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March 2007 - Posts

Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:48 PM

Feature complete AutoComplete extender? Not yet.

I just finished making a bunch of changes to the AutoComplete extender in the Toolkit . You can now css style the AutoComplete extender and make it as fancy as you would like it to be, well, as long as the completed content is text, which is what we support
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:25 PM

Insuring, the Toolkit way

My current task at hand is finding a good insurance policy that is kind to my pocket and covers my car well. I have been putting it off for months now, one, because it is so boring and two, because I do not understand "insurance jargon" and have very
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:35 PM

Are you a bot? Say hello to kitty!

Given that I am a Hello Kitty fan and the name of my blog closely resembles it, the news of a Hello Kitty style bot control piqued my interest. There is one more reason that induced me into writing a quick post on it. That is the NoBot control in the
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:19 PM

WYSIBYG...What you see is "before" you get, uhhh... it

One of the most requested controls in the Toolkit is a WYSIWYG editor. There are a bunch of rich text html editors floating around that serve this purpose, so wouldn't having this in the Toolkit be just a "me-too"? I have been thinking if there would
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:57 AM

Late Friday, early Saturday...watching ripped youtube videos?!

Not having a television can get boring sometimes. Given the status quo, I sought entertainment value on the internet, YouTube primarily. In the light of the latest Viacom suing YouTube scandal my Friday evening entertainment seemed particularly relevant.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:27 PM

ContextMenu Extender, anyone?

The Ajax Control Toolkit has a bunch of controls wish-listed and we would like to deliver as many as possible to our customers. One of our new contributors, Ziemowit Skowronski , has volunteered to author a new control which will behave like a context
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:56 AM

Slide Shows and more...

While I was authoring the slideshow extender in the AJAX Control Toolkit I happened to find a very interesting company that actually does *just* slide shows for a living, called Slide , of course with more bells and whistles. There is a Redmond based
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 1:02 AM

My first blog post!

I have several reasons to feel excited today. I have been working on the Ajax Control Toolkit for almost 4 months now and we had a major release last night. It is action packed with localization and theming support, compressed javascript for smaller dowloads,
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