Matt Berseth

If you use AJAX in your web app's, you no doubt have made use of some sort of progress/status indicator that lets the user know that some operation is currently executing.  In the app I am currently working on we use an animated gif for this.  It works great, but sometimes you might find it nice to have more control over the indicator - i.e. interacting with it via JavaScript and styling it using CSS. So I did a little research and found a nice example of one built using script.aculo.us.  The demo page looked great so I downloaded the source to get a feel for how it worked.  I liked what I saw so I thought I would create a new AjaxControlToolkit control based on this example.  My original goal was just to port it over to ASP.NET, but as I started playing around with it I thought I...

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I know most dev's prefer writing new code over fixing/maintaining the existing stuff.  And most days I feel the same way.  But every once in a while it is kind of fun signing up for that one lingering defect that no one else can seem to fix.  Maybe you know the one - its not reproducible, only occurs in production and brings the system to its knee's?  Sound familiar? Well I thought I might try something new and blog about some of the juicy bugs we have found hanging out in our app.  This might turn into a blog series or something, or maybe not.  Who knows. The Bug The app I am currently working on has a page that uses ASP.NET AJAX's new Timer control to automatically refresh the page every 30 seconds.  The page is one of those status pages that lets you monitor the progress of some...

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I am working on a project that needs a new screen for bulk entry tasks.  We have a few business scenarios coming up where we have people inputting 5 to 8 records of data at a time.  I met with a few of our analysts last week and hashed out a rough outline of what they were looking for.  About 10 times or so during the 30 minute meeting some form of the phrase 'kind of like excel' was mentioned.  Our data entry personnel are familiar with excel and our analysts thought an excel styled grid would make a lot of sense.  'An excel grid with a Submit button' was the phrase I had underlined twice in my notes.  I wasn't too worried about the grid's styling, but I wasn't quite sure what the best way to handle the 'bulk insert' requirement.  Most of our other grids require an explicit...

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