Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in March 2006

A few thought regarding ATLAS Xml Client Script
March 31, 2006 @ 2:31 pm

ATLAS's XmlClientScript is by far the most difficult part of the ATLAS framework to work with at this time. It promises some nice functionality but dealing with the script language itself is pretty painful. Until there's better tool support it's going to be a tough sell to get developers to use XmlScript.

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SQL Server Express in APP_DATA and running with IIS
March 31, 2006 @ 10:09 am

The APP_DATA directory and SQLExpress databases in it are a great way to ship demos - if you are using the built in Web Server. However, if you use IIS I've run into some security issues that won't let me run the database as a file database.

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Turn a JavaScript Date into a .NET DateTime value
March 29, 2006 @ 11:14 pm

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ATLAS UpdatePanel problem with Postback Scripts and invisible controls
March 29, 2006 @ 3:14 am

Looks like there's a bug with the UpdatePanel if you have a control in an UpdatePanel and it's hidden when the original page is rendered. If there's no

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JavaScript window.SetTimeout to a JavaScript Class method or function with parameters?
March 28, 2006 @ 3:31 pm

Ah the joys of JavaScript and object orientation. Here's a little problem I can't seem to figure out on how to make call a class method from within a class (ie. no reference to a class instance) to another class method and pass parameters. Sounds simple, but I can't seem to find a way to do this and maintain encapsulation.

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Sweatshop
March 26, 2006 @ 10:20 pm

My dirty little secret is out. I have a little help...

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Visual Inheritance with Master Pages and the @Reference tag
March 26, 2006 @ 9:02 pm

Visual Page Inheritance in stock ASP.NET 2.0 projects is a bit of work until you figure out the right syntax. Here's a scenerio I ran into for templating master pages and an example of how to reference another Master page class from another Master page.

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A quick way to host the ASP.NET runtime with ASP.NET 2.0
March 24, 2006 @ 9:02 pm

I've been mucking around with Runtime hosting again in reviewing some of my notes for my AspNet Connections session. In .NET 2.0 the runtime hosting environment has a few new classes that provide a little more flexibility over getting the ASP.NET Runtime kicked off in a process.

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Fun with AJAX Callback Validations and ToolTip Messages
March 23, 2006 @ 4:10 pm

My use of AJAX technology in existing applications has been primarily minor - 'icing on the cake' as a friend of mine recently commented. Here's one use of Callbacks for doing server side field validation from the client and displaying alerts with a JavaScript Tooltip function.

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VS 2005 not compiling ASPX Code Beside files weirdness
March 22, 2006 @ 7:49 pm

Have an odd problem where VS.NET 2005 is not properly compiling ASPX and Codebeside files where the compiler shows success but I get runtime compilation errors.

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Couple IIS7 gotchas running ASP.NET Apps
March 21, 2006 @ 2:15 pm

Ran into a few gotchas getting started once again with IIS 7 on Vista Build 5308. Here is a rundown and workaround a couple of thoughts on the management interface.

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Themes and Templating Master Pages
March 19, 2006 @ 9:50 pm

Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 are lacking in that they don't really support code type controls like pages or even more importantly Master Pages. Here is a simple outline that you can use to incorporated templates Master Pages alongside your Themes in a consistent way.

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ASP.NET ListBoxes, SelectedValue and ViewState
March 18, 2006 @ 12:44 am

I'm struggling once again with an OnSelectedIndexChanged form that just doesn't want to behave when ViewState is off.

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Your Tax dollars and your Future at work
March 17, 2006 @ 10:04 am

Congress passed a 2.8 trillion budget this year. That's 2,800 Billion dollars. Boggles the mind doesn't it?

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Browser Standards, WC3 and Web Development Stagnation
March 16, 2006 @ 4:22 pm

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Sharkshield – Ah: this takes all the fun out of it!
March 16, 2006 @ 3:42 pm

Technology wants to keep sharks away. I say keep 'em coming and let natural selection do its thing.

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Playing around with ASP.NET Themes
March 13, 2006 @ 11:49 pm

Finally got around to adding themes to a small application. Themes are a great concept and easy to use in ASP.NET 2.0 but they fall a bit short of what would be a commonplace definition of theming for an application.

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Some ATLAS resources
March 12, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

Since I've been working with ATLAS this last week I thought I'd post a few useful links to various places where more information can be found that's been useful for me.

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Images and partial Page Refreshes
March 12, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

Earlier I ran into an issue with the browser cache settings where images where not properly caching, resulting in a very ugly behavior for AJAX callbacks resulting in images flashing and dimishing the whole 'no POSTBACK flash' concept.

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Nikhil's Web Development Helper
March 09, 2006 @ 11:30 pm

Nikhil's Web Development Toolbar looks like a great tool to have, unfortunately I've never gotten it to work. Looks like I'm not the only one. Maybe somebody from MS has any insight?

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Creating a unique or semi-unique ID in .NET
March 09, 2006 @ 2:33 am

So I'm thinking about how to generate a unique ID that isn't a GUID to keep the size of the string value down a bit for a number of situations where the size of a GUID string is a big problem. There seems to be no built in way to generate a unique id easily.

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Google Click Fraud...
March 08, 2006 @ 8:58 pm

Some days when looking at my AdSense payouts I certainly am wondering where the traffic is coming from. The story about Click Fraud today didn't exactly help my confidence level.

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Some more random AJAX thoughts
March 07, 2006 @ 8:48 pm

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More ATLAS UpdatePanel weirdness
March 07, 2006 @ 7:00 pm

Still mucking around with the UpdatePanel which should be simple. But as it turns out the UpdatePanel mucks with the page postback cycle on callbacks that results in subtly different behavior than a true POSTBack that complicates matter significantly. On first blush it looks that in many cases the use of ViewState for many controls is a requirement to get page state back on a callback.

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Windows Vista on slowish machine - not much fun at all
March 04, 2006 @ 11:53 am

It took a while to get Vista actually installed on a second machine but now that I have it running here are a few first subjective impressions .

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ASP.NET Themes and required Head objects
March 03, 2006 @ 2:10 am

Ran into a little annoyance today - when you remove all markup from an ASP.NET ASPX page, and you have theming enabled ASP.NET complains about the head/runat="Server" missing.

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ATLAS UpdatePanel Experiments
March 02, 2006 @ 1:19 am

I've been playing with the ATLAS UpdatePanel today and am running into a few issues.

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