Archive for March, 2007

The world has standards for a reason

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

How many Microsoft developers does it take fix a light bulb? None, they just declare darkness to be the new standard. <rant=enabled >

I mentioned in a previous post that I was having some fun with the new AJAX.NET toolkit extensions, but that was with a stand-alone ASP.NET project. While coming back into […]

CSS Masks for your TextBoxes

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Although I have been somewhat under-impressed by the ASP.NET AJAX library, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and especially with the masked edit boxes.

The idea behind the masked edit boxes is to provide a visual queue to the user as to how their input should look. This visual queue […]

Sharepoint List Handlers Under Load

Monday, March 5th, 2007

For Domino developers, the idea of creating an event handler that logs every change to a view (either via the UI or through the backend) is a pipe dream. So when I saw how easy these handlers were to create and deploy in Sharepoint, I thought somebody must have been listening. Alas, I […]