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Using DayPilot with ASP.NET MVC

Author: Craig Stuntz I’m going to demonstrate how to use the open-source DayPilot Lite calendar control in an ASP.NET MVC application. I will discuss the capabilities of the control and consider the general problem of how to use controls designed for “plain” ASP.NET in MVC applications. I’m including a demo solution which you can download and run yourself. Download the demo…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Deleting Records

Author: Craig Stuntz This is the fifth post in a series on using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC. Today, we’re going to begin examining the grid’s editing features by implementing deletes. If you’re new to the series, you might want to start at the beginning. The delete…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Finally, A Solution

Author: Craig Stuntz Having introduced jqGrid and written LINQ extension methods to make supplying data to the grid easy, we’re now ready to put together a demo application. The solution I’m going to build demonstrates sorting and paging. In a future post, I will enhance it to demonstrate search, formatting, and editing data. I’ve made the demo application available for download…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: LINQ Extensions

Author: Craig Stuntz Mere hours after I posted the first in a planned series of posts on using jqGrid in ASP.NET MVC applications, Phil Haack, a rather-more-widely-read-ASP.NET-MVC-blogger, wrote a long post on, er, exactly the same thing. Who, me, bitter? Naahhh… 🙂 But…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Introduction

Author: Herwig H10162 This is the first post in a short series on using the jqGrid jQuery plug-in with ASP.NET MVC. In this short introduction I will describe the plug-in, list some of its strengths and weaknesses, and explain why we selected it for our MVC applications. In…
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ASP.NET MVC TempData Is Really RedirectData

Author: Craig Stuntz Update: This post was written for MVC 1. TempData behaves completely differently in MVC 2 Beta and higher. In these versions, TempData is cleared only when it is read (or when the session expires). Many people seem to be confused about the TempData feature in ASP.NET MVC. TempData behaves like the ViewData dictionary, except that it persists until the next request from the…
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Customizing jQuery Validation

Author: Andrew Bond While doing some bug fixing and cleanup in a web application, I had the chance to go a little deeper into the jQuery user input validation framework. There are many tutorials available about implementing custom validations. But what I wanted to do was to…
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Multicast events using generics

Author: Allen Ever since before Delphi 1, the (then Delphi only) RAD Studio IDE has been full of home-grown multicast event class types. I usually refer to these as an “event bus.” This is from my hardware days when I designed microcontroller based…
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Modeling databases with Embarcadero ER/Studio: an InterBase example

Author: Andreano Lanusse T1394 As you know Embarcadero is a database company, now a database and developer company. A number of great database tools are coming, one of these tools is ER/Studio, which is a tool specialized in database modeling. ER/Studio is independent of the database, offering native integration with MySQL, Oracle, Sysbase, and DB2. To connect to other databases, you can use…
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