5th August 2008

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In this article, Abdulla demonstrates how to create a new Ajax extender from scratch, which expands the properties of ASP.NET controls, by adding custom Tooltip behavior that targets all types of web controls dragged to your page. He first provides a short overview of Ajax extender controls and then delves deep into the creation of a new Ajax extender with the help of Visual Studio. He provides a detailed analysis of the code along with relevant screenshots. At the end of the article, Abdulla examines how to make use of the created extender control along with a link to the complete source code.

http://aspalliance.com/1686_Creating_a_Custom_Tooltip_Ajax_Extender_Control

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Last week in the ASP Alliance Times Newsletter, we featured an article by Xianzhong Zhu, Developing an ASP.NET AJAX Server Centric Based Mini Blog System - Part 1. This week, we published the second installment of this series of articles, Developing an ASP.NET AJAX Server Centric Based Mini Blog System - Part 2. These articles are going through the steps required to create this mini blog system, and include plenty of images as well as source downloads along the way. Keep following ASP Alliance next week for the third and final installment of this series of articles where Xianzhong works on the portion of the site for the readers.

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In this review, Shaun discusses Darren Neese's book, DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial. Shaun looks at the book from the eyes of a developer whose area of expertise is not design. He offers his insight into the book here.

In most cases, server controls are very useful in ASP.NET web applications since they have some valuable events (click event, data binding event, data bound event, etc) and other advanced functionality like state management, input validation, etc. In general, XSLT produces plain XML or HTML without any hassle, but if we want to create our ASP.NET server controls by using XML and XSLT then we should follow some procedures which the author has outlined in this article. After providing a brief introduction, he examines the steps involved such as preparing XML document, preparing XSLT document to transform XML data, defining server and validation controls according to XML document, parsing controls, and defining event handlers with the help of relevant code samples along with detailed analysis.

In the previous part, Xianzhong Zhu discusses the general architecture of the blog system which he is developing. In this second part, you will master the management of the blog application. He provides comprehensive coverage of the creation of various administration back-end tools like category, article, link, and message management modules with the help of relevant screenshots and source code.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to create thumbnails for images. He creates a class implementing the IHttpHandler interface to make image requests show thumbnail images on a sample site. [5:07]

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