Ajax .Net TabControl In IE: 1 Pixel Gap Between Tab Header and Body

Ok, so this was weird and took a while to track down. After setting some styles for a TabControl, a 1 pixel gap appeared between the tabs in the header of the control and the tab body: Firefox had no issue as usual. After the traditional flurry of setting margins and padding to 0 on every blo... [More]

ASP.Net AJAX ModalPopupExtender: Performing an Asynchronous Postback

The ModalPopupExtender in the AjaxControlToolkit is great for showing a modal dialog in ASP.Net web sites. Recently I needed to have my dialog perform some server-side code when the user hit the 'Ok' button. This would require a postback which I wanted to be asynchronous so it would be sea... [More]

Running ASP.Net AJAX And The Ajax Control Toolkit From Javascript Source In .Net 2.0

I've found myself in need of debugging the javascript for the Ajax toolkit controls (AjaxCotnrolToolkit.dll) and in some cases the ASP.Net AJAX libraries. Here's how to set up an existing ajax-enabled web site to run from source code. This is intended for people using the Ajax framework... [More]

An Incremental TextBox With The Help Of ASP.Net Ajax Controls

In a recent web project I had a requirement for incremental searching - for each character entered into a text box we need to call a search function on the server and update a list displayed in a div in the browser. ASP.Net and a bit of Ajax makes this task quite simple. Calling The Server-Si... [More]

Sys.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: postBackElement

Update: After looking into this a bit further I found the problem doesn't exist in the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 (the same library bundled with ASP.Net 3.5). The same fix I propose here is implemented in that version...go me! Bill Gates must read my blog ;-P. So if you can upgrade, go for tha... [More]
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