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In the last couple of days, I have been playing with the Atlas Control Toolkit. The documentation on creating a new extender is quite good, so I was up and running rather quickly. Just wanted to share the code and would love to get feedback.
Continue reading "TextBoxMask: An Extender for the Atlas Control Toolkit"

I have posted similar stories before, but this new entry on thedailywtf.com just beats them all. Oh. My. God.

Scott Guthrie already showed this on the Microsoft Technology Summit I attended last month, but now the final version has finally been released. Scott writes:

Tired of having <table> elements rendered by the built-in ASP.NET server controls and wishing you could use a pure CSS solution instead? Read on...
Today we published the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit for ASP.NET.
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A control adapter allows you to plug-into any ASP.NET server control and override, modify and/or tweak the rendering output logic of that control.

So this allows you to patch some ASP.NET web controls to, for instance, use a CSS layout instead of a table layout. There are some controls that come to mind here ... There is documentation and there a samples, so do have a look!