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70) ASP.NET XMLDataSource and Heirarchical Data Controls

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:33:24 +0000

In this video I’ll be looking at the Hierarchical databound controls, they display the heirachy of data file (think windows explorer). I created an XML file of users in order to demonstrate how to use a TreeView and Menu Controls to display heirachy of data. I nested tags within the XML file. (Please open the article [...]

69) ASP.NET Tabular Databound Controls Contd.

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:20:23 +0000

In this video I continue with the 4 databound controls that enable you to display more than one record at a time unlike the databound controls from the previous page. I used Gridview to show you how to display multiple records from the database and page through the records, and also able to delete, insert, update and select records.

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The difference between the Gridview and Datlist is that Gridview diaplay all its record in a single row, whicle Datalist display more than one data item per row, watch the video to see what i mean, sometimes i cannot explain things properly thats why I am a video guy

Repeater databound control is different in the sense that it doesnt automatically generate any view for you, you have to write all the ItemTemplate, EditTemplate etc yourself. This is the controls that will get you in the source view so run if you dont like to see codes lol

I also use the ListView Databound control, you have to configure ListView to choose among many templates that it provide by default. It provides lots of flexibility.

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68) ASP.NET Tabular Databound Controls

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:59:00 +0000

In this video I’ll be looking at Tabular Databound controls which render the datasource data as template or table. Some of these controls only allow you to display one record at a time, so if you have 100 records in your database and you use DetailsView control you only get one record displayed at any time but you can page through these records from first record to the last record.

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67) Introduction to ASP.NET Database & Data Controls

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:43:39 +0000

In this video I’ll be introducing you to ASP.NET Databound and Datasource controls. Databound controls are controls that can be used to display data from any data sources such as SQL database, Access database, XML, Linq and Sitemap. Datasource controls are the controls that link the database to the databound controls. They pump out data from the database for the databound controls to display these data.

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66) Applying Themes Dynamically – Part Two

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:27:55 +0000

This is the 2nd part of the video make sure you have watched the Part 1(previous video). In this video I added another theme, and placed a CSS and a skin file inside the theme folder to further explain how to apply 3 themes dynamically.

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The concept of why i use the anchor text and not a hyperlink server control is very hard for me to explain, but as i said in the previous post, server control events doesnt occur until after the pageload event, and preinit event which we must use to apply our theme always occur before the page load event which means that server events will not be raised when the preinit is executed. Arghhh, hope you understand, just do what i did lol

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65) Applying Themes Dynamically – Part One

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:13:31 +0000

In this video I’ll show you how to apply themes dynamically so your websites users can change the appearance of the web application to suit their taste. I ‘ll be using 2 themes, a green and blue themes. Each theme folder has a CSS and a skin file. The CSS file is used to modify the HTML tags and the skin files are used to modify the server controls.

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I have used normal HTML anchor text to change the theme dynamically. The page event that we must use to apply theme is the PreInit event which always occur before the PageLoad event. I explained in one of my previous videos that PreInit event, comes before PageLoad event, and also that control events happens after PageLoad event, which means we cannot use any server control event to execute the theme change and thats why i use the normal HTML anchor text.

We’ll use a switch statement to apply a theme to the user’s profile. By applying the theme to the users profile it means they can move from page to page without having to choose the theme again, once someone choose a theme, they can come back to the website in the future to the see the same theme again. This is the advantage of using the profile to set the theme.

64) How To Use CSS To Style ASP.NET Control

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:19 +0000

In this video I’ll be looking at how we can use cascading style sheets to change the appearance of our website application. CSS offers more flexibility than skin files, and because it is the defacto (whatever that means lol) language of user interface design then it makes sense that you will need to combine both CSS and skin files.

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63) Theming Our Web Application Using Web.Config File

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:13:49 +0000

In this video you’ll learn;

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how to disable theming for some web server control by setting the EnableTheming property to false
How to set theming for all the controls on your website application so that website pages all use the same theme folder.
Where inside the web.config to include the theme attribute
How to disable theme for a particular page by setting the EnabledTheming to false inside the page directive.
The difference between CSS and Skin Files

62) ASP.NET Default Skin and Named Skin

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:02:08 +0000

In this video I’ll be discussiong the difference between a default skin and a named skin. Sometimes you want one of your controls to have a different appearance from other controls, you have two options, you can either use a named skin or you can use StyleSheetTheme inside the page directives.

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What you will learn in this video;

Named skin – you’ll learn how ti use teh SkinID property of controls
How to use StyleSheetTheme inside the page directives
How to modify the appearance of controls from the property windows and overide the skin file properties.

61) Introduction To ASP.NET Themes

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:50:32 +0000

In this video I’ll be discussing the concept of website themes so that you can apply theme to control the appearance of the web server controls on your website. Master page is different to theme because Master page allows you to share content among multiple pages of your web page but theme is used to modify the server controls appearances.

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