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Yearly Archives: 2007

ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager JavaScript Files

I have been doing a bit of experimentation with ASP.NET AJAX (in this particular case .NET 3.5) and came across a nice feature of the ScriptManager and what it renders for the Microsoft AJAX JavaScript files. I just thought this sheds a bit more light on the operations of the ScriptManager and ASP.NET AJAX, and [...]

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AJAX Control Toolkit – Tab Control – Themes

There seems to be a lot of issues on the ASP.NET Forums with “Theming” the AJAX Control Toolkit’s Tab Control. There are lots of requests for samples (one example), but there are limited resources out there. Looking at the Tabs sample page, you will find information on Theming, but it’s pretty basic. You will find [...]

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ASP.NET AJAX / UpdatePanel “Not Working” – Common Problems

“ASP.NET AJAX / UpdatePanel aren’t working…” – this is probably the number one complaint/question found on the ASP.NET AJAX Forums. I decided it would probably be a good idea to discuss some of the common issues I’ve seen: xhtmlConformance – This is a common gotcha as described in detail on Scott Guthrie’s blog. <xhtmlConformance mode=”Legacy” /> will [...]

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HTML Parsing – HTML Agility Pack

I’ve seen some posts of users asking about parsing HTML in .NET.  Lots of people use RegEx which is OK, but wouldn’t it be nice to use XPath.  Problem with this is that most sites have mangled HTML not even close to XHTML which is needed to utilize XML tools.  It peaked my interest, so [...]

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Theme Error when Themes are disabled?

I received an interesting error today when I tried to create a WebForm which didn’t have any content on it.  Using themed css files requires a header control on the page. (e.g. <head runat=”server” />). Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more [...]

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