ASP.NET Multiple Selection DropDownList with AJAX HoverMenuExtender

This web user control comprises the ASP.NET AJAX HoverMenuExtender, JavaScript, StyleSheet, and CheckBoxListExCtrl. The final product works with or without a MasterPage and you can drag and drop more than one instance of the control on to the page.

Uncomon Techniques For Growing Effective Technical Managers

This article utilizes real project scenarios to demonstrate a set of techniques that support common patterns employed by many effective technical managers across a range of organizations. Planning, status, metrics, and communication (with task performers and senior management) are addressed. If you are a lead engineer, technical manager, or project manager in a growing organization [...]

ASP.NET Web Requests In Detail

The purpose of this document is to provide a very thorough explanation of what happens during an HTTP request to an ASP.NET page being served up through IIS. It starts out with the basics but then dives in to the gory details, more detail than is probably needed for basic web page development. However a [...]

Building Web Apps without Web Forms

I have been a professional developer for about 15 years now and a hobbyist for at least 10 years before that. Like most of my generation, I started out on 8-bit machines and then moved on to the PC platform. Working my way up through machines of increasing complexity, I wrote apps that did everything [...]