Reamped.NET

If you have read any of my previous posts on site wide user notification patterns and controls, then you may know where this is going. I have compiled a server control to bring this functionality to the fingertips of my fellow ASP.NET developers! Simply drag and drop the control onto your page or your master page and you are in business. I figured out how tired I was of trying to get notifications to users in a simple way and got tired of rewriting one on every project. Lets take a look at how it works. &#... [More]

A little while back I came across a great post on how to use JQuery to do more efficient client side paging by Dave Ward. The sample shows you how to use JQuery to do Ajax callbacks for client side paging using a grid template. After downloading the demo and parsing through it all, I found a lot of things I really liked and even came across a little gotchya with the way ASP.NET serializes dates in JSON.   One part I really enjoyed about this sample is that your objects on the server are tra... [More]

A short time ago I was confronted with a serious problem. What I needed to do was dynamically choose a UserControl as well as fire methods from that UserControl. The problem lies in the fact that a UserControl does not implement my custom methods that I needed for my controls. Each control was similar and would have the same methods but it would have different display characteristics.   That was when I had a small epiphany. Why can't I just make an abstract base class? Well the answer is you can! Som... [More]

Lately, I have been having to deal with finding ASP.NET Ajax when creating server controls. It is actually quite simple to do, and I think that if you are going to be coding server controls for ASP.NET you should definitely know how to do it. So in this post, we will go through embedding a javascript file into your assembly and then registering it to the page. Then I will show you how to find out if ASP.NET Ajax is loaded during the script registration and also how to find out if ASP.NET Ajax is loaded in... [More]

Some of you may have read my previous post Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern. Upon a revision round of thinking, I thought it may be better to actually have a server control. This would offer some significant advantages, the biggest one being that we could drop the BaseMasterPage. Having the control be a strongly typed server control, we could find it on the page by it's type. We would also only have one place to go to maintain the code, rather than digging through a user controls ... [More]

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages. I also wanted a quick access method to the notification system from any point in the code-behind of the website that was short and simple to call. The messaging pattern should also ajax aware, and notifications should work in both a ... [More]