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  • ASP.NET and Images on a Network Share

     The school district I work for had an idea for an application.  The need comes from several angles.  First of all, lunch counts are all done by paper.  Attendance is taken on paper, then it is sent to the Health Room, where tallies are made, and then everything is recorded into our Student Management System (SMS for short), and our Food Service app.  Most (if not all) of our elementary class rooms will have Smart Boards next year.  So we decided to write an app that would allow the students to "check in" in the morning on the smart board.  The kids can go up to the board and select their lunch choice, and do attendance all at once.

  • app_offline.htm

    This is probably old news, but if you temporarily need to take an ASP.Net Application offline, simply drop a file called app_offline.htm into the root directory of the app. This could be helpful when upgrading a live app.  That way, you don't get the ugly app errors that often crop up.  Like I said, old news to most of you, but still a helpful reminder. 

  • jQuery, Facebox and AJAX

    One frustration that I've had for the 4 years that I've been working with AJAX is how messy the front-side code can get. There's lots of JavaScript, and that can get kind of annoying. Plus, there's the design perspective of trying to find the right real-estate to put things in. Where do you have a hidden div pop up and provide space for an update? I've been working on a project for my wife, and I've found a nice way to get around some of that, separate my code a little bit, and clean things up so they aren't so cluttered.