Security FreeTextBox and Asp.Net 4.0 request validation In Asp.Net 4.0 the request validation model has changed (Yet another breaking change). In short, request validation is a security feature of Asp.Net which meant to prevent XSS and script injection attacks. As of 4.0 the behavior of request validation
ASP.NET AutoComplete Extender Troubleshooting One of my tasks in our last release was to create a search box for a large value tree. For the implementation we (my team leader Doron and I) decided to use the AutoComplete extender from the Ajax Control Toolkit. While implementing, we ran
ASP.NET Handling unhandled exceptions from AJAX.Net postback A couple of days ago, I had to deal with a bug in a page I wrote. The page contains a couple of UpdatePanel controls. For some reason, when an exception was thrown during the PostBack of one of this panels, the page was
DEV DefaultButton, UpdatePanel and System.Web Last week I've encountered a very weird problem when I tried to use the new DefaultButton property of an Asp.Net Panel in an UpdatePanel. I used two Panels, each one in a different UpdatePanel, and set the DefaultButton. Something like this: <asp:
Ajax UpdatePanelExtender Upgrade In Updating an UpdatePanel in the Client side, I described how I was able to update an UpdatePanel from the client side. The solution was pretty simple: Create an extender which adds an hidden button to the update panel, and performs a click on
ASP.NET Updating an UpdatePanel in the Client side In the last couple of weeks I have been learning the ASP.Net Ajax extensions and Ajax Control Toolkit. It really is an amazing framework for simple and complex web applications. While I was practicing the technology, I notice that there was something missing.
ASP.NET Failed to access IIS metabase In the last couple of weeks I've formatted and reinstalled my laptop. It was one of the longest installations I've ever done and I encountered many problems during the installation. This was a really annoying one. After I finished the installation of windows, updated
Debug Client Script Debugging One of the tools provided with Visual Studio 2005 is the Script Explorer. This tool can be used to view all the JavaScript that have been loaded so far, accessing the functions and objects and debug the script simply by using breakpoints. You can
ASP.NET The elusive ReadOnly TextBox Suppose you a have a text box in an ASP.Net page. This text box needs to contains calculated values from other inputs that will be received from the user (other text boxes). The user can not change the text in the TextBox directly.