CodeDigest.Com Article Contest - August 2009

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Prize for the month August,2009 is announced!!!

1.5-inch LCD Desktop Digital Photo Frame with Stand
Contributions To Win: 3 Articles OR 5 Codesnippets OR 6 FAQ's
Winner: Bala Murugan

Shock-You-Friend Electric Shock Ball Pen (Practical Joke)

Contributions To Win: For Participation..Submit one article OR one code snippet OR a FAQ
Winner: balamurali balaji

Congrats to all the winners!!!

Keep posting your contents..You could be a winner!!

CodeDigest For the Month 9\2009
New Articles Published
Radio Button Custom Field Choice – Going from Vertical to Horizontal with Java Script Roi Kolbringer of KWizCom Professional Services shows readers how to use Java Script to take radio button custom field choices from the norm in MOSS – vertical, to horizontal.
How to Get Next List Item ID in Sharepoint List? Roi Kolbinger, SharePoint Consultant for KWizCom Professional Services explains how to discover the Id of the next list item.
Exploring Themes and Skins in ASP.Net 2.0 ASP.Net 2.0 released many new features that made web development a lot easier. Once such feature is Themes and Skins which can be used to style the page controls and provide a consistent look and feel across the application very easily.
Edit, Update, Delete and Insert data with DataList control using LINQ Often we will get requirements to perform edit, update, delete and insert data displayed using databound controls. Traditionally, we have been doing this using SQL procedure or SQL query with the support of the inbuilt events like edit, update and delete on the databound controls. With the introduction of LINQ, it is now possible to interact with the database using a new querying capability that has .net language syntax called LINQ query. Read more..
Advanced Usages of SqlDataSource Control in ASP.Net-PART 1 With the release of .Netframework 2.0, there are lot of new features added that made the data access very easier and simpler. This release added a new set of data access controls to the asp.net control set called DataSource controls. With these controls, it is now possible to access and do data operations without even writing a single line of code. We will see some of the advance features of this control in this article.
Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON One of my previous article Building Collapsible Panel Control using jQuery in ASP.Net Page discussed the basics of collapsible panel and building a simple collapsible panel with jQuery in an asp.net page. The collapsible panel in my previous article will be fully loaded with the contents when the page is intially rendered to the client. It will be better and light weight when we actually load the contents of the panels only when the user clicks the expand arrow button, a lazy loading or loading
New Features in ASP.Net 4.0-PART 1 Recently, Microsoft released the newer version of its IDE Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 and .Net FX 4. Recently, Microsoft released the newer version of its IDE Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 and .Net FX 4.
New Features in ASP.Net 4.0-PART 2 In Part1 of this article series, we have seen the enhancements made on controlling viewstate, ClientID generation of server controls and some SEO enhancements in ASP.Net 4.0. Moving forward, we will see some more new features the ASP.Net 4.0 offers.
New Codes Published
Fetching specific words from a Text file using c#
Highlight HTML Table Row based on the Row Data Using jQuery
Pass Value to Destination Page When Using Server.Transfer
Open all Hyperlinks in a Page in Separate Window using jQuery
New FAQs Published
How to stop Searchprotocolhost.exe on WindowsXP?
Last Month Winners
Winner:balamurali balaji Shock-You-Friend Electric Shock Ball Pen (Practical Joke) Contribution Done:For Participation..Submit one article OR one code snippet OR a FAQ
Winner:Bala Murugan 1.5-inch LCD Desktop Digital Photo Frame with Stand Contribution Done:3 Articles OR 5 Codesnippets OR 6 FAQ's
Winner: Stylish Translucent Desktop LCD Clock with Digital Thermometer Contribution Done:2 Articles OR 3 Codesnippets OR 4 FAQ's

CodeDigest For the Month 8\2009

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This Month Contest


Shock-You-Friend Electric Shock Ball Pen (Practical Joke)
Contribution Required:For Participation..Submit one article OR one code snippet OR a FAQ


1.5-inch LCD Desktop Digital Photo Frame with Stand
Contribution Required:3 Articles OR 5 Codesnippets OR 6 FAQ's


Stylish Translucent Desktop LCD Clock with Digital Thermometer
Contribution Required:2 Articles OR 3 Codesnippets OR 4 FAQ's



New Articles Published


Working with DateTime Object and Formatting DateTime Object in ASP.Net
DateTime is one of the most frequently used objects in any project we work. Most often, we get requirements to do some basic operations like formatting, adding, comparing on the datetime objects in our projects. This article will help us to understand the DateTime object and other operation we can do with datetime object.


User Controls and Dynamic User controls in ASP.Net
Apart from inbuilt server controls and HTML controls, ASP.Net offers us the flexibility to create our own custom control which can be reused across our project. This is because, not every time the inbuilt asp.net controls will satisfy all our needs. To overcome this difficulty, asp.net infrastructure allows us to create our own custom control and user control to build our own functionalities.


SEO Friendly Custom Paging and Jump To a Page Functionality in GridView Control Using LINQ
The main disadvantage of the inbuilt pager in GridView control is, it is not simply a hyper link to a page but they are associated with javascript which makes a postback to bind the current page records and thus making it not search engine friendly pager. A link is search engine friendly if it has a target page associated with it through href property. Search engines will automatically reach the target page and will index those pages in this case.


Introduction to jQuery in ASP.Net and 10 Advantages to Choose jQuery
jQuery is a light weight javascript library which provides fast and easy way of HTML DOM traversing and manipulation, event handling, client side animations, etc. One of the greatest features of jQuery is, it supports an efficient way to implement AJAX applications because of its light weight nature. Read more in this article..


Consuming WebService in WPF Application
This article explains how to consume a Web Service in WPF Windows application. It requires binding of WPF controls to data coming from a web service.



New Codes Published


Upload file with Progress Bar : In a tweak


Move/Scroll Page to Top After Asynchronous Postback in UpdatePanel in ASP.Net AJAX


Get Selected RadioButtonList Value using JavaScript in ASP.Net


Styling the Alternating Row of HTML table Using jQuery


Selecting HyperLinks based on the Target URL’s Extension Using jQuery



New FAQs Published


"Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates that a COMMIT or ROLLBACK TRANSACTION statement is missing. Previous count = 1, current count = 2."


“The external credentials in the SSO database are more recent”


I need to know that why certain file names on my system turn blue?


'C:\xxx.csproj' cannot be opened because its project type (.csproj) is not supported by this version of the application.


Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Administration, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.


What is the difference between Body.OnLoad and jQuery document.ready() Event?



News Published


IronPython 2.6 Beta 2 released - A real crush in DLR


Microsoft Tag API announcement


Silverlight 3 Released


New MVPs Announced – FY10Q1 (July 2009)