Gilly Barr

Cleaning up that ugly client side aspx code

My new blog post on the subject : Cleaning up that ugly client side aspx code Gilly.

Generating dynamic forms :: part 1

Here's a link to my new blog post : Generating dynamic forms :: part 1 Enjoy, Gilly.

Working with entities instead of DataTable objects

Here's a link to my new blog post : Working with entities instead of DataTable objects Enjoy, Gilly.

Join on tables using Fluent NHibernate

I wrote a short and good post about creating an entity from joined tables using Fluent NHibernate. You can view it here : http://debuggerstepthrough.blogspot.com/2011/01/join-on-tables-using-fluent-nhibernate.html :), Gilly.

Moving out...

Hey, I haven't written here for a while, and even when i did it wasn't too often... For some reason i thought that if I open a new blog I'll get more motivation to post more often, as i think managing a blog is one of the best ways to learn! I'm moving out, this time (hope for the last time) to blogger. Please visit me at : http://DebuggerStepThrough.blogspot.com (I just had to find a nice geeky name for the new blog) Enjoy, - Gilly.

tinyMCE - The best WYSIWYG editor!

Searching for a WYSIWYG editor : I've been searching the internet these past few days for the best free WYSIWYG editor... For those who aren't familiar with the term - WYSIWYG is an abbreviation for What You See Is What You Get editor. It's those small word editors you see on sites like this one that allow you to use rich text and even view your text in html. I've been using these editors for sites i've been building for quite a while, finding them very comfortable. I used to...

Tips and Tricks :: Creating a floating "Loading" panel...

The other day I wanted to add one of those nice floating "Loading" panels for an ajax site I created. For some reason I didn't think it would be this easy... All I did was add an UpdateProgress control, and to that I added an AlwaysVisibleControlExtender from the ajaxControlToolkit. Then I wanted the background to become gray and give the screen the disabled look while loading. All I did was insert an invisible div tag into my UpdatePanel, and when the user triggered an update event...

Server response to user events in a GridView (…or anywhere)

On a web application I have, I used the GridView control and binded it to some data source. Since all the data needed to go through some process, I did all the binding through the code-behind. I needed to add a column of checkboxes and have that column editable to the user. More what, I wanted some server reaction when the user triggers the CheckChanged event for every checkbox. I searched the net for some solutions, and found a lot, but all seemed too complicated and involved too much code. So after...

Bug: adding a CalendarExtender in an UpdatePanel...

I tried adding a CalendarExtender (from the ajaxControlToolkit) within an UpdatePanel control, but everytime I tried triggering the calendar the updatepanel would refresh and i wouldn't be able to choose a date. Frankly, I don't know why this happens, but I solved it by adding a CalendarExtender somewhere on the page outside the UpdatePanel control. I attached this CalendarExtender to a TextBox with Visible=false so no change is recognized...

Avoiding spam using generated email address images

Now a days you can't publish an email address anywhere without receiving a bunch of spam immediately after. Those spam web crawlers just search everysite looking for everything and anything that resembles an email address. I very often see people use different variations of writing their email like "myname at mydomain.com" or "myname at mydomain dot com". I don't think this covers it anymore... The best way, in my opinion, is to create an image of the email address instead...

Updating the server through client events (a.k.a. AJAX)

Running into a problem that needed simple ajax to solve. Now the solution seems obvious, but at the moment alot of people surprised me......