Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
4 min read ASP.NET

The JavaScript confirm() function is simple to implement on a Button control, but you can only use it for one particular purpose and that is to confirm a postback. Let’s look at an example of this simplicity first and...

2 min read ASP.NET

In highly interactive websites and intranet sites, you probably want to let the users know what’s going on when they delete, save, export etc. on the site. Those kinds of status messages are widely used and are often...

2 min read Client-side

In the good name of internet security, Microsoft added a feature in Internet Explorer that disables automatic activation of objects. All objects in an HTML <object> tag is affected and that includes Java applets and...

4 min read Client-side , ASP.NET

In light of the rising popularity of AJAX during the last couple of years, Microsoft wanted to include the feature natively into ASP.NET’s object model. They came up with an elegant solution for the feature in ASP.NET...

3 min read Server-side

There are some features in the System.Data.DataTable class that a lot of developers don’t utilize. I base that statement on different code samples I’ve seen on blogs and article bases during the last couple of years...

2 min read Server-side

For some reason, Microsoft didn’t add a Week property to the DateTime class. I never could figure out why. Instead they gave us the System.Globalization namespace, filled with date related functionality like the...

1 min read General

Traceworks is looking for a new ASP.NET front-end developer : "You are enthusiastic about new technology and know all about what’s going on the in the world of online development, on demand solutions, etc. At night you...

3 min read ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a double sided discipline that demands skills and understanding of two very different worlds: the web as a platform and .NET development. The problem is that it is hard to find an ASP.NET developer that is...

2 min read Reviews

For a lot of good reasons I’m sure, Dell just launched their new blog one2one in order to communicate directly with their customers. It even has video entries or vlogs, which I think is great and very informative as...

2 min read ASP.NET

I work a lot with httphandlers (.ashx) in ASP.NET – mostly to generate dynamic XML files for Macromedia/Adobe Flash consumption. It works great and the performance is great in httphandlers compared to webforms, but there...