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Rocky Lhotka discusses .NET 2.0's new smart DataTable technology and examines Whidbey's RAD support for object data binding in .NET 2.0 Windows Forms. [Read This Article][Top]
Conrad Jalali shows how to build Web custom controls by creating one that displays checkboxes in a categorized, hierarchical view. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how to use .NET to communicate with the X10 Firecracker Home Automation System through a PC's serial port. Then build a mobile Web form to access all X10-enabled appliances from a wireless device. [Read This Article][Top]
Bill Gates, in a recent interview, predicted the end of spam by 2006. One of the methods he mentioned involved a challenge only a real live person could handle. Adnan Masood shows how to use AI and .NET to create a user verification scheme that incorporates similar concepts Gates alluded to. [Read This Article][Top]
ASP.NET validation controls are very useful for validating user input that posts back to the same page. But how do you use these controls to validate input when posting to another page? Paul Litwin explains. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Luther Stanton shows how to combine inheritance and server controls to create a self-populating drop-down-list control. [Read This Article][Top]
Creating custom authentication schemes just became easier. Jeff Gonzalez continues to explain Forms Authentication, this time using a custom XML file. [Read This Article][Top]
In the third and final installment of Advanced Form Presentation and Printing, Eric Coffman describes how to separate form presentation in a browser from the way the form prints out without processing the form through a CGI script or other means; everything is handled client-side. Learn how to create pleasing-looking forms without the need for Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader. [Read This Article][Top]
In part two of advanced form presentation and printing, Eric Coffman uses the FDF Toolkit ActiveX version to show the versatility of the FDFApp object and demonstrates how to handle a Forms Data Format (FDF) file in a real-world situation. [Read This Article][Top]
This three-part article by Eric Coffman details the dynamic creation of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF forms with ASP and describes the handling of all the most common form elements. You will be able to connect Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF forms to a database and retain, even extend Adobe's acclaimed portability and printability. This is like eating your cake and having TWO left! And if that's not enough, part three describes a method of simulating Adobe's features with CSS level 2's @media features combined with DHTML. [Read This Article][Top]
Edward R. Myers explains how FormLib is a code framework that eliminates the tedious aspects of programming cross-browser client and server-side validation of input forms. Generate the validation code directly from the database structure and auto-fill the fields when editing an existing record. Include one JavaScript and one ASP file into your page and have the form post the results to itself. [Read This Article][Top]
Build multipart MIME upload forms using the InputFile HTML Server Control and learn how to take advantage of the file-upload services built into the HTTP runtime for ASP.NET. Save the uploaded file to disk without granting anonymous users file-write access to folders on your Web server. Then wrap all this in a new ASP.NET user control, which will allow you to add file upload capabilities to almost any Web page quickly and easily. [Read This Article][Top]
Compared to most elements of Web application design, HTML forms are refreshingly simple so you can focus more on business and data tier design. Nonetheless, it's still possible to spend an extraordinary amount of time developing and maintaining forms. With care, you can reduce the effort behind this task and produce better results as well. [Read This Article][Top]
Eric Barr explains how Mobile Forms are used on Web sites that request users to enter personal data "just-in-time" -- the data is entered only when they want to use features that depend on that data, breaking up the personal data entry into small, less-intimidating forms. If several site features require the same piece(s) of data, the Mobile Form is used to display and process the same form on different Web pages without duplicating the same code everywhere. [Read This Article][Top]
When faced with a Web site that requires a new validated form to be designed on a regular basis by a nontechnical client, Gaddo Benedetti’s offers examples that help take the drudgery out of the work and give that user direct control over the site. Benedetti uses a database to define and store information about this complex form. The same database that will eventually hold the information that is submitted to the form can be used.. The form definition requires two tables; one for the form field definition and a second to hold subelements to each field, such as list options. Sample code is provided. [Read This Article][Top]
Travis Giggy demonstrates how to put ASP tags inside of JavaScript blocks so developers can fit large amounts of data into one form on a single page. He offers an overview of things that can be done with dynamic JavaScript with ASP and data queries. [Read This Article][Top]
Boaz Sigelman shows how to seamlessly convert between HTML form entry and database storage. The article contains example and code that shows how to use the 1touch component. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, the eight string functions offered by Jason Stehle check data entered in an HTML text box and clean it up before it reaches the database. Stehle shows how these functions can structure the data so it meets the sometimes strict requirements of the destination database [Read This Article][Top]
As Web sites become more powerful by integrating database functionality, we are forced to build more robust user interfaces for these sites. This article by Mike Tickle discusses the new generation of web site UIs that must be developed with all types of users in mind. [Read This Article][Top]
