ASP.NET

For some applications, time to market is simply critical. If your application is heavily-data driven and backed by a well-designed database schema, you could help yourself a lot be looking at the dynamic duo of ASP.NET Dynamic Data and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Together, these two technologies…

In this episode we dive into some of the real code behind Wide World Importers Conference site.  Girish walks us through the code-behind for the contact/profile and conference registration options pages. There’s not really a lot of magic here.  In fact, I would say it’s quite simple to…

Phil Haack had a session at MIX09 who's name caught my eye: "ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips", which I suppose was part of the intent. I asked Phil to drop by and share with us some of the details about what MVC is, how it can help you develop websites. After watching this…

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss how the development of data-driven web applications has evolved in ASP.NET and how in the .NET Framework 4 it becomes even easier. Whether you're working on a new or existing application, getting your UI to light up model-level metadata/validation becomes as…

Take a look at the final result, shown below, of switching the selected theme to UI Lightness and UI Darkness, which are the unmodified jQuery UI Themes added to ScrewTurn Wiki’s /Themes folder. The layout could use a little tweaking here and there and I haven’t updated all the pages to use…

So I got to thinking. It is hard to create ScrewTurn Wiki Themes. It is dead easy to create jQuery UI Themes. Could jQuery UI Themes be adapted to theme ScrewTurn Wiki? I decided to find out and it turned out to be a lot easier than I ever expected. jQuery UI Themes are designed to style…

Re-Theming ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Wiki ships with two themes – Default and Elegant, as shown above. The themes reside in the Theme folder and consist of a set of Cascading Style Sheets and images. As we saw in Part 3 , the CSS for a theme is quite long and involved. The two…

Integrating jQuery UI into ScrewTurn Wiki You’ve probably already guessed that ScrewTurn Wiki has an ugly confirmation dialog somewhere. The place to find it is in Edit.aspx. Simply log in as the admin (the default username/password is admin/password) and click the “Edit this Page” link. Click…

Improving User Interaction Imagine the following scenario: With the assistance of the CSS Refactoring Helper, we have created an aesthetically pleasing XHTML/CSS-based site. We have spent days—nay, weeks—toiling away to get the site layout and images just right. We’re working on an edit page…

Separating Your Concerns with jQuery In your typical Web page, JavaScript is often found liberally sprinkled throughout the HTML. Little snippets of inline code in event handlers to catch clicks, mouse-overs, key presses and more. For example, ScrewTurn Wiki’s admin tools menu is toggled by …