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Creating TextBox Helpers Using Ajax in ASP.NET

In this video tutorial Kevin shows you how you can easily add watermark text helper indicators to a TextBox control in ASP.NET without writing any server or client-side code whatsoever.

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Displaying GridView Data Using Ajax in ASP.NET

In this video tutorial Kevin shows you how you can very quickly take advantage of the Ajax Extensions to implement a GridView control inside a partial page update panel container.


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Everything you wanted to know about the Flex 2 DataGrid – part 1

The DataGrid is a pretty useful built-in Flex component. It allows you to display data in a table-like structure of rows and columns. One of the great things about Flex 2 is that the DataGrid comes with features like drag and drop, built in sorting and renderers so you can easily display images and other components in a DataGrid column. You can also add content to the DataGrid from an external source like an XML document or a text file.

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A Customer Ticket System

In this article I will explain how to create a Customer Ticket System using Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL. I’m assuming you have already installed Apache, PHP and MySQL Server on your machine – if you haven’t, use this tutorial where I’m explaining how to install it all: http://www.sebastiansulinski.co.uk/web_design_tutorials/web_server/installing_apache_php_mysql_a.php

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Viewing RSS Feeds in ASP.NET 2.0

In this video tutorial Kevin shows you how you can quickly and easily configure an aspx page to display the contents of an RSS feed from anywhere on the internet in a nice CSS styled format.


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Learn How to Draw: Advanced Composition

In the previous article, Linda began to show why it’s better to draw from life than from a photograph. When you draw from life, you can feel less restricted in adding your feelings or in becoming committed to translating feelings on paper. In this article, she goes deeper to show how you can use symbols to help send messages, and how to draw such intangibles as weight, sound, and scent.

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Using jQuery to Create Rounded Corners Part 2

Welcome to part two of the jQuery rounded-corners tutorial! In part one we created a light-weight, efficient and scalable method for rounding the corners of any number of specified container elements. In this part, we’re going to extend the solution by adding a method for creating rounded borders on elements with rounded corners. This part of the tutorial will work as desired on IE7 and FireFox, but sadly, IE6 simply cannot handle it and the design breaks completely in this browser.

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Learn How to Draw: Composition

In this article, Linda shows how variety in form and in texture provides your drawings with more interest. She also emphasizes how little texture you really need to draw when you incorporate depth into your pieces. Finally, you’ll learn how to incorporate some ‘style’ into your drawings, or learn how your perception of objects is individual and yours alone.

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Creating a Simple Data-Driven GridView in ASP.NET

In this video tutorial Kevin shows you just how easy it is to create a simple web application that is capable of reading data from a custom created SQL database and present that data in a GridView control.


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Flex and PHP: Building a Message Board – part 2

Welcome to part 2 of this series of two articles on building a simple message board application with Flex. The application uses PHP with a MySQL database. It is a very simple application because the aim is to show you how to use PHP and Flex together rather than how to create a fully functional commercial application.

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Creating a GridView with associated DetailsView in ASP.NET

In this video tutorial Kevin shows you how to implement an application that connects to the sample Northwind SQL database and displays data from a pre-defined view. The sample GridView will let you sort by any column both ascending and descending, you can select a row and view the corresponding product information in the DetailsView control, and you can also page through the records.




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Using jQuery to Create Rounded Corners

These days, there are plenty of ways to add a variety of different rounded-corner effects to various content-containing boxes, usually <div> elements. Most use a combination of one or more images, some CSS and some JavaScript in varying amounts to achieve the desired effect, and each method has its pros and cons. One of the problems with many of the rounded-corner solutions, certainly those that rely heavily on images, is that they only allow you to create a specific style of box. So you can make as many boxes with rounded corners that you want, as long as they are all the same colour, have visually the same style, and all sit on the same coloured background. Read More
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