JavaScript

I have to use webcam images in one of applications I build and when playing with different components I found free and easy to use Flash and jQuery based webcam component called jQuery webcam plugin. In this posting I will show you how to use jQuery webcam plugin with ASP.NET MVC application to save captured image to server hard disc.

It has been quite here for some month as I was very busy on some critical projects and I also got used to be a father to one wonderful baby. Now it’s time to get back to community stuff and this time I will dig to fancy JavaScript library called Knockout. This was one of interesting journeys I have had together with fellow ASP.NET MVP Hajan Selmani.

jQuery UI Datepicker is popular dropdown calendar component. It is powerful, easy to use and one of my favorites for sure. Sometimes we need more than just picking dates. In one of my projects I needed something similar but instead of just dates I had dates and times. As I’m not strong on jQuery I looked for ready made component to get this functionality and then how I found Timepicker extension for jQuery UI Datepciker. Here’s how it looks and how to use it.

Selecting things from dialogs and data represented as trees are very common things we see in business applications. In this posting I will show you how to use ASP.NET TreeView control and jQuery UI dialog component to build picker dialog that hosts tree data.

I played with Bing Maps AJAX-based API and found it to be very easy to use after you know basic objects and you are able to use them. In this posting I will show you simple example about how to add pushpins to map and how to show coordinates of pushpins to users.

I was converting the example code of my Windows Azure session to Visual Studio 2010 solution called MVC Time Planner when I discovered some date and time offset issues in my JavaScript code. In this posting I will show you some useful tricks you can use to convert JavaScript dates and times to timestamps.

I needed to add context menus to some tables of my intranet application. After trying some components I found one that does everything I need and has no overhead. In this posting I will show you how to use jQuery context menu plug-in and how to attach it to tables.

I found very good jQuery component called FullCalendar. My special favorites are agenda views because they make this calendar really useful in business applications. In this posting I will show you how to use FullCalendar with ASP.NET MVC.

In one of my sample projects I wrote simple calendar solution. Users can select dates from calendar and see what events they have on selected days. I used jQueryUI DatePicker and FullCalendar components. In this posting I will show you how to link them together.

Cropping images in ASP.NET is easy task to do if you use right tools. In this posting I will introduce how to crop images using Jcrop and System.Drawing namespace classes. What we are building is simple and user-friendly image cropping interface that also demonstrates some simple features of Jcrop. Believe me, your users will love it!