Mads Kristensen published his Web Standards Update for Visual Studio yesterday which gives it full HTML 5 support (see image below). The update only works with SP1 versions of Visual Studio (full version and express) and can be downloaded here. This update gives intellisense support for HTML 5 pages, CSS 3, and additions to JavaScript [...]

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Validation controls in ASP.NET make it very easy to check data in forms if any information has been filled or if it meets certain criteria. It saves a great deal of time in hand coding JavaScript validation. Unfortunately, validation controls don’t work with the CheckBox or CheckBoxList controls. Your form may need to determine if [...]

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The Accordion in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a very useful tool which creates collapsible panels that open like an accordion when you click on the header. This is a good way to put content on a web page without taking up a lot of space on the page. The problem with this control [...]

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A useful feature for Joomla would be a way to store a URL for an article that only links to another site. You would have to manually create the link within a Joomla article which involves quite a bit of steps to do. I would rather create the title, add the URL, write a brief [...]

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Its a real challenge providing a video on your web site that can be viewed on any device accessing it, i.e. desktop computer, smart phone, PDA, or tablet. HTML5 is gaining ground against Flash, but not all devices will support this format and may only have one type of video player installed. A computer that [...]

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