Today, I only have a couple of links. The first is a tip: if you do object caching in ASP, make sure that asynchronous operations are turned on. You can do that by putting Asynch=”true” in the @Page directive on your .aspx page. This comes from the indispensable Scott Guthrie’s blog.
On one of my projects, we’re using the Smum County Modal Form. It’s a pretty good modal box if you’re into that sort of thing. I don’t think that it’s very good practice, but then again, I’m not the application architect.
Finally, there was a problem which vexed us today. One developer wanted to get the selected value of an ASP DropDownList in JavaScript. Using this helpful page, which describes normal HTML/JavaScript, I was able to write the JavaScript to do it. Here’s a quick version the way we did things (forgive me for the crudity of using Response.Write!):
elly = document.getElementById("<% Response.Write(ddlWhateverIAM.ClientID) %>")
selected_text = elly.options[elly.selectedIndex].text;
//do whatever you need to do with the text value
