Posts by Dan:
Enabling or disabling a validator control in javascript
Recently I had to have a form that had a requiredfieldvalidator that was supposed to validate only on certain conditions. I did not want the validator to validate its control (textbox B) unless textbox A had a value in it. I decided the best way to do this was to capture the keyup event of textbox A and if there was a value in the textbox, to turn the validator for textbox B on. To do that via javascript, you have to utilize the asp.net built in javascript function ValidatorEnable.
<script type="text/javascript"> var makeEnabled = true; var validatorControl = document.getElementById('<%= RequiredFieldValidator1.ClientID %>'); ValidatorEnable(validatorControl, makeEnabled); </script>
Budapest Table Sorting Plugin
Budapest is a jQuery plugin that allows for simple table sorting. It allows the developer to have full control over the sorting. Basic usage: $("table").budapest(); Advanced usage: $("table").budapest({ headers: { 0: { sortable: true}, 1: { sortable: true}, 2: { sortable: true} }, sortIndex: 2, sortDirection: "asc", onSort: function(index, val1, val2, direction){ //provide your own [...]
Create an ical file in ASP.NET MVC
I recently had to write some code that generates an ical file and sends it to the browser. I decided to utilize the awesomeness that is asp.net mvc and try it like that. Following the information I got from reading Stephen Walther’s blog entry on using MVC to generate files to download, I started by [...]

