In this article we will see how we can use the GridView control for this task. This approach still limits us to use a GridView, so after that we will see how we can make a Repeater (or any other control) that renders an HTML table to an excel file.
Clearing HTML tags and MS Word tags from text
It’s a pretty common need for web developers to get the plain text from HTML text. Also, there are cases where users paste text from MS Word. In this article I will post a few simple functions that help me manipulate text that contains HTML and MS Word tags.
The case of the 500-mile email
Here’s a problem that *sounded* impossible… I almost regret posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks at a conference. 🙂 The story is slightly altered in order to protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring details, and generally make the whole thing more entertaining. I was […]
ASP.NET and Ajax. All about update panels, web methods, page methods and jQuery
In this article, we will discuss what ASP.NET offers and a few tips on how to use them. Finally we will leave ASP.NET and see how we can achieve the same functionality with jQuery.
jSmooth – A jQuery plugin
jSmooth is a jQuery plugin which allows you to have a smooth scrolling effect when you are in the same page and navigation is implemented with #anchors. It optionally adds a back button so that the user can return to its starting place and click something else.
Using generics to override static methods
There are cases where the design of an abstract class requires that some static properties should be changed by the child classes (using the new keyword) where as the static functions remained the same. While testing, I realized that the static functions that were declared in the abstract class used the values of the static […]
HTML5 form validation
HTML5 and ccs3 are a really loud buzz in web design for quite some time. The new features can be really powerful tools in a developer’s arsenal. This technology can also be used in all sort of mobile devices. All modern devices have browsers that support all those new exciting features.
Handling server errors in asp.net
When we have a web application in production, there are times where some things go wrong and we have errors. By default we will get the “Yellow Screen of Death”. When the application runs in localhost, a lot of information comes up that is useful to find and squash the bug. But when our application […]