Dialog Without Coding?

Is there a way to make a modal popup panel active on page load so that the user can't do anything until they deal with the popup dialog?

Will there be support for shorthand statements?

Example:

@if(1==1) @: works
@else @: doesn't work

as apposed to;

@if(1==1){
    <text>works</text>
}
else{
    <text>doesn't work</text>
}

Hi All,

How to manage user messages to avoid hardcoding messages accross the web application.

Regards,

Arun

Hi Friends ,

I have done encrypted password and decode but i got error  like  this  " Invalid length for a Base-64 char array" .

Pls help . Thanks

psswd = txtPassword.Text;

pwed = base64Decode(psswd);

public string base64Decode(string sData)
        {
            System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
            System.Text.Decoder utf8Decode = encoder.GetDecoder();
            byte[] todecode_byte = Convert.FromBase64String(sData);
            int charCount = utf8Decode.GetCharCount(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length);
            char[] decoded_char = new char[charCount];
            utf8Decode.GetChars(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length, decoded_char, 0);
            string result = new String(decoded_char); return result;
       

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