Andy Smith's BlogPage.RegisterStartupScript('Andy', 'MetaBuilders_WebControls_GainKnowledge();');Composite controls that do their own databinding- August 30, 2004 Most databound controls are written from the perspective that they will be databound to something, but the control writer doesnt know what that would be. It is assumed that the controls container will set the datasource and databind it. Therefore the same container knows about and handles the datasource, databinding, viewstate usages, event handling, etc. This works great. But then application developers come along and want self contained controls, like, say A composite control which contains a.http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/archive/2004/08/29/222442.aspx SP2 IE and about:mozilla- August 17, 2004 So one change in IE that came with sp2, that I haven't seen anybody comment on, is that about:mozilla is gone. Before I installed sp2, i had my homepage set to about:mozilla because it gave a nice colored window as the default. But now all it does it show the word "mozilla" on a white background. If you are annoyed that your nice default html is no longer around, there is a little trick that not many people know, which is that you can put any html you want in an about url, and IE will show it...http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/archive/2004/08/17/215627.aspx The Death of DynamicImage- August 17, 2004 Of all the features cut from asp.net v2, the only one that I'm really going to miss is the loss of DyanmicImage and the Image Generation Service. Not so much because it's a little harder to do dynamic images in my app without them, but because it's much harder to do dynamic images in my 3rd party server controls without them. The fact that you will be able progmatticly register custom IHttpHandlers in web.config mitigates the situation a bit, but not enough.http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/archive/2004/08/17/215541.aspx |