Coding Day

It has been more than a year since Atlas is out. I remember playing with the first hands-on-labs for doing a search query. I also really liked the Ajax Control Toolkit since the first day, still using two controls in a project. Now that baby is out of CTP, BETA and ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is released. A lot has changed since it’s first release. The objects in javascript library, the method names, object names and the product name have changed. As a result, we have 2 separate products. ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 (Client and Server), ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit . There is one more product which is ASP.NET AJAX Futures January CTP. This is the additional javascript library to provide additional functionality.

Interestingly, it has been shipped with source code.  There is no escape for the client source code release but they also include the server side controls which is good. Although we don’t have the server side controls code, Scott Guthrie announced the server side controls source code will  be released shortly. Client side is released with Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) and server side with Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).  The client side is more flexible in terms of license to extend the library.  

Thanks to the team…

I posted an article to The Code Project for an image control. The basic idea for developing that is to write e-mail addresses as images using various formatting options on web applications.

Labels are generated as images instead of text, to have more privacy without any configurations and without HttpHandlers

ImageLabel is an ASP.NET web control for generating labels as images. You might want to do that for providing security for e-mail crawlers or to disallow copy paste of the text. Many similar controls have implemented as HttpHandlers, so you need more configuration to make them work. However this control does not need any configuration. You just need to use just like any other asp.net control like Label. Almost all of the label formatting options are included, like font size, backcolor, forecolor. Although this is not implemented as a CAPTCHA control, that functionality can easily added to image generation method.

ImageLabel Control at CodeProject

I think it is a good way to understand page and control life cycle using that control, if you are wondered about them. Beside that, if you like the article you can vote for me if you want to

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