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1. Tabs
2. Tooltips
3. Expose
4. Overlay
5. Scrollable
6. FlashEmbed

So now you are thinking “Whats so great about this? We already have tons of jQuery plugins for this…”. I thought so too.

The striking advantage of this library is that these tools can be combined, extended and styled, giving you potentially unlimited options for creating customized widgets for your web pages. The website also features great and detailed examples to help you get started, and features some of the best practices recommended by Yahoo engineers. [ref : Best Practices for speeding up your website]

1. Remove Unused Usings : This option will remove any using directive not required by your code. Note : Please build your application before executing this option to ensure that any required directives are not removed.
2. Sort Usings : This option will organize your Using directives alphabetically giving precedence to the System name-space.
3. Remove and Sort : Use this option to execute the above operations together.

1. In the Tools menu, select Options…
2. Check the Show all settings options
3. In the Text Editor > JScript choose the Formatting option.
4. On the right pane, there are two options under the ‘New lines’ section. Check them as per your requirement.

function GetUrlParams()
{
          var vars = [], hash;
           var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf(‘?’) + 1).split(‘&’);
 

        for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
        {
                hash = hashes[i].split(‘=’);
                vars.push(hash[0]);
                vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
        }
        return vars;
}

The above function, will read the url, get the query string part i.e from (“?”) and split each paramter by the (“=”) character and create a name value pair allowing us to access the param value using the param name.

For example, if we are have a test.htm in http://www.example.com and the url is : http://www.example.com/test.htm?fname=Adnan&lname=Rashid

To access the param values we can use something like :

var params = GetUrlParams();

alert(params["fname"]);

alert(params["lname"]);

<asp:TextBox ID="txtExample" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="revExample" runat="server"
ControlToValidate="txtExample" ValidationExpression="[\s\S]{1,200}"
Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="Length cannot be greater than 200 characters" />

The above markup validates the revExample TextBox / textarea and limits the max characters to 200. By modifying the regular expressions, we can validate fields for any scenario. If you are looking for some Regular Expressions to get started out, just point your browser to http://regexlib.com/

Cheers!

To set a Conditional Breakpoint, right-click the Breakpoint circle and select the Condition option.

You can then define the condition and additionally select an option to filter the condition for evaluating the condition, or for raising the breakpoint when the value of the expression changes.

Choose Debug | Attach to Process….

Select the aspnet_wp.exe from the list of Available Processes and click on Attach

Attach To Process...

Alternatively you can also use ALT + D , P to select the option.

1. jQuery Google Charting (http://www.keith-wood.name/gChart.html)

This plugin allows you to leverage the power and simplicity of Google Reporting. Easy to use with detailed examples, and wide support for chart types makes this an impressive must see.

2. Flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot/)

This plugin is very similar to its prototype counterpart Flotr. Again kudos for good examples and an excellent plugin.

3. Canvas Chart Plugin (http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/creating_accessible_charts_using_canvas_and_jquery/)

Another great plugin, but does have a few rough edges on the cross-browser compatibility due to the issue of canvas tag support in some browsers like IE. Luckily there’s a good plugin to solve this problem, which they have also mentioned on their website.

]]> http://adnanrashid.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/jquery-charts/feed/ 0 adnanrashid jQuery Google Charts http://adnanrashid.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/vcalendar/ http://adnanrashid.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/vcalendar/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:05:49 +0000 adnanrashid http://adnanrashid.wordpress.com/?p=47 ]]> I needed to integrate support for vCalendar in my current project. So i went through the vCalendar spec 1.0 at http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt and wrote this class. Although I have not implemented all the specification features, but this should prove sufficient for the usual requirements. If you have any comments / suggestions , let me know.

using System;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using System.Collections;

/// <summary>

/// Summary description for VCalendar

/// </summary>

public class VCalendar

{

private string _productID;

/// <summary>

/// A unique identifier identifying the originating program

/// </summary>

public string ProductIdentifier

{

get { return _productID; }

set { _productID = value; }

}

private ArrayList _categories;

/// <summary>

/// ArrayList of categories

/// </summary>

public ArrayList Categories

{

get { return _categories; }

set { _categories = value; }

}

private DateTime _createdOn = DateTime.MinValue;

/// <summary>

/// DateTime that the vEvent was created.

