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I previously posted about how to use the Microsoft Ajax Library in order to provide Globalization script functionality without using the ScriptManager control.  Why would you want to do this? One issue is that Microsoft is currently working on the ASP.NET MVC framework, which will provide a way of doing web applications that is more familiar ...

code download Sessions are a way of preserving information on a web site between page hits, allowing the programmer to emulate a stateful application when, in fact, web pages are not really stateful.  They are also among the banes of web development, since sessions eventually timeout when there is no interaction between the user and the web ...

download source code ASP.NET has been missing a good, free tab control for a long time.  With the ACT Tab Container, we were finally given one.  It typically runs in client-side only mode, but can interact with server-code if we set its AutoPostback property to true. Compared to what we had before, it is a huge improvement.  The ...

The problem with conjuring tricks is that they lose practically all their glamour once you find out how they are done.  It's very cool to see David Blaine walk down the street, do a few passes over his hand, and resurrect a fly which proceeds to flee.  It's rather disappointing to do a google search and discover that in order to ...

I just spent about four hours trying to solve a problem I'll probably never actually encounter in the wild.  Someone posted on the asp.net forums about script globalization using ASP.NET AJAX.  This can be set up pretty easily by simply using the ScriptManager control and setting its EnableScriptGlobalization property to true.  ...

Just logged into my Google email account.  I have a list of dozen or so chained emails (bunch of replies between me and few of my coleques).  Expanding one of the replies (they are inside colapsible regions), revelead the error bellow: Now who would debug auto generated script file of 173 million lines of code?  Enough with the ...