| ASP2Controls_01 - Using Linkbutton, ImageButton and Button within Templated Controls |
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This video starts with a brief overview of the basic properties of each of the button controls, then begins to look at a more advanced use of the button controls within templated controls like the gridview control, the multiview control, wizard control, etc. which involves setting the CommandName and possibly the CommandArgument properties of the respective button controls.
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| ASP2Controls_02 - Using the Calendar Control |
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The calendar control allows you to select a date or range of dates within your application. The video starts with an overview of the most basic properties for selection and styling. Moving to a more advanced scenario we look at the SelectionMode property, handling the DayRender event to customize the appearance of individual calendar cells, selecting discontiguous dates or date ranges and how to respond to date cell click events.
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| ASP2Controls_03 - When to use the Label Control versus the Literal Control |
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As the title indicates, we talk about the differences between the Label and the Literal and what the effect of each of these is to your rendered HTML output. We also look at the Mode property of the Literal control to HTML Encode the string of text to be displayed.
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| ASP2Controls_04 - Working with Single and Multiple Selection Lists |
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This video begins by looking at single selection controls such as the DropDownList, the ComboBox, the RadioButtonList, the ListBox and the DataList controls. We first look at the similarities and differences of each of these -- both in terms of purpose and appearance as well as properties and methods. Here we spend time examining templated controls -- how they work, and how a template can host other controls and capture events. Next we look at multiple selection controls such as the ListBox and CheckBoxList controls.
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| ASP2Controls_05 - Using the AdRotator Control |
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The AdRotator control can serve up a random graphic based on a defined set of graphics in an XML file. At the beginning of the video we look at the basics, then quickly look more closely into the schema of the XML file, how to employ keyword filtering, how to display additional data from the XML file on the web page, how to use a SQLDAtaSource instead of an XML file, and finally how to create a simple click-tracking system featuring the AdRotator.
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| ASP2Controls_06 - Using the FileUpload Control |
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This video starts with a simple upload example (which requires more than just configuring a few properties on the control itself ... it requires quite a bit of code to receive and save the individual file bits coming down the wire), and then adds a bit of fun to the mix with examples of how to upload multiple files, saving a file to a database, and processing a file in memory before saving it to disk (creating a thumbnail of an image file). This video is highly recommended.
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| ASP2Controls_07 - Controlling Content Display with the Multiview and View Controls |
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The MultiView control acts as a container for View controls and ensures that only one view is active at a time and provides a mechanism for switching which view is active. This video begins with demonstrating several methods of switching between views with the ActiveViewIndex property, responding to events of child controls in the View (such as the special CommandName and CommandArgument properties), demonstrates a simple video game catalog Master/Detail example with the MultiView passing the selected game's id from the master view to the detail view through a clever databinding strategy.
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| ASP2Controls_08 - Using the XML Control for Server-Side Transformations |
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The Xml control is very useful for performing server side xsl transformations. The video starts with a simple example of its use, ofcusing on the DocumentSource and TransformSource properties to set your XML document and XSL document respectively. Our example transforms an RSS file into a simple HTML page.
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| ASP2Controls_09 - Using the Image and ImageMap Controls |
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The Image control allows you to dynamically display images on your web pages. This video starts with a simple case highlighting the most frequently used properties. Next we look at the ImageMap control which allows you to dynamically create hot spots on your images. We look at the HotSpotMode property and the HotSpot collection editor. After we disperse with the basics, we look at how to databind an image control, how to use the image control with ASP.NET 2.0 Themes and finally look at the different types of hot spots you can create and configure and how to respond to click events on the ImageMap.
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| ASP2Controls_10 - Collecting Data Step-By-Step with the Wizard Control |
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The Wizard control provides an easy mechanism to implement a step-by-step navigation scheme. One advantage to the Wizard control is that you don't have to worry about how to manage state between the pages, how to pass data between the pages, etc. This video demonstrates these concepts and how to enable and turn off the various features of the Wizard via a simple email newsletter subscription form. We demonstrate the use of the WizardStep Collection Editor and the various Step properties.
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