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]

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]