Archive For January 2009

Preventing duplicate User Names with ASP.NET and jQuery

calendar_today 24 January 2009 18:18

AJAX Javascript ASP.NET 3.5 jQuery

It's a common problem: you have a registration form, but you want to prevent user names or other values from being used more than once. You need a user-friendly way to prevent duplicate values being submitted. This is where the simplicity of jQuery excels.

Ajax with Classic ASP using jQuery

calendar_today 17 January 2009 23:13

Classic ASP VBScript AJAX Javascript jQuery

My simple article on Ajax with Classic ASP is one of the most popular on this site. So I thought it's about time I updated it to show how to use jQuery to Ajaxify a Classic ASP page. Since I did that, the jQuery version became even more popular but needed to be brought up to date. This latest version uses a couple of suggestions that have been provided by commentors to improve the code. I have also added a download which contains all the code needed to run the samples.

Cascading DropDownLists with jQuery and ASP.NET

calendar_today 13 January 2009 08:47

AJAX Javascript ASP.NET 3.5 jQuery

Cascading DropDownLists or dependent dropdowns are the signature dish for AJAX applications. I spent quite a while fiddling to try to get some to work, before stumbling across a life-saving jQuery plugin that makes working with DropDownLists on the client-side a breeze. This article shows how it all works, and makes use of the WebService I introduced in my previous jQuery article.

Handling JSON Arrays returned from ASP.NET Web Services with jQuery

calendar_today 10 January 2009 09:09

AJAX Javascript ASP.NET 3.5 jQuery ASP.NET Web Forms

There appear to be many articles showing how to use jQuery with ASP.NET Web Services around, but the vast majority of them illustrate the use of PageMethods that return a single value - typically "Hello World!" or the current date and time. Not much use in the real world, where you may more often need to call a service that returns a collection of complex objects. Here are a couple of examples that look at playing with more than just simple values.

Upload and Crop Images with jQuery, JCrop and ASP.NET

calendar_today 05 January 2009 13:54

C# AJAX Javascript ASP.NET 3.5 jQuery

I got given jQuery In Action for Christmas. By nature, I'm kind of a late adopter, and I'm already regretting this fact. jQuery has been around for some time, and I wished I had looked at it sooner. It's a fantastic library that really simplifies Javascript development, and is already attracting a goodly number of plug-ins. JCrop is one such, and while it hasn't yet reached version 1.0, it is remarkably easy to use as a web based image cropper. Here's how to put jQuery, JCrop and a FileUpload control together to allow users to upload images and crop them.