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Want a better Menu adapter? Send me your menus!

As part of the rewrite of the ASP.Net Control Adapters (see the Google project at http://code.google.com/p/aspnetcontroladapters), I started working on a new Menu adapter. It’s got a long way to go — and you can help me get there!
The best way to engineer proper adapted menu markup is to visualize how the non-adapted Menu generates [...]

Posted 14 November 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

New CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList control adapters

I recently implemented a new control adapter for the CheckBoxList control, with lots of available functionality, as the first component in the (relatively new) ASP.Net Control Adapters open source project. It’s not complete, but it is definitiely functional.
Since the RadioButtonList control is very similar, I decided to implement it. After five minutes (mostly spent copy/pasting [...]

Posted 24 October 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Announcing the ASP.Net Control Adapters, a new open source project

Over the past few weeks, I started doing some experimentation with a different approach to changing the rendering of default ASP.Net controls. For a few years, I (and many others) have used the CSSFriendly project for this. That project does some nice things, but has many shortcomings.
I hemmed and hawed about this a bit (see [...]

Posted 04 October 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (1)