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The ASP.NET weblogs are still using .Text which, frankly, is a bit annoying to work with and just plain 'old'. Pete LePage showed me the MSDN blogs which use the (much newer) Community Server 2....
There's a bug in the IE7 beta which seems to break the style builder. Of course we'll work on getting it fixed but in the meantime, if you happen to have IE7 installed, there's a workaround you ...
It is a fairly well known technique to use Response.Buffer and Response.Flush to make a "please wait" or "Loading..." message appear when you know a page is going to take a while to load. So...
Do you want to help make ASP.NET and Visual Studio even better in the next version? We are looking for the brightest and the most talented candidates to fill some challenging positions in o...
Here's a quick tip that you may or may not know about. In Visual Studio (and possible other MS programs) it's not enough to paste some unicode content into your file and then hit save. You...
This is a bit of a follow on to my last post. At the end, I made an update about how to make use of custom TreeNodes in a databound scenario. I did that example with the CSSTreeNode i...
Most of the ASP.NET 2.0 controls provide ways for the users to customize the look at feel of the output. Some controls such as the Button have relatively little that can be customized while...
I spend a lot of time on the ASP.NET forums. Hopefully my efforts over there help steer users into the right direction of how to use my features and ASP.NET properly and most effectively. ...
One very common request I get is how to render the Menu with <UL>'s and <LI>'s instead of the heavy table rendering. Even though the Menu allows for templating, most users quickly fi...
I noticed this issue quite a bit on the forums. A lot of users are finding that after moving their ASP.NET 1.1 site to ASP.NET 2.0 and then adding a Menu Control to their app, the Menu does...
The SiteMapPath control is designed to work directly against a SiteMapProvider. However, there is sometimes that rareoccasion where a developer might want to take advantage of the formatting of ...
Here is a neat "trick" you can do with the Data controls. If you have an array of data you want to format, you can just directly assign it to the Datasource property kind of like this: <%@ ...
One question I see very frequently is how to customize the styles on an individual menu item. Declaratively, this isn't possible, although it is on the list of features for a future release. However, ...
Well, as much as I would hate to admit it, there are a few bugs in the Menu control. For the most part, I'm OK with that. Some of the bugs are a matter of interpretation and those kind wil...
I got an email with this question and a request that I post the solution on my blog so here it is: Consider a sitemap with the following structure: The nodes "c", "e", and "h" (high...
This question came up on the ASP.NET forums and I thought it was worth mentioning here. There are some instances when it would be useful to add an extra bit of detail to the end of a SiteMapPath...
Here's a question I get quite often. The problem: Menu and TreeView won't autoselect the current node as you're navigating around the site. It usually happens two ways. First: someon...
Two properties on the TreeView TreeNodes are especially tricky. They are the Expanded and the ShowCheckBox properties. And they've changed between Beta2 and the RTM. The reaso...
This post will be pretty short and simple but when I starting thinking about putting up this blog, this was the first topic I came up with. The reason is simply that it took me a lot longer to ...
Out of the box, ImageMap will support 3 types of HotSpots: Circle, Rectangle, and Polygon. The reason for just these three shapes is that the image map standard only allow for&nbs...
This used to confused me too before I finally understood what was happening. First, let me explain what I'm talking about. Lets say our SiteMap looks like this: And in home.aspx we have th...
We've had various feature requests come in for the site navigation feature to include additional built in properties. This got turned down because it wasn't really useful data abo...
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