Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas

by Khaled Elmahdi 4. March 2010 04:42
Web form is often the main communication channel between visitors and site owners. Feedback is always important which is why it’s necessary to make sure that web forms are easy to understand and intuitive to use. Nevertheless, even in form design one can afford some healthy portion of creativi... [More]

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Design

Add images to SQL Server 2008 directly with stored procedure

by Khaled Elmahdi 16. February 2010 16:14
This is a query to loop inside a folder and insert all the files inside it to a database table DECLARE @imgString varchar(80)DECLARE @insertString varchar(3000) -- Load the files inisde temp table create table #files (imageName varchar(50))insert into #files exec master..xp_cmdshell  'DIR /b... [More]

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ASP.NET MVC 2 (RC2)

by Khaled Elmahdi 9. February 2010 10:24
Microsoft has made available a second Release Candidate build for ASP.NET MVC 2, approximately a month and a half after the first RC was delivered to testers. Phil Haack, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team, revealed that ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate 2 was considered necessa... [More]

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Inline asp.net tags (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

by Khaled Elmahdi 26. January 2010 10:36
There are all sorts of different inline tags, and I haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty... <% ... %> The most basic inline tag, basically runs normal code: <% if (User.IsInRole("admin")) { %>  You can see this<% } else { %&... [More]

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Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010

by Khaled Elmahdi 24. January 2010 10:43
As we are stepping in a new decade, I can foresee that web design in 2010 is going to be fun and filled with experimental works. With the new CSS3 and HTML5, designers and developers are trying to utilize the new features to create impressive designs. Sketchy and large background styles are fading o... [More]

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CSS | Design

25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers

by Khaled Elmahdi 9. December 2009 10:45
Creating an accessible data chart or graph in HTML is very tricky to achieve, especially with some elements, such as images, that allow only the most basic features that give textual information to non-visual users. What are the solutions? PHP, Flash, Javscript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype) and CSS ... [More]

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Design

HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

by Khaled Elmahdi 19. November 2009 10:48
You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to in... [More]

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Design

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta

by Khaled Elmahdi 19. November 2009 10:47
ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using... [More]

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ASP.NET MVC

FaceBook applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms or Silverlight

by Khaled Elmahdi 13. November 2009 10:49
Build your own FaceBook applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms or Silverlight ! Read More Download the SDK Facebook.dll: This is the main assembly that will be used by all applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the Facebook application. This assembly also ha... [More]

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Visual Studio 2010 due March

by Khaled Elmahdi 29. October 2009 10:51
Microsoft is set to announce on Monday that it is ready with a second beta version of its Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 developer tools. Both products are set for a final release on 22 March, Microsoft said.   "Microsoft has reached the home stretch for Visual Studio 2010," ... [More]

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