One of the simple tasks I needed to work on last week was to implement simple screen printing on certain screens in a Silverlight application. Once I got home, I wrote a very generic routine that could print any control at all. I wrote it as an extension method on System.Windows.Controls.Control class. I used a …
Here is a business use case I am trying to address. After a web page is loaded, I need to make a server call every so often and make certain parts of the web page visible or hidden based on server call results. In my case I am checking the state of the object in …
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One of the common tasks I encounter periodically is submitting a simple array of strings or numbers from JavaScript to a controller method for processing. It seems like I struggle often trying to make it work. So, this time I decided to develop a simple and easy to use solution. I decided to utilize custom …
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I had a task today to create a quick and dirty way to print tabular data using ASP.NET MVC. Business goal was to enable printing of search results, where only portion of the results was displayed to user, one page at a time. So, I knew I had to make a server call, then show …
Atlanta code camp 2013 preparation is officially underway! Atlanta Code Camp is taking place on August 24th, 2013 The Atlanta Code Camp is your opportunity to join your other Atlanta developer and design community members in a free day of training. It will be held at Southern Polytechnic State University. You can get directions here. …
Here is what I would like to achieve. I would like to create a form, login form for example, where I have some required fields and submit button. I would like to have submit button disabled until the input is valid. I also would like to display invalid input error messages, but not initially. I …
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I have been pondering today on user interface platforms in the modern world. But first, let’s take a look at history of UI. If you are a Microsoft developer, you had been accustomed to Microsoft dominance in the world of UI platforms since maybe mid nineties. Visual Basic 6 was truly the platform for business …
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I have started studying Angular framework a few weeks ago. I always try to keep up with frameworks out there in the world to see if any of them can save me time and fill in specific needs for my projects. I was attracted by apparent simplicity of Angular, judging by few demos I viewed. …
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As I was working on my new web project, I decided to use Twitter Bootstrap as the foundation for my styling and components. One common feature that all web usually have is showing some kind of “Please Wait” dialog to let the user know that application is processing something in the background. Typically in web …
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As I was working on a build server, I ran into an issue importing pfx (assembly signing) files. I kept getting an error – “Failed to install key pair–Object already exists” trying to run the following command: sn –I myfile.pfx VS_KEY_XXXXXX Of course, I have to import my files on build machine in order to …
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