Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in November 2011

jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys
November 30, 2011 @ 2:23 am

How do you display editable time values in Web applications? While date display has a pretty clear UI choice with date pickers, visual time picking isn't very efficient. In this post I show a keyboard based alternative to navigating and entering time (and date values) values using hotkeys hooked up through a jQuery plugin.

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Creating a Dynamic DataRow for easier DataRow Syntax
November 24, 2011 @ 3:13 am

The Dynamic Language Runtime features in .NET 4.0 make it very easy to create custom dynamic types that use alternate 'data sources' to expose a new member interface. In this post I describe a simple example that exposes a classic DataRow as a dynamic type to allow cleaner syntax and no need for type casting when accessing DataRow objects.

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Dynamically creating a Generic Type at Runtime
November 11, 2011 @ 4:39 am

How do you get a type reference to a generic type instance for a specific set of generic type parameters at runtime? Generics is primarily a coding time tool that creates code at compile time. It's not real easy to create generic types at runtime using dynamic type information. In this post I talk about an issue I ran into while trying to create dictionary types on the fly.

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Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services
November 03, 2011 @ 4:55 am

In this post I describe how to use the West Wind Web Toolkit to create an AJAX/REST service that can serve data to a JavaScript applications with a few short steps. Then we'll look at ways to access the server side code with simple jQuery/JavaScript code and the ajaxCallMethod() helper.

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