Anne Kowalski

Friday, June 05, 2009

jQuery Pager

I’d like to give a big thanks to Mark Perkins, the creator of jQuery Quick Paginate. I was working on .NET project the past couple of days that required pagination, and the built-in data pager incorporated within the listview I was using was just not doing the trick. I incorporated data filtering via a drop-down list, and it worked great…until I tried jumping to the next page, then the filter would reset and ALL the results were shown instead of just the filtered items. Rather than spend more time trying to figure out why this was happening, I decided to scrap ASP.NET’s built-in pager and go with a jQuery solution. As usual, jQuery took a tiny bit longer to implement than a .NET control but ended up doing a faster, cleaner, and better job.

In order to incorporate this page you declare the div (or list item or whatever you want to page) you want to target within the head of the document in typical jQuery style, along with your paging container div. I don’t think the paging container div is required, but it gives far more flexibility in how you want the footer of the page to look. You also declare the amount of items you want to appear per page. I found this much more useful than declaring how much content you want to appear within a certain height.

Friday, September 12, 2008

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Install Error: Request for Permission Type Failed

While trying to install the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit on a computer with Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1, I encountered the following error:

What worked for me was copying AjaxControlToolkit.dll from the SampleWebSite\bin folder of the Control Toolkit Framework, and pasting the file into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE folder. When I went to add AjaxControlToolkit.dll to my AJAX Control Toolkit tab in the Toolbox, the error was gone, and all of the controls loaded. So if you are encountering this error, try manually installing AjaxControlToolkit into the IDE folder.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

How to Hide Formview Rows Conditionally

Here’s a solution for conditionally hiding rows in Formview.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Ajax Loading Animation Images

Ajaxload has tons of little Ajax-style loading animation images. The generator allows you to choose background and foreground colors for a completely customized image to fit into your design. I used this to generate a graphic for use within the UpdateProgress control on an ASP.NET project.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Moving from ExpressionEngine to WordPress

Want to move your blog from the ExpressionEngine platform to WordPress? This is a great tutorial on how to accomplish this. I used this technique to convert my other ExpressionEngine website back to WordPress, and it worked amazingly well.