.NET Tips and Tricks

About a year ago i had to architucture some web application with a very rich client side UI.

ASP.NET was an easy choise for a server side code, but what about client side ?
The heavy viewstate, endless event handlers and infinity number of server side requests just to make the GUI  friendly – well, it just didn’t sound as a proper way to do it.

Read more…

We all know that script is blocking element, meaning no content will be rendered untill script block is parsed and executed or downloaded then parsed and then executed in case of externale script.

And we were told endless times that the best practice is to load scripts at the end of web page. It’s true.

We also have document.ready events thanks to numerous javascript frameworks that gives us opportunity to perform most of our JS actions when document is ready to be manipulated. But there are cases when you do need JS blocking features.
Read more…

Let’s say you have to parse some HTML, find all images or some other DOM elements make some changes/optimizations and save the result. What can you do ?

Well, i needed something like that a few days ago and after Googling for couple of hours I ran across this this great library called HtmlAgilityPack.

Read more…

This post is somehow related to my previous post about javascript function context.  Recently I helped one of my friends to debug a very funny problem. He told me that his inline event handler doen’t work, because he could not pass this object to his function.
You probably wonder what did I find?
Read more…

I suppose all of you have suffered all those terrible memory leaks in Internet Explorer.
Sometimes it’s bearable, but most of the time it’s not. I say enough is enough !

Read more…

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Read more…

This is a C# class which allows you to create Web and WinForm captcha control.
The class is very configurable, so finaly you could create a Captcha that suits your needs.
You can hold the Captcha secret key as a session or an encrypted cookie variable.

Coming soon…

CSS sprites group multiple images into one composite image and display them using CSS background positioning.

Coming soon…