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Welcome to part 2 of the three part case study on building a Flex 2 application. In part 1, we started to build our real estate listings application. We created the interface for the application and the custom class that loaded the external XML document. In part 2, we'll populate the Repeater control in the interface to show a list of all properties from the XML document.
Read MoreWelcome to part two. In the first part we lookedatadding a new map instance image, adding markers and smart windows and finally, we looked at allowing visitors to add a new marker using an address. It worked well, the new marker was added, but there is still a lot we can do to improve it. The biggest problem is that if the visitor sets a new marker that is further away than the bounds of the current map image, the new marker won't be visible without dragging the map around. Luckily there are a few properties that we can play with to fix this.
Read MoreYahoo! are renowned for their developer focused offerings that bring easy and quick web site development. They provide some of the best free tools around that are created by web designers for web designers including the Yahoo! User Interface toolkit (YUI), the Pattern Design Library, the Yahoo! Widget Engine/SDK and a wide range of easy to use APIs.
Read MoreIn this tutorial, I want to look at how you can create communication between ActionScript in a Flex application and JavaScript in a Web page. The ExternalInterface or External API in ActionScript 3.0 is what makes it all possible!
Read MoreLinda will walk you through the new Google Analytics (GA) interface over the next few weeks to show you how to utilize all the nooks and crannies within this site. If you’re a GA devotee or an SEO expert, you might find this information a bit below your needs. But, if analytics is new to you, or if you’d prefer to learn how to decipher these detailed stats rather than pay someone to do it for you, then you might be interested in what these articles will offer.
Read MoreCreating even a simple online presentations can be challenging and frustrating, especially if you aren’t a web design “guru”. If Flash is not your cup of tea and Power Point is out of question you may want to consider Dreamweaver CS3 with its new “coolest toy” –Spry.
In this article we will work with two Spry features: Spry widgets (Spry Tabbed Panels to be more specific) and Spry Effects to build a simple online presentation. We will use the first one to create the presentation interface and then, after adding some content, we will take advantage of Spry Effects to add some “sizzle” to each “slide”.
Read MoreWelcome to the second and final part of this two part series regarding the new ASP.NET 2.0 MultiView and View controls available in the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox. During MultiView Control in ASP.NET 2.0 Part 1 we looked at the MultiView and View controls and their documented uses. We created a sample application with 3 themes and applied Skin files to allow our View controls to have a dynamic display without applying formatting to our form controls at all.
During this second part of the series we will implement the code required to tie all the pieces together. The code required will be implemented in a code-beside file for our Default.aspx page that we created during MultiView Control in ASP.NET 2.0 Part 1.
Read MoreLinda reviewed some of the Webby Award winners in 2006 and found that they lacked substance in the accessibility area – even the ones that were chosen for superb functionality. One year later, Linda found that accessibility and usability is prevalent among some winners, a factor that may have been influenced by the Webby Awards’ new standards and Website. But, is this competition worth entering, even with this year’s improvements?
Read MoreSo far in this series of articles, we've spent a lot of time looking at the different things you can do with Flex 2. We've looked at some of the built-in components you can use to create Flex applications. We've also created custom components and ActionScript classes.
In the next three articles, I want to take you through a case study where you can put together what you've learned so far to create a complete Flex application. We'll use an external XML document to power the application which will show us real estate listings. We'll see a summary of all listings and we'll be able to click to find out more about each listing. The case study will give you good insight into how you might approach building a complete application.
Read MoreASP.NET 2.0 has brought a plethora of new user interface controls to developers. Most have been added to facilitate large amounts of duplicate coding that was required in previous versions of .NET. By expanding the ASP.NET toolbox to include several new controls that can accommodate a vast set of commonly used interface design patterns a developer can focus more on the user experience instead of custom writing their own user controls.
One of these new controls is the MultiView control. The premise behind this control is something that has been available to desktop application developers for quite some time. The idea being, to enable multiple views of control, layered on top of each other, and dynamically displayed at run-time.
Read MoreIn part two of this series we ended up with having a small box residing at the side of the screen into which search terms could be entered. If results were found, we displayed another small box below the original box that contained links to the pages in which the search term was found. While this was an adequate display of the results, that's all it was – adequate. We can improve the functionality and usability of the search engine by changing it so that the results are displayed on a page of their own. This article will focus on the steps required in order to achieve this.
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