Cutting Edge: ASP.NET Controls Templates

AJAX is meant to go beyond mere partial page rendering. Find out where Dino Esposito thinks dynamic pages are headed in the future with ASP.NET AJAX.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine June 2008

This month Dino looks at AJAX control extenders again, adding more advanced features including masked editing and autocompletion.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine February 2008

AJAX Extenders extend the behavior and features of ordinary Web controls so you can reduce postbacks and control input even better than with AJAX alone.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine January 2008

Great ideas are timeless. A long time ago in Microsoft Systems Journal Paul DiLascia demonstrated a neat trick to display context-sensitive tooltips floating over pictures. As the user moved the mouse over the picture, the tooltip control updated its text to reflect the name of the pointed figure.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine July 2006

In the past, I've covered some core aspects of the interaction between DHTML behaviors, the browser, and ASP. NET runtime (see Cutting Edge: Extend the ASP. NET DataGrid with Client-side Behaviors and Cutting Edge: Moving DataGrid Rows Up and Down).

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine July 2005

The ASP. NET Repeater is a basic container control that allows you to create custom lists from any data available to the page. It's a handy control, especially since most ASP. NET pages that display data need to repeat the same kinds of data over and over.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine June 2005

Although the context menu is a common element of most desktop applications, it is still fairly uncommon in Web application names because it doesn't map well to a server-based technology like ASP. NET.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine February 2005

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MSDN Magazine June 2004

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MSDN Magazine May 2004

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MSDN Magazine November 2003

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MSDN Magazine February 2002

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MSDN Magazine January 2002

Being lazy in software development can be a good thing, but until the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, coders had to implement lazy behavior themselves. Dino Esposito shows how to use the new Lazy class to maximize your resources.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine August 2010

The .NET Framework 4 introduces some new features that enable you to go beyond static types. We explore dynamically expando objects and demonstrate how they can be used like dynamically updatable dictionary objects.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine July 2010

Are you a Microsoft .NET Framework programmer who struggles with critical legacy applications using COM objects that are beyond your control? Dino Esposito shows how to lessen the burden by going dynamic.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine June 2010

C# 4 provide a new dynamic keyword that enables dynamic typing in what has traditionally been a strongly typed language. We explain how the dynamic keyword works and what it offers that casting, var, and System.Object cant' match.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine May 2010

If you need to scale up an existing Web application, you should first look to asynchronous operations, says Dino Esposito. He explains how new features coming in ASP.NET MVC 2 make this easier.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine April 2010