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Using HTML5 Drag and Drop in ASP.NET |
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Drag and drop operations are common in desktop applications. Modern web applications also try to harness the ease and power of drag and drop operations to provide enhanced user experience. Web developers often resorted to JavaScript based libraries or custom techniques for enabling drag and drop behavior in their applications. Luckily, HTML5 comes with an inbuilt support for drag and drop. Using drag and drop features, you can drag an HTML element and drop it onto another. In the process you can also pass data from the source element to the target element. Integrating drag and drop with server side processing allows you to provide rich user experience. This article illustrates how HTML5 drag and drop features can be used in an ASP.NET website. |
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Posted On : 06 Mar 2012 |
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Using HTML5 Web Storage in ASP.NET |
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Most of the websites developed today deal with data in one or the other form. It follows that application data needs some storage mechanism. As far as server is concerned we have sophisticated storage mechanisms such as an RDBMS. However, storing data on the client side can be tricky. Traditionally developers used Cookies to persist data on the client side but with many limitations. To help developers get rid of these limitations and provide a streamlined data storage mechanism HTML5 has introduced what is called as Web Storage. This article explores what Web Storage is, its flavors and using Web Storage in ASP.NET websites. |
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Posted On : 25 Jan 2012 |
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HTML5 Form features you should know |
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In the past few articles I discussed HTML5 features that every ASP.NET developer should be aware of. In this article I will focus on HTML Forms and discuss some enhancements that make your life easy. Merely using various input types is just one part of the story. You should also know HTML5 features that are applicable to the form as a whole. This article illustrates some such features. All the examples use Chrome as a browser but many can be tested in Safari, Opera and others. |
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Posted On : 09 Dec 2011 |
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Introduction to HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers |
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More and more web applications are harnessing the power of client side features of a browser. To that end HTML5 has many features to offer web developers. HTML markup, JavaScript and CSS have become more powerful and flexible than ever before. ASP.NET Developers must be well-versed with HTML5 features because all of the leading browsers are aggressively supporting them and newer web applications are bound to rely heavily on them. This article is intended to give you an overview of some key features of HTML5 from a developer's perspective. We won't go into too much detail of new HTML tags, CSS3 and such "markup" level features, instead we will focus on features more appealing to web developers. |
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Posted On : 03 Nov 2011 |
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Working with HTML5 Canvas |
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One of the reasons for the popularity of the web is the graphical user interface offered to the end users. Images, animations, fonts and other interactive effects make a website appealing from an end user's perspective. However, one limitation that website developers often encounter is drawing graphics in the browser. As a solution, developers often resort to Flash or Silverlight based plug-ins or generate graphics on the fly at server side and then send it to the client. HTML5 does a great job in client side graphic rendering by offering what is known as canvas. The actual drawing can be carried out using JavaScript code and certain new graphic objects. Understanding HTML5 canvas and associated JavaScript objects is important for any ASP.NET developer and this article teaches you just that. |
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Posted On : 25 Oct 2011 |
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Using HTML5 input types in ASP.NET |
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HTML5 introduced several new input types for <INPUT> element. These new input types include number, range, email, url, color, date, datetime and a few more. Though these types are not fully supported by all desktop browsers any ASP.NET developer should know them because newer browser versions will definitely support them. In this article you will learn the basics of using the new input types. More importantly you will also learn to use them with ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. |
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Posted On : 24 Oct 2011 |
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