My “lightbox” of choice for web development is the jQuery plugin Fancybox. It is simple, lightweight and completely customizable. Future tutorials will go more in depth with using and customizing Fancybox. One of the issues is fancybox on asp.net web forms does not work when showing ASP.net server controls inline. This tutorial will walk through the steps to get Fancybox working properly. Here’s the scenario. Say you have an ASP.net form on a page with a GridView showing a…
"Fancybox on ASP.net Web Forms"Author: Mark
Something that has always bothered me about using “light boxes” or even popup windows and data is added or updated in that light box the parent window that is displaying the data doesn’t refresh the data without refreshing the page. Using AJAX to improve the user experience makes matters worse because the data should automatically asp.net refresh when changed. This tutorial will show how to update a GridView on a parent page when a light box…
"ASP.Net Refresh Data on Parent Page from Lightbox without Postback"
With a little CSS, a tiny amount of jQuery and a little ingenuity you can easily create a reusable rating control in asp.net using jquery. The Basics For the CSS I decided there was no reason to re-invent the wheel, so I used Komodo Media’s CSS Star Rating Part Duex for the styles, although I did rename them (only because I prefer short, simple class names). Here’s the basic HTML structure of the rating system: <ul…
"Star User Rating Control in Asp.Net Using Jquery"
Amazon Web Services offers a free tier that gives you an EC2 micro instance for free the first year of service, among other things. There are no hidden fees or anything like that and the offer is excellent to get a feel for cloud computing. The problem is that using this free tier for your Mumble or Teamspeak server is most of the time a bad idea. I’ve seen this mentioned several times. Use the…
"Amazon EC2 Free Tier for Mumble is (probably) a bad idea"
About a week or so ago I received the Samsung M3200 to review. If I have to be honest I wasn’t expecting much from this little mobile. Sony Ericsson have had an iron clasp grip on the Walkman Mobile market for a very long time now, but they have some exceptionally stiff competition in the Samsung BeatBox! Features: The M3200 is a 96.5 x 46.9 x 16.9 mm mobile that weighs around 101g. The screen resolution is…
"Samsung “BeatBox” M3200 Review"