Travis J. Gosselin Distinguished Engineer, Architect & Speaker

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Table sorting is a very common polishing feature that you’ll see for most tabular data. In ASP.NET you get functionality with this out of the box with a control like a GridView, but requires a full postback just to sort...

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In a number of situations, passing JSON objects between server side and client is a dream come true for developers. It makes integration between the two worlds quite nice. However, sometimes those JSON objects can be quite large in a...

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Web.config inheritance can be a real pain in some circumstances. Essentially, the problem(s) that can occur are when you are hosting an application in the root of a website, and decided to add an application to subdirectory. In IIS you...

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Client rich features often require some dabbling across a couple of different technologies in order to produce your desired product. JavaScript alongside some type of server technology is usually the course of action. My recent work involved the use of...

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Awhile back I had a request to enable the inclusion of back button support into an AJAX web application that relied very heavily on the use of an update panel, including drill down levels, etc. My quest to solve this...

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What in the world is a System.BadImageFormatException??? I didn't know either. And it drove me insane because I could not seem to figure out what was causing this error only when I deploy to a UAT site. It worked fine...

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So I finally took the plunge and decided to write my first Microsoft Certification Exam. With some nudges from some people to do it...and knowing inside I should have done it last year at this time...I sucked it up and...

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Unfortunately deploying your Dundas Charts solution to an IIS7 environment is slightly different than IIS6, mainly due to the new Integrated Mode which is turned on by default in IIS7. To use your chart handler in IIS7 you'll need to either...

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ASP.NET AJAX is great. I have fell in love with it since I first used it. It ease of use and increased user experienced is a great trade-off. But down to the point... It can be quite annoying for a...

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In often cases, I don't usually pay attention to the culture. This has come back to bite me time after time :) The problem exists when your done the dev phase and moving your web application to another machine, that...