Default focus and default button in asp.net

Sometimes ago a friend ask me how to put default focus and default button in ASP.NET. He was not knowing that there is property for that in form tag in asp.net. I thought it will be good idea to write a blog post about that.So those who are not aware of this feature can get an idea for that.

In some cases we need to have default button and default focus. For example take a example of a shopping cart registration form. Where you need to have default focus into the first textbox if you contain list of textboxes over there. Same way you can have more then one button on asp.net forms for example save and cancel so once user press enter which button should be pressed. On above both scenario this Default button and default features can come very handy.

From asp.net 2.0, The form tag has this two properties DefaultButton and DefaultFoucs where you can set the Id of control that you need as default button and same way you need to put Id of a control for default focus.

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How to consume ASP.NET WebAPI from jQuery

Before some months Microsoft has launched WebAPI framework for building and consuming HTTP services. This WebAPI can be called from anything like from mobile sites to JavaScript anything. I thought it will be a good idea to call a WebAPI from jQuery.

In this post I am going to explain how to consume ASP.NET WebAPI from jQuery.

Creating a basic WebAPI:

To create a web API you need to install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 and then you create a new project for MVC .



Now once you click Ok. It will ask for type of project. You want to create you need to select Web API there.

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Dependency graph in visual studio 2012- Understand your code better.

Today I came across a new feature of visual studio 2012 called Dependency Graph in visual studio 2012. I thought it will be good Idea to write a blog post about this.

I have written list of visual studio 2012 features post. You can find this at my Visual Studio 2012 page.

What is Dependency Graph?

Dependency graph help you visualize how your code is written and organized and provide view on code dependencies. This is very useful when you are working with a code that you have not written. With the dependency graph you can easily get an idea of code written by others in a application.

How to create Dependency Graph:

You can easily create dependency graph via architecture menu –>Generate Dependency graph. You will also presented to two options like below.

1. For Solution
2. For Include file.

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