Don't miss out on your chance to attend great sessions on the latest ASP.NET and other .NET related technologies at VSLive San Francisco! You can save up to $695 on the Gold Passport registration that entitles you to attend the entire San Francisco conference by registering with the code SPBOE. Here are two sessions I will be giving:
Exploring the AJAX Control Toolkit
Discover how to add great new functionality to ASP.NET web sites using the AJAX Control Toolkit. Review the masked edit extender which allows the developer to specify a specific pattern that the input must match. This extends the TextBox control to display the mask to the user for better feedback about what is required for entry. See how the AlwaysVisibleControl extender can keep a control pinned to a specific area of the browser so that even when the user scrolls the content will be visible. Learn how the Accordian control can allow multiple areas with content with only one displayed at a particular time. These are just a handful of the controls available from the toolkit. Why live with dated user experiences in your ASP.NET web sites when these can enhance the site experience so easily?
Exploiting the ASP.NET Adapter Architecture
ASP.NET provides the ability to override control and page rendering in order to tailor the output for specific browsers or provide new behaviors. A recent example of the power of this architecture is the "ASP.NET CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0" provided by Microsoft that can be used to render existing ASP.NET controls with CSS rather than tables (such as the Menu control). Another great use of adapters is to use session storage for viewstate rather than a hidden client field saving bandwidth and improving performance, which can be easily accomplished with a custom page adapter. Discover how to exploit adapters on your web site, and how to use alternative rendering or behavior without abandoning existing controls!
