Most Popular .NET, jQuery and Web Development articles in 2011
JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, HTML 5, Other .NET articles Link List – August 2011
JavaScript, CSS3, Silverlight, ASP.NET, SharePoint articles Link List – July 2011
jQuery, JavaScript and CSS Articles
ASP.NET, MVC and Silverlight articles
.NET and SharePoint Articles
Other Articles
jQuery, JavaScript, Silverlight, LINQ and .NET articles Link List – June 2011
jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, SharePoint and .NET articles Link List – May 2011
jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET, MVC and .NET articles Link List – April 2011
ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, WPF, Silverlight and .NET articles Link List – March 2011
jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ and .NET articles Link List – February 2011
Here’s a quick wrap up of the jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ and other .NET articles published on http://www.devcurry.com/ in the month of February 2011.
ASP.NET Articles
Cancel Update and Delete in ASP.NET GridView - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to cancel the Update and Delete operation in an ASP.NET GridView.
Call JavaScript function from ASP.NET Content Page - One of the frequently asked questions by developers on the forums is How to call a JavaScript function from an ASP.NET Content Page, especially when the JavaScript is kept in a separate .js file. Let us see one of the ways
Register Script into Page Header from ASP.NET Content Page - A reader Simone mailed me asking if it was possible to register the script into <head> portion of the page.
Remove ViewState from an ASP.NET Page - In this post, we will explore how to remove ViewState from your asp.net page and instead store it in a session. This could be useful when pages are to be served to devices with less resources
Avoid DataBinder.Eval in ASP.NET and improve Performance - I see a lot of developers using DataBinder.Eval, which evaluates data-binding expressions at run time. Although the DataBinder.Eval is quite frequently used in web controls like the GridView, Repeater etc, use it with caution.
jQuery and JavaScript Articles
Create a Custom jQuery Selector - jQuery has a rich and powerful collection of selectors. jQuery being extensible, also allows you to add your own set of custom selectors with ease. Here’s an example of how to create your own custom selector that identifies all mailto: links on a page
How jQuery Resources Hotlinking will Affect your Applications - The jQuery team had made an announcement that hotlinking will be disabled from January 31, 2011. Let us see how this decision will this impact our applications if you are still hotlinking (hotlinking is bad)
jQuery: IP address using JSONP - In this post, we will see how to find the IP address of the client machine using a service which is JSONP compatible
jQuery: Find Text and Highlight Elements - Let us see how to use jQuery to find/search a piece of text and highlight elements if that text is present in them.
.text() and .html() in jQuery - I see developers getting confused on when to use the jQuery .text() vs .html() functions. So I thought of writing a simple demo to clear the confusion
jQuery 1.5 Released: What’s New - The jQuery team has released jQuery version 1.5, right on schedule! This release includes several performance improvements, bug fixes, major re-write of the Ajax module with extensibility improvements, a Deferred callback management system and much more.
Filter an Array using JavaScript - Let’s see how to filter element values in an Array using JavaScript. We will use the JavaScript Array.Filter() to do so. Here’s the code to filter out all Even numbers from an array
Silverlight Articles
Silverlight: Add a CheckBox to a TreeView and Handle Events - Let us see how to add controls like the CheckBox to a TreeView.
Silverlight TreeView DataBinding Example with HierarchicalDataTemplate - In this post we will see how to programmatically databind a Silverlight TreeView control using the HierarchicalDataTemplate
Silverlight 4: List Audio and Video Devices - In this post, we will see how to use Silverlight to list the available audio and video devices on your system. We will list this information into separate ComboBoxes.
Change Silverlight DataGrid Style based on Mouse Actions - Although WPF supports Property Triggers for applying different styles on controls like DataGrid based upon User Action (e.g. MouseEnter etc.), Silverlight does not have inbuilt support for the same. To make this possible in Silverlight, we need to take advantage of Styles and Events
Silverlight 4: Master Details with two DataGrid - In cases where you are fetching data from Master/Detail (Parent-child) relationship tables, users demand a functionality where the Silverlight page contains two DataGrids for holding Parent and Child table data respectively
Display Parent Child collection in WPF DataGrid using Combobox - Lets consider a scenario where we receive the DepartmentCollection object which contain List of Employees object for that Department, in every row of the Department collection. Now we need to display this data in DataGrid. Let’s how to handle this scenario in WPF
LINQ and other .NET Articles
Important .NET Framework 4.0 Command Line Tools You Must Know - Here’s a list of important command line tools in the .NET Framework 4.0 which can be run using the Visual Studio Command Prompt.
LINQ: Query Comma Separated Value (CSV) files - In this post, we will read a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file using LINQ and perform some calculations on the data.
Get IP Address from Domain Name and Vice versa using .NET - Let us see how to get an IP address of a domain. We will also see how to get a DNS name if we supply the IP address.
Query a Sequence using LINQ - In this post, let us see how to query a sequence and extract elements based on a condition
Divide Sequence into Groups and Query using LINQ – In the post above, I had blogged about Querying a Sequence using LINQ. Now let us say if this sequence was to be divided into smaller sequences/batches and then queried upon, here’s how we would do it using LINQ
Visual Studio: Remove Unused References and Assemblies from your Project - When you create a default project in Visual Studio, there are a couple of references and assemblies that get added by default. You may not need them all.
Loop Multiple Arrays in C# – Short way - Let us see a trick to loop multiple arrays in C#.
