image from Microsoft for IE6 testing.  I was pleasantly surprised that for the most part, everything worked perfectly!  There were some issues that I knew I was going to run into, since I ...

I've been spending my days lately working on the Infragistics Samples Browser.  This monstrous application has over 10,000 files, and is composed of 3  separate mini-applications.  Working on an application of this size is a mind altering experience.  A small task like changing an image becomes a huge effort when it has to be ...

For my latest project in UxG, we decided it would be prudent to take the TDD approach.  We do all our development here in Visual Studio 2005, however most of us do not have the Team System edition and are left without the MSTest framework it provides.  Those of us without VS2k5: TS who want to try our hand at TDD have ...

As with everything else Web related these days, wouldn't file uploads be better with Ajax?  That's what most of us tend to think, but the devil is in the details!  The short answer is, you cannot do the actual file transfer through an XMLHTTP request. (Why don't file uploads work during async postbacks?)  The long answer is, you can ...

In the Beginning there was Presets It's a huge deal!  In ASP.NET 1.x, there was virtually no good way to style an entire application so we introduced Presets which provided you with a way to copy the style created on one instance of a control, and apply it to another.  This was a glorified copy & paste method for ...

Working with a web based grid doesn't have to be boring.  Our goal since day one has been to make Web based controls just as functional as their Windows Forms counterparts.  This isn't an easy task as I'm sure you know, but luckly our developers are always up for a challenge.  Our latest addition is copy and paste ...

If you've ever wanted to highlight cells based on some condition or compare columns and notify the user of their result.  You're familiar with conditional formatting.  Traditionally, you'd have to handle the InitializeRow event.  Things are changing in 2007.1 that enables you to add conditional formatting without writing any code. ...

My first tip - USE VISUAL STUDIO 2005.  It is amazing how much productivity can be gained by using Visual Studio 2005.  Not only is the design-time support better, but it also allows you to create projects which are a whole lot more maintainable (by leveraging the Web.Config file). Design-Time Support Did you know that in Visual Studio ...