Monday, February 09, 2009

ASP.NET Best Practices for High Performance Applications

Hi All,

I found some great articles on Best pracites and improving the performance of ASP.NET application. Check out these great articles.

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

SubmitDisabledControls - A New Property in ASP.NET 2.0

In one of my previous post, I blogged about ReadOnly and Enabled property of TextBox, One of the issues with disabled controls is that if controls are marked disabled on the client-side, the values are not posted back and therefore any changes are lost from the previous visit. 

ASP.NET 2.0 add a new property “submitdisabledcontrols ” to HTMLForm Class, that when set to true will submit the disabled controls to the server also.

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ReadOnly and Enabled property of TextBox

One of thing about textbox that confuses me is the Enabled and ReadOnly Property. Both the property makes the text content non editable but there are couple of differences in the way they work.  Here they are:-

Difference No. 1

When we use Enabled Property to false, Textbox’s text is grayed out and we cannot focus on the control and when we use ReadOnly property to true then you will see that the textbox’s content is not grayed out but the content is non editable. 

Difference No. 2

When Enabled = “false” is used, control renders the HTML element as disabled=”disabled” and in case of ReadOnly=”true” then the HTML element is readonly=”readonly”.

I have read on some blogs that disabled controls values are not sent back to the server on postback but that’s not true. If you have disabled any control on client side then only its value will not be sent back to the server. Disabling on client side means either through JavaScript or by adding attributes to the control like

txt.Attributes.Add(”disabled”, “disabled”);

Enjoy…

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