January
25
2006
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 10:57 am in the Web Development category.
Today I’m working with the Site Navigation controls offered by ASPnet 2.0. The SiteMapPath control makes it easy to insert breadcrumbs navigation into pages. One hurdle that I discovered in learning to use the control though is the need to have a Web.sitemap file defined and I’ve found no easy way to generate that from existing pages yet. Once I overcame that though, the control works pretty easily.
My next challenge is figuring out how to dynamically modify the breadcrumbs for dynamic pages which is where this link, How to: Programmatically Modify Site-Map Nodes in Memory comes in.
Tags: asp.net
January
18
2006
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 11:10 am in the Web Development category.
I’m starting to be assimilated into a Microsoft workflow now that we’ve adopted Visual Studio 2005 as our development tool. Currently I’m struggling with the master page (ASP.NET Master Pages Overview) functionality to create templates for use in our website. I’m already discovering pros and cons.
One improvement I’ve noticed in Visual Studio is that it no longer reformats the HTML in the Design View. I’m a hand-coder for the most part so I can be confident that the code I plug in is what gets rendered.
One strike that I haven’t found a workaround for yet is that if I update a Master Page - in this case add an additional Content Area - it doesn’t update existing pages based on that Master.
I also haven’t figured out if you can add configurable Content areas -for scripts or page styles - in the section of the page.
Tags: asp.net
January
6
2006
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 11:58 am in the Web Development category.
I’m looking into utilizing iframes (Using inline frames (iframe elements) to embed documents into HTML documents) to embed PDFs into a web page for an application on our website.
Tags: HTML
