JQuery

Using jQuery to Simulate the <Blink> tag

March 15, 2010 · 2 min read

While this post actually has nothing to do with ASP.NET MVC directly, the only common denominator is that I came up with this technique while working on the platform.

To be a true 1:1 copy of the previous website I would be converting to ASP.NET MVC, I had to come up with a way to reintroduce the <blink> tag to XHTML. While you are perfectly able to use <blink> it doesn't actually do any blinking in IE8 or Firefox. To show that properly, jQuery comes to the rescue.

The technique is really pretty simple:

  1. Define your element with an arbitrary id or class (i.e.: <div id="#alertheader">)
  2. Style the content accordingly
  3. Use jQuery/javascript to show and hide content on an interval
setInterval(function(< ...

Upcoming ASP.NET MVC posts

January 20, 2010 · 1 min read

Most of this may or may not be relevant to your situation but after completing development, staging, and most of the production implementation of an ASP.NET MVC site I wanted to share some of what I learned.

The majority are one or two-off hacks from someone else's code or a down/upgrade where appropriate, creating a Frankenstein. These won't necessarily be in order I don't think.

  • Homepage - various jQuery plugins & content fetching
  • Content/ structure

  • Elmah

    • Code version: 1.1.11517.2009
    • Downgraded ELMAH_LogError stored procedure to SQL 2000
    • ELMAH_LogError pruning taken from 2 blog posts from a single source
  • Editing 1:1, 1:M or M:M in Entity Framework
  • Validation with xVal and DataAnnotations - straight up from the samples
  • Image/Link/CSS/JScriptHelpers - using tagbuilder to eliminate a lot of code in markup

  • jQuery uses

    • Delete links - tweak of ...