Archive for December, 2008

 

Understanding ASP.NET Page Life Cycle and TRULY understanding ViewState

 
Overview I once thought that writing an ASP.NET page is like writing a Form in a Desktop Application, all I have to take care are just about event handlers likes "Page_Load", "Button_Click". There is no concept of persisting states in page or controls in my mind ( I am just a Noob…) Actually [...]

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Using custom workflow for SharePoint page approval (web content management)

 
Overview SharePoint provides a out-of-the-box mechanism for Web Content Management (WCM) in document library (for example: a page author must seek web master approval before his page can be viewed by publish). But sometimes we may want to use our custom workflow for the approval process, and indeed it is possible to do so [...]

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Terminal Service Gateway in Windows Server 2008

 
Overview Terminal Service & Remote Desktop allow you to access your computer/server virtually anywhere with Internet access. They are very useful and commonly used. However, there is no way to pre-authenticate client or have centralized Authorization Policy settings. Now, with Windows Server 2008 Terminal Service Gateway, we can make use of all this features. [...]

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Add validation function to ASP.NET AJAX Tab control

 
Overview In my previous post, I talked about how to make AJAX Tab control panel to load on-demand. Now I would like to extend that sample and implement validation function to each tab, so that user cannot change tab if the information they enter is not valid. I am going to use the [...]

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Make ASP.NET AJAX Tab control panel load ‘on-demand’

 
Overview ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is surely a very useful toolbox for ASP.NET web developer. However, some of the Toolkit’s controls are not fully "AJAX" enabled in my point of view. "AJAX Tabs" is one of the controls that I like the most but also want it to be better. One of the [...]

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AJAX Control Toolkit – Tab Control Themes

 
Overview Damien White have a post discussing how to customize theme in a ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Tab Control. Reference AJAX Control Toolkit – Tab Control – Themes

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