Software / Technology Tips

Content: As we all know ASP.NET provide some validation extenders which can be implemented on controls to validate them at Client & Server side. Some of those validations extenders are : . Required Field Validator (Validate the control for not filling up any information). . Range Validator (Validate the cotrol with respect to lower &…

Why is it needed? Just as C was once a young programming language with primitive compiler support (giving rise to the development of an accessory program called lint to scan a source file looking for problems), JavaScript today is a “young-for-its-age” language with relatively limited developer support. JavaScript is one of the most widely used…

Opening a popup window at center of the screen : Level : Beginner You can open popup window through javascript. But opening it at center of the screen will make it look good for all size of screen. Following is the way to do it : This is the link to open popup window OPEN…

For adding an app bar in every pages of our application we need to add the app bar in the default.html. As we know  when we create a project with use of Navigation Template we can add different pages as Page controls.If we need to  show the app bar in each page control we can…

In my previous tip ‘How to get Skype status on the web application and make call or chat from web application’ I showed how to get skype status by getting a skype icon. But at times we need to get the skype status in text. Here I am giving an example of how to get…

Monitor how much time the server is taking to process a request and to give a response. Sometimes we need to monitor the performance of our web application, like how much time the server is taking to process a page. To find out the time a particular request is taking to get processed we can…

Accessing and saving custom settings from web.config in ASP.NET We usually save our application settings through key and value in appSettings element of web.config file. But accessing the attributes in coding is cumbersome. The string value is needed to enter everytime and then typecasting is need to be done. Example: web.config setting For accessing the…

Each web control has a lot of properties for customization. These properties can be set by the developer during design time or runtime with different predefined values. Such a property is BorderStyle, which is used to set the border of the web controls. This property has a lot values like Solid, dotted  etc etc.. Along…

ASP.NET pager doesn’t provide any direct support for adding tooltip to its different buttons . But there are some work arounds through which you can provide tooltips to ASP.NET data pager. The structure of a simple data pager is as follows: But How ever it provides CSS classes for all set of buttons. And in…

Tabbed browsing feature is enabled by default in Internet Explorer 7 but in case its not, you can go to Menu Tools|Internet Options,  From the preference window that pops up, “General” is the default tab but if it is not than you would have to select “General” and then click on the “settings” button next…