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Fixing a long-standing issue with TinyMCE

I do a lot of development work with the TinyMCE text editor, since it's the one that powers all the rich text editing capabilities at Lottery Post. TinyMCE is pretty much one of the most popular Java...

New jQuery Watermark plugin released

I have just finished publishing my latest free plugin, called Watermark plugin for jQuery. The new project has been released on the Google Code site, and the link to the project home page is: http://...

ASP.NET AJAX: Replacement CSS add/remove functions

I came across a major performance issue in the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library (JavaScript library) today. Because the nature of the issue is engrained in the client library code, the only way ...

Supporting Google Chrome with Browserhawk

Lottery Post uses Browserhawk (from Cyscape) to detect browser capabilities, so if a user's web browser does not meet the minimum standards required by the site, they can be shown a detailed message p...

ASP.NET AJAX Client Library: Combining createDelegate and createCallback

When working with the ASP.NET AJAX client library, I find that I occasionally need to use both Function.createDelegate() and Function.createCallback() simultaneously. Each time you use one or the oth...

Smart String Concatenation

Whether on a individual computer or a server attached to the Internet someplace, people are always looking for better performance of their software. The first thought that comes to mind is often addi...

Three cheers for Microsoft! The web is about to improve big-time

I am so happy to report that Microsoft made an announcement this morning that its upcoming IE8 web browser will support all current web browser standards as the default browser behavior!While I knew t...

Applying Vista SP1 caused VS 2008 compiles to fail (includes fix)

Being a Microsoft Developer Network subscriber, yesterday I was able to get my hands on the new Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which includes hoards of fixes and performance tweaks.The install went well,...

ChangeAll extension method alters every item in an iCollection(Of T)

My favorite feature of the new .NET 3.5 framework is extension methods. Ever since I heard they would be available in this version of the .NET framework I have been designing functions in a way that ...

Simulating VB.NET's lost String() function

Before VB.NET was around -- back in the days it was just called "Visual Basic" -- there was a function named String(), which was used to repeat a character sequence multiple times.For exampl...

ASP.NET: Resolve Virtual Paths with a Simple Anchor Tag

Web developers have traditionally struggled with the issue of maintaining relative links throughout a web site that would always point to the correct folder/directory, no matter where the link was ref...

Simple function to split camelCase words

The phrase "camel case" is used to describe a common method of naming variables, properties, and methods in a programming language.It is useful for stringing several words together, while ma...

Updating Large Value Data Types in SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2005 added some new large value data types that are extremely useful for storing large chunks of text.Such is the case with any large forum web site, such as Lottery Post. Each forum post ...

ASP.NET Tip: How to prevent the title tag from rendering

In ASP.NET, those who want complete control over the contents of the <head> section of a page get frustrated by the fact that ASP.NET automatically inserts a <title> tag.You can even set M...

Discovered source of nasty Opera bug

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "Opera"? Is it a long, boring series of songs that you can't understand the words to?If that's the case, then you really nee...

My new blog for technical articles

From Todd -- A.K.A. SpeednetI want to post a brief intro to my new Blog, which I will be using to post technical articles about Microsoft development (such as ASP.NET, .NET in general, VB, C#, SQL Ser...

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