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  • Working with ModalPopup Ajax Control

    In this article the author shows how to display a simple popup window to the user with the ModalPopup Extender available in the ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit. After giving a few example cases of when to use the ModalPopup, the author walks through how to use this AJAX Extender control using source code snippets and a source download.

  • An information box control to display messages using Ajax

    Our objective is to provide an Ajax equivalent to WinForms’ MessageBox and Javascript alert, which is adapted to both the HTTP submit pattern and the display of messages of Ajax callbacks. The function is fulfilled by an information box ASP.NET server control which displays messages within the page. Our environment is ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows and IIS and our information box uses ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0 which you can download and install from http://www.asp.net/ajax/.

  • An Ajax image list control to manage list of items displayed with icons

    Our objective is to provide a mean to manage small lists of items in the browser, including adding and removing items, where the final list can be posted to an ASP.NET server. This function is fulfilled by an ImageList control which is inspired from the WinForms’ ListView control. Our environment is ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows and IIS and our image list uses ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0 which you can download and install from http://www.asp.net/ajax/.

  • Database local cache

    You are developing a desktop application for managing a fitness center. The members information is of course to be stored in a database, so you define a "Members" table with fields such as name, birth date, telephone, and the like. But your happiness ends when you are faced with the requirement of recording the member's photo together with the rest of the data. Then the second most trascendental question in human history (right after the meaning of life) comes to your mind: Should I store the photo in the database for the sake of data consistency, or in the local filesystem for the sake of performance?

  • A New Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET

    Task Scheduler is the Windows service that schedules and automatically starts programs. Windows Explorer presents a user interface to the service when you browse the %WINDIR%\TASKS folder, typically from the shortcut in the control panel. From the command line, the schtasks command and the old at command do the same. Programmers have a well-documented COM interface, but the .NET framework does not offer any wrapper for it. The present library provides that .NET wrapper.

  • Generic DataGridView V2.0

    GenericDataGridView is a new control which is more flexible for coding than a simple datagrid. However, there are a lot of developers who are facing diffulties about DataGridView Calendar, Mask, ComboBox and also Validations. Actually, GenericDataGridView does not support such as important properties.