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7 minutes, 37 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Script - jQuery IntelliSenseASIDE: jQuery IntelliSense
jQuery IntelliSense can be enabled in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with a supported hotfix from Microsoft as detailed by Scott Guthrie’s blog . Watch the following video for tips, tricks, and gotchas when enabling jQuery IntelliSense in your projects.
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2 minutes, 14 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Script - Refactoring ScrewTurn Wiki JavaScriptRefactoring ScrewTurn Wiki’s JavaScript
The first step in refactoring ScrewTurn Wiki’s JavaScript is to extract it into separate JavaScript files. Not only will this allow us to test the JavaScript, but it also will improve page performance. This is due to decreased page size, as the browser can ...
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6 minutes, 53 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Script - Testing JavaScriptLingua Franca of the Programmable Web
JavaScript is the lingua franca of Web programming languages. It doesn’t matter whether you’re programming in .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP or a myriad of other server-side languages, the programming language of the browser is JavaScript. The official standard is...
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5 minutes, 5 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Style - CSS Zen GardenBetween the mangled id and name attributes on tags, base64-encoded viewstate, and server-side control magic, ASP.NET Web Forms has not traditionally encouraged developers to delve into the fundamental technologies of the Web, namely HTML/XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this article, we focused on writing... -
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2 minutes, 28 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Style - Comparing HTML and XHTMLHTML/XHTML - Toe-MAY-toe/Toe-MA-toe
So what about this XHTML thing I keep writing about? What exactly is XHTML and how is it different from HTML? According to the W3C, XHTML 1.0 is "a reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0". Honestly, XHTML 1.0 provides little advantage over HTML 4.01, which...
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2 minutes, 38 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Style - Visual Studio ValidationThere are some easy things that you can do to increase the likelihood that your Web application will work across browsers. Modern browsers are designed to render HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0/1.1, but they do provide backward compatibility with previous HTML specifications. Browsers are typically very...
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2 minutes, 30 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Style - W3C XHTML ValidationEmbracing the Web
ASP.NET Web Forms goes out of its way to protect you from the big, bad old Web. A world of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all served up over HTTP. A world where state is ephemeral and statelessness is a way of life. In the extreme, ASP.NET Web Forms gives you a drag-and-drop experience...
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1 minute, 30 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Testing - Acceptance TestsAcceptance Tests
Acceptance tests using WatiN are simply longer versions of smoke tests. The following shows an acceptance test to verify that we can create a new page in our wiki.
[Test] public void CanCreateNewWikiPage() { string pageName = string.Format("TestPageName-{0}", Guid.NewGuid()); ... -
1 minute, 26 secondsExtreme ASP.NET Makeover: Testing - Eliminating Repetition from TestsEliminating Repetition from Tests
You'll notice a lot of potential for repetition in the CanLogIntoSite test.
· Every WatiN test will have a URL starting with http://localhost:9999.
· Many tests will require the user to be logged in.
· Multiple tests might want to verify the currently logged...
