Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in May 2009

Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin
May 25, 2009 @ 11:20 pm

Inline editing content is a feature that's novel and highly useful at the same time. I've been using it in a number of admin interfaces to provide very easy and quick text updates to existing content. There are a number of ways to accomplish this but in this post I'll discuss a contentEditable jQuery plugin that makes any content inline editable using the DOM's contentEditable attribute that maintains text formatting in the editable text.

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Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache
May 21, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

Got bitten by a silly problem that nevertheless has happened to me on several occasions: I'm trying to use OutputCaching in an HttpModule and found that the output simply NEVER cached. After some lengthy debugging I realized I missed an obvious problem that stared me straight in the face: A Response.End() after output generation that causes the pipeline to bypass caching.

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LINQ to SQL and alternate Providers
May 18, 2009 @ 3:12 am

I’ve tried an interesting experiment today trying to see if I can get LINQ to SQL to run with a custom ADO.NET Data Provider I’ve created some time ago. Basically I implemented a provider that is a proxy to a remote Web ‘service’ that can marshal SQL commands via Web Requests on a remote server. I implemented a custom provider for this interface that ships XML across the wire and marshals...

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jQuery Sortable Plug-in and unwanted Clicks
May 12, 2009 @ 11:52 am

The jQuery .sortable plug-in is one of the nicest jquery.ui components. It looks and feels great, is easy to use and provides a common feature for user interfaces. However I've run into an issue a few times with the .sortable behavior triggering clicks when items are dropped at the end of a sort operation. Here's how to get around this.

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An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug
May 11, 2009 @ 2:47 am

Ran into a real sneaky but that only shows up in pre-IE 8 standards mode versiosn of Internet Explorer. Any parent elements that contain child elements that have position: relative set cannot be contained in the parent container via overflow settings or even a fixed height, resulting in elements spilling out of the bottom of the container. It appears there's no direct workaround short of using a different approach to element positioning.

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Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config
May 04, 2009 @ 6:27 pm

One often overlooked feature of the ASP.NET runtime is the ability to specify default namespaces and control prefixes in web.config which can make it much easier to reference components in your pages. As more and more developers move away from using the designer and live exclusively in markup getting your custom controls to show without @Register tags is especially useful. Here's how.

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