Most data driven web sites have to manage lots of small lists. Examples include things like states, countries, levels, and even things like sex where you may only have two choices. (especially if you have internationalization issues). The simplest way to store this information is in static lists simply defined programatically. Below is an example of this.
public static string[] MonthNames =
new string[] { “January”,“February”,“March”,
“April”,“May”,“June”,“July”,
“August”,“September”,“October”,“November”,“December”};
This works, but requires you modify your code in order to update a list. Not good in my opinion.
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Using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Design Templates
Author: Peter Kellner
Date: August 27th, 2006
Our Story
It’s Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up and running yesterday! For those of you who don’t know what a codecamp is, basically, it’s a developer to developer weekend meeting where high quality presentations are given to an audience of enthusiastic developers. Typically, 30 or 40 speakers running simultanious presentations to 300 or so attendees. Codecamps are all Volunteer, all free, and always on a weekend. So, our web site needs to allow sign ups for speakers and their presentations, attendess to let us know they are coming, provide information about the Venue as well as ultimately provide scheduling information about classes. Most importantly, it needs to do it with style and pizazz.
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| Author: | Peter Kellner, 73rd Street Associates |
| Date: | August 20, 2006 |
| Location: | San Jose, California USA |
| Topic: | Custom Server Control for CAPTCHA, Part 1 Usage |
Background
CAPTCHA stands for (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). The technology was originally developed at Carnegy Mellon University to help tell the difference between a human entering data into a computer system and a machine. The process typically involves showing the user a distorted picture of text and numbers, then the user must interpret this, type what they see into a text field and the computer checks for correctness. Below is a picture of a typical CAPTCHA expression. Wikipedia has a nice definition for CAPTCHA here.
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Microsoft just published my third article. This one is titled: "Member/Role Management with IIS, Part 3: AJAX Enhancements with Microsoft’s Atlas".
You can find it on MSDN here, or on my blog here.
Here is the introduction.
Introduction
This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft’s implementation of AJAX called Atlas. It utilized two techniques for reducing web server traffic to the browser to enhance the users web experience. The first technique uses the UpdatePanel tags to limit the refreshed area of the web page to limited areas and the second has to do with implementing some javascript using Atlas techniques so that the web page is updated on every key stroke in a textbox. A user list is displayed based on what is actively typed into this textbox. After reading this article the developer will be able to implement AJAX (Microsoft’s implementation Atlas) in their own application.
