Archive for the 'Javascript' Category

ASP.NET Web Services from Javascript with jQuery (without the ScriptManager)

Friday, November 28th, 2008

How to get AJAX functionality out of your ASP.NET web pages, without the javascript bloat of the ScriptManager / Ajax.NET.

Calling web services from javascript with ASP.NET was made easy with the ScriptManager object, but that has the nasty habit of adding over 100k of javascript just by its mere inclusion. Such a price to pay […]

A cure for the common user who does not read warning prompts

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The warning prompt; the last ditch effort to make a user aware of an action they are about to take. Yet over the years we, as developers, have thrown up so many warnings, cautions, and advisories, that users really do not take notice. So how do you secure an application button from inadvertent clicking? […]

Drag and Drop Data Entry

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

A recent need at work was to find a way for assist users in data entry tasks so as to help eliminate common data entry mistakes (transposition, wrong data, etc..). Although copying and pasting was the first thought, we eventually decided to use drag and drop technology.

The scenario is something like this; we get […]