The following is a quote from Chapter 1. "Currently the contacts functionality is fairly simple, with such things as linking events with contacts and automatically e-mailing contacts to remind them of an event".

Unless I am missing something, I don't see how from the project design or from the code that contacts are linked to events or that email automatically gets sent to contacts to remind them of an event. Can you clarify this for me?

I was also wondering why when I run some of the code that a few of the buttons are very wide when they are displayed. (ie. Save Entry and Save Event buttons).

Thanks

Hi there,

I didn't write that chapter, so I can only guess, but could it be a simple typo? Maybe it was meant to read as "is fairly simple, without such things as linking events".

The size of the buttons is an IE thing. They look fine in Firefox. It's easy to make them work in all browsers by changing left to margin-left:

<asp:Button ID="saveDiaryEntryButton" runat="server" Style="z-index: 105;
margin-left: 530px; position: absolute; top: 280px" Text="Save Entry"
TabIndex="3"
/>

The page uses absolute positioning for layout / design. If you want, you could change it to a fluid design and use divs or tables to position stuff like buttons.

Hope this helps,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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First I would like to say that I appreciate the response. I bought this book because I read and really liked your series on building layered web applications (http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=416).

The difference between the with and without statements is a big one. So just to clarify, Am I correct that the chapter 1 project does not link events and contacts (I have driven myself crazy trying to see how they were linked)?

Thanks

Like I said, I didn't write that chapter so I can only guess. However, from looking at the application's source, it looks your assumptions are right.

You may want to file an errata here: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...ew_errata.html

That way, the problem gets reported with Wrox and the author may provide an answer to your question.

Cheers,

Imar
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Thank you very much for getting back to me. I will file an errata report. One last thing if you don't mind. In your post to me you mentioned:

"The page uses absolute positioning for layout / design. If you want, you could change it to a fluid design and use divs or tables to position stuff like buttons."

I am just curious as to which you prefer, absolute positioning or using fluid design with divs and/or tables?

Thanks again.

The latter. While absolute positioning has some benefits (quick to develop, more Windows application-like development experience, especially when targeting a single browser like IE in an Intranet) I often find that flow designs are much easier to maintain, and easier to make cross browser. They also tend to need less code, as it's easier to abstract code for layout and positioning to separate CSS files.

One of the goals of the book is to show you different ways of accomplishing things. You should pick the methodology you like best. Later chapters use different layout techniques, so can choose the one you feel most comfortable with.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB, ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Dreamweaver MX 2004
Want to be my colleague? Then check out this post.

Thanks I appreciate all your help.