Other Articles
Windows Azure Free Training Videos - If you have been looking out to get some free training on windows azure, then this post is for you. The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform.
PHP with IIS7 and SQL Server 2008 – Free Training Kit - Microsoft has released a free training kit that shows how to build PHP applications using Windows, IIS 7.5 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ and .NET articles Link List – January 2011
Here’s a quick wrap up of the jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ, Visual Studio and other .NET articles published on www.DevCurry.com in the month of January 2011.
ASP.NET and Silverlight Articles
Compress Session State in ASP.NET 4 - ASP.NET 4 introduces a new option called ‘compressionEnabled’ to compress session state and improve application performance.
Bind CheckBox in ASP.NET GridView – Multiple ways - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to bind the Checkbox in an ASP.NET GridView.
Remove X-AspNet-Version and X-Powered-By HTTP Header using IIS - When an HTTP request is made to a web server (like IIS), HTTP headers are transferred from the Browser to the webserver and vice-versa. This post shows how to remove the X-Powered-By and X-AspNet-Version
Selected Value of ASP.NET RadioButtonList using jQuery - In this post, we will see how to display the text and value of the selected ASP.NET Radio Button.
ASP.NET GridView Row Count with ObjectDataSource - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to get the total row count when the ASP.NET GridView is bound with an ObjectDataSource.
Using jQuery Ajax to call ASP.NET JSON web service - The jQuery Ajax infrastructure allows you to perform asynchronous HTTP requests which makes it easy to call an ASP.NET JSON web service, using this api. Let us see how.
Highlight Current Page in ASP.NET GridView Pager - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to highlight the current page in an ASP.NET GridView Pager.
Align ASP.NET GridView Column Text - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to align the text of a column to the right.
Display Page count in ASP.NET GridView - Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to display the page count in an ASP.NET GridView control
Populate ASP.NET ListBox with Sequential Numbers using LINQ - Usually when one thinks of populating a control like a ListBox with sequential numbers, the first thing that comes to a developers mind is to use a for loop. However with the LINQ Range Operator, generating a sequence of number is quite simple.
Silverlight Articles
Silverlight 4 Chart Example - The Silverlight Toolkit contains controls like the Chart control to make data visualization easy. Let us see an example of using Silverlight 4 Charts in your applications.
Display HTML in Silverlight using WebBrowser - Silverlight 4 introduces the WebBrowser control using which you can now display HTML based content in Silverlight.
Increase Isolated Storage Quota in Silverlight - The default quota for isolated storage is 1MB. The good part is that you can increase these limits if the user approves it. This is done by calling the IncreaseQuotaTo method of the IsolatedStorageFile class. Let us see how
jQuery and JavaScript Articles
JavaScript Array Push and Pop - JavaScript Arrays can be manipulated through various methods like Push and Pop provided by the Array class. In this post, let us see an example of how to use the Push and Pop methods to manipulate arrays
Get and Set Form Element Values using jQuery - One of the most frequently asked questions about jQuery is to Get or Set values of HTML Form elements. The jQuery val() method lets you get and set values of form elements.
jQuery UI 1.8.9 Released - If you are using the jQuery UI library in your applications, then an important update is that the jQuery UI team has shipped a maintenance release - jQuery UI 1.8.9
Add Days to Date in JavaScript - A common requirement while working with dates in JavaScript is to add days to a date. Let us see how to do this in JavaScript
LINQ and other .NET Articles
Random Hexadecimal Numbers using .NET - In this example, we will see how to generate random hexadecimal numbers using .NET. We will be using the Random class to do so.
LINQ to XML Sorting - In this post, we will read data from the XML file using LINQ to XML, sort it by an element and then load it into a Dictionary.
Using from-let-where Clause in LINQ - In this example, we will see how to use the from-let-where clause in LINQ. For this purpose, let us take a sample array and then print only those numbers in this array, whose square is greater than 10.
Inner Join Example in LINQ and C# - Let see an example of using the Join method in LINQ and C#. The Join method performs an inner equijoin on two sequences, correlating the elements of these sequences based on matching keys.
LINQ – Left Join Example in C# - In this post, we will see an example of how to do a Left Outer Join in LINQ and C#.
Visual Studio Articles
Refactoring code using Extract Method in Visual Studio 2010 - Extract Method is a refactoring operation in Visual Studio 2010 that provides an easy way to create a new method from a code fragment, in an existing member.
Disable Squiggly or Wavy lines in Visual Studio – With the ‘Live Semantic Error feature’ in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and onwards, red squiggly or wavy lines appear beneath your code that is incorrect or could cause a problem. If you want to temporarily turn it off, here’s how to do so.
Compact CSS formatting in Visual Studio - Visual Studio provides default formatting settings for the CSS Editor. You can provide style as well as capitalization formatting to your CSS code. Here’s how to do it
Other Articles
Getting Started with Sharepoint 2010 – Free Book - Microsoft has released a free eBook for those who are just getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010 and want a quick introduction plus installation steps.
ASP.NET MVC 3 Released - Microsoft announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can either download ASP.NET MVC 3 OR Install it directly using Web Platform Installer
Upgrade Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 - If you are planning to upgrade from Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2010, Microsoft has released a free guide that could prove very useful.
.NET Web Camps Training Kit - The .NET Web Camps Training Kit is out for you to download. This free training kit covers the latest .NET technologies