/// </summary>

public DateTime CreatedOn

{

get { return _createdOn; }

set { _createdOn = value; }

}

private DateTime _completedOn = DateTime.MinValue;

/// <summary>

/// DateTime the vEvent completed on

/// </summary>

public DateTime CompletedOn

{

get { return _completedOn; }

set { _completedOn = value; }

}

private DateTime _startOn = DateTime.MinValue;

/// <summary>

/// DateTime that the vEvent will start

/// </summary>

public DateTime StartOn

{

get { return _startOn; }

set { _startOn = value; }

}

private DateTime _endOn = DateTime.MinValue;

/// <summary>

/// DateTime that the vEvent will end

/// </summary>

public DateTime EndOn

{

get { return _endOn; }

set { _endOn = value; }

}

private ClassificationType _classification = ClassificationType.PUBLIC;

/// <summary>

/// Defines the access classification for the vEvent entity

/// </summary>

public ClassificationType Classification

{

get { return _classification; }

set { _classification = value; }

}

private int _priority = 0;

/// <summary>

/// 0 = undefined, 1 = High, -1 = Low. Defaults to 0

/// </summary>

public int Priority

{

get { return _priority; }

set { _priority = value; }

}

private string _subject;

/// <summary>

/// Subject of the vEvent

/// </summary>

public string Subject

{

get { return _subject; }

set { _subject = value; }

}

private string _description;

/// <summary>

/// Description of the vEvent

/// </summary>

public string Description

{

get { return _description; }

set { _description = value; }

}

private bool _enableAlarm;

/// <summary>

/// Flag to enable the reminder alarm

/// </summary>

public bool EnableAlarm

{

get { return _enableAlarm; }

set { _enableAlarm = value; }

}

public override string ToString()

{

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.Append(“BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n”);

sb.Append(“VERSION:1.0\n”);

sb.Append(“BEGIN:VEVENT\n”);

// Product Identifier

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_productID))

sb.AppendFormat(“PRODID:{0}\n”, _productID);

// Categories

if (_categories != null && _categories.Count != 0)

{

sb.Append(“CATEGORIES:”);

for (int i = 0; i < _categories.Count; i++)

{

if (i == 0)

sb.Append(_categories[0].ToString());

else

sb.AppendFormat(“;{0}”, _categories[i].ToString());

}

sb.Append(“\n”);

}

// Created On

if (_createdOn != DateTime.MinValue)

sb.AppendFormat(“DCREATED:{0}\n”, _createdOn.ToUniversalTime().ToString(“yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ”));

// Start Date Time

if (_startOn != DateTime.MinValue)

{

sb.AppendFormat(“DTSTART:{0}\n”, _startOn.ToUniversalTime().ToString(“yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ”));

// Display Reminder

if (_enableAlarm)

sb.AppendFormat(“DALARM:{0};PT5M;2;{1}\n”, _startOn.ToUniversalTime().ToString(“yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ”), _subject);

}

// End Date Time

if (_endOn != DateTime.MinValue)

sb.AppendFormat(“DTEND:{0}\n”, _endOn.ToUniversalTime().ToString(“yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ”));

// Completed On

if (_completedOn != DateTime.MinValue)

sb.AppendFormat(“COMPLETED:{0}\n”, _completedOn.ToUniversalTime().ToString(“yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ”));

// Priority

if (_priority != 0)

sb.AppendFormat(“PRIORITY:{0}\n”, _priority);

// Description

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_description))

sb.AppendFormat(“DESCRIPTION:{0}\n”, _description);

// Subject

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_subject))

sb.AppendFormat(“SUMMARY:{0}\n”, _subject);

if (_classification != ClassificationType.PUBLIC)

sb.AppendFormat(“CLASS:{0}\n”, Enum.GetName(typeof(ClassificationType), Classification));

sb.Append(“END:VEVENT\n”);

sb.Append(“END:vCalendar”);

return sb.ToString();

}

public void Generate(string filePath, FileMode mode)

{

FileStream fs = new FileStream(filePath, mode);

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);

using (sw)

{

sw.Write(this.ToString());

}

}

}

public class Attendee

{

private StatusType _status;

public StatusType Status

{

get { return _status; }

set { _status = value; }

}

private AttendeeType _role;

public AttendeeType Role

{

get { return _role; }

set { _role = value; }

}

public string _attendeeName;

public string AttendeeName

{

get { return _attendeeName; }

set { _attendeeName = value; }

}

public override string ToString()

{

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_attendeeName))

{

sb.Append(“ATTENDEE”);

if (_role != AttendeeType.ATTENDEE)

sb.AppendFormat(“;ROLE={0}”, Enum.GetName(typeof(AttendeeType), Role));

if (_status != StatusType.NEEDS_ACTION)

sb.AppendFormat(“;STATUS={0}”, Enum.GetName(typeof(StatusType), Status));

sb.AppendFormat(“:{0}\n”, _attendeeName);

return sb.ToString();

}

else

return string.Empty;

}

}

public enum AttendeeType

{

ATTENDEE,

ORGANIZER,

OWNER,

DELEGATE,

}

public enum StatusType

{

ACCEPTED,

NEEDS_ACTION,

SENT,

TENTATIVE,

CONFIRMED,

DECLINED,

COMPLETED,

DELEGATED

}

public enum RSVPType

{

YES,

NO

}

public enum ExpectType

{

FYI,

REQUIRE,

REQUEST,

IMMEDIATE

}

public enum CategoryType

{

APPOINTMENT,

BUSINESS,

EDUCATION,

HOLIDAY,

MEETING,

MISCELLANEOUS,

PERSONAL,

TRAVEL,

VACATION

}

public enum ClassificationType

{

PUBLIC,

PRIVATE,

CONFIDENTIAL

}