Eilon Lipton's Blog

From the suggestion box Marc Brooks asks:

As part of my work on the ASP.NET team I've worked directly with several 3rd party control vendors and have spoken to hundreds of customers at conferences such as PDC and TechEd as well as presented on topics related to building controls and using ASP.NET in general. I've looked at the source code for literally hundreds of controls and although the controls are usually pretty darn cool, sometimes I spot some snippets code that just don't look right. That is, they don't look right to me. I'm sure they look right to whoever wrote them.

From the suggestion box InfinitiesLoop asks:

I opened up a suggestion box so you can tell me what you want to hear about.

It's so hard to come up with blog topics that I've decided to outsource the whole idea creation operation. What topics do you want to hear about? As with most people, I prefer talking about my own area of expertise and not just random ramblings. Here are the general topics I'm familiar with:

Over the past few months I've received some feedback that there need to be more ways to customize the rendering of the UpdatePanel control. The response I gave was that we felt that using <div> and <span> would cover by far most scenarios. The one thing I would have loved to add to UpdatePanel is at least a CssClass property, but there are some workarounds to it, so we ended up not adding it.

Updated on 2//22/2007:
New version available here: ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript Class Browser (take 3) 

Updated on 2//22/2007:
New version available here: ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript Class Browser (take 3)