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New SQLite provider for ELMAH

I bet you know what ELMAH is, don't you? ELMAH stands for Error Logging Modules and Handlers, and its main and only purpose is to log exceptions occurring in ASP.NET web applications, within which it integrates with just a couple of entries in the...

Posted 06 September 2007 03:05 AM by simoneb | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, Tools

Cascading autocomplete made easy

Over the last few days the API of the ScriptAculoUs.Net AutocompleteTextBox control has changed pretty much, since I've switched from a custom implementation based on reflection to the ASP.NET built-in callback mechanism. I chose to do the switch...

Posted 28 August 2006 05:20 AM by simoneb | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

ImageReflection with the Atlas Control Toolkit

A few days ago I blogged about an ASP.NET control I wrote to apply a neat effect to the images of a web form. In the meanwhile I found another implementation of the same effect which is much lighter in the means of both kBytes and cpu work and does exactly...

Posted 16 August 2006 09:01 PM by simoneb | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

LiteBox meets Flickr: LiteBoxFlickrAlbum

Yesterday I got a link on my news aggregator pointing to a new article by Sam Judson on Coding4Fun , which talks about a .NET version of the API for the Flickr services . A nice idea immediately came to my mind, why not extending the LiteBoxAlbum control...

Posted 10 August 2006 04:17 AM by simoneb | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools

ScriptAculoUs.Net on Sourceforge Project Hosting

All my projects are grouped under one main repository located on Sourceforge , together with my main project, BusyBoxDotNet . The source code can be accessed via Subversion. Here are the links: Project homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/busybox...

Posted 05 August 2006 09:55 PM by simoneb | 29 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, BusyBoxDotNet, AJAX, Tools, Web Design

LiteBoxAlbum: Autogenerate LightBox-like photo albums

UPDATE 10/08/06: A couple new features, read the bottom of the post for details. Yesterday I posted about how I created a couple ASP.NET web controls to make it easy to generate a photo gallery using the LiteBox library. Ok now I have to make a confession...

Posted 04 August 2006 06:28 PM by simoneb | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

LightBox with ASP.NET

If you don't know what LightBoxes are check out the list at blinklist . Among them two implementantions caught my attention, the original LightBox JS 2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar and the lighter LiteBox by Tyler Mulligan. The final result is exactly the same...

Posted 04 August 2006 09:06 AM by simoneb | 61 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

SweetTitles - fading tooltips (and my extender)

Dustin Diaz , among other cool things, has written a nice Javascript library called SweetTitles to convert hyperlink's Title attribute (Tooltip property in ASP.NET HyperLink web controls) - those yellow popups appearing when you hover the mouse over them...

Posted 31 July 2006 06:12 AM by simoneb | 20 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

Reflection for images... not *that* Reflection!

First just relax, I'm not talking about *that* Reflection , instead about reflecting images. Yes I said that. Thomas Fuchs, the inventor of script.aculo.us , whom you may have guessed I like pretty much, has an exciting post on his blog where he shows...

Posted 30 July 2006 06:38 AM by simoneb | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

Registering scripts into the page header with ASP.NET 2.0

UPDATE 19/08/2006 : changed the API, no more public constructor but static property to access the instance of the HeadScriptManager . UPDATE 03/08/2006: now the library allows to register stylesheets too. See class diagram below for details. ASP.NET 2...

Posted 29 July 2006 12:09 AM by simoneb | 12 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools

Debugging tools and tips for ASP.NET applications

When I develop ASP.NET applications or test my controls I make use of some tools which I thought would be useful listing, along with some tips. PocketSOAP TcpTrace and ProxyTrace are very simple tools which let you see the traffic flowing between you...

Posted 24 July 2006 09:13 PM by simoneb | 11 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

Atlas ThumbnailHyperlink: Hyperlink with page preview

I've been playing around with Atlas lately and decided to try to integrate an Atlas control extender into a ready-to-use web control. What I like most are the callback capabilities, but since many implementations already exist (kudos to this one ...

Posted 24 July 2006 07:09 AM by simoneb | 9 comment(s)

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ATLAS UpdateProgressSignup: get a notification of UpdatePanel's events

UPDATE 03/09/2006: This post has a follow up, please read this for the updates. One of the most asked questions on the ATLAS forums - one I asked myself just yesterday - is about how to get a notification when the UpdatePanels in the page perform their...

Posted 04 July 2006 09:16 PM by simoneb | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

A ScriptAculoUs autocomplete web control

To the reader - this post has evolved much and contains many comments. You don't need to read through them all to find things which have been forgotten or to find bug fixes and new features, because each of them, if valuable, has already been included...

Posted 03 July 2006 11:13 PM by simoneb | 63 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

Misc resources for ASP.NET

ASP.NET Property Grid , a cool ASP.NET web control. NUnitASP , unit testing for ASP.NET. RSSBus , interconnection to its limits! YUI , the new version of YAHOO! User Interface Library is out, with so many new features is absolutely to see. http://www...

Posted 03 July 2006 09:05 PM by simoneb | with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

The leading UI suite for ASP.NET - Telerik radControls Outstanding performance. Full ASP.NET AJAX support. Nearly codeless development.