Monthly Archives: January 2010

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Simple popups or hover overs

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Many a time you use the <a href’#’ title=’display a message’ /> to display a message when you want some hover over text to display additional information, which is fine, but what if you want to display some more fancy text, lets say in HTML you are stuck.

So I went on the search to find something that was easy to implement.

I came across a number of different popups

Each having good coverage, but I ended up using overLIB mainly as Nadun at work found it very easy to use.

Here is how I have implement the library

I have implemented a simple jQuery version of the library, I am sure you could extend it to do a lot more, I always say KIS (Keep It Simple)
Add a tag class of overlib and popup tag which holds the popup information, simple, e.g.
<a href=”#” class=”overlib” popup=”Hello World”>Basic popup</a>
If you want to display HTML content in the popup, just added it to the popup tag
<a href=”#” class=”overlib” popup=”<b>Bold</b> can be displayed too”>HTML content</a>
I have also include in my sample the overlib_pagedefaults which sets a few things up for overLIB, but this is not required if you don’t want to use it.
I have attached a fully working sample to make life easier.

overLib.zip (71.66 kb)

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How do you retrieving the XmlEnumAttribute values for an Enum

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When you are playing with Web Services you quite often find information held in an Attribute, but how do you get it out?

e.g.

public enum Classification {

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute(“Test drive demonstrator”)]
        Testdrivedemonstrator,

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute(“Showroom vehicle”)]
        Showroomvehicle,

 

By using reflection you can gain access to the attribute, here is how:

Type enumType = typeof(velocityUom);

foreach (FieldInfo fi in enumType.GetFields())

{

object[] attrs = fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(XmlEnumAttribute), false);

if (attrs.Length > 0)

{

Console.WriteLine(((XmlEnumAttribute)attrs[0]).Name);

}

}

 

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Last Years Toys

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It’s a new year and it’s must be time for me to go over what toys I have played with in 2009.

  • Balsamiq Mockups must be the best application and tool that I have come across this year, after giving a talk to DotNetDevNet on the application I found that many other developers went ahead and bought the application too.
  • NotePad+, which is an extended version of the very basic default NotePad that comes with Windows.  Just replace your NotePad with this one and off you go.
  • SysInternals Process Explorer I have used every day, mainly due to the fact that Windows does not handle resources and memory that well, so you have to have a tool to sort it out for you when things go wrong.
  • GhostDoc is an internal tool for use with Visual Studio and cuts down the amount of time required for documentation, and does it right all the time.
  • The biggest and most impressive toy last year has to be the purchase of a MacBook, it’s so much easier than Windows 7, XP or Vista, and things just work as they should do, well designed and well throughout, this gets 10 out of 10 for last years toys.
I’m sure I’ve used some other toys last year, but these are the ones that I remember the most.