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The blog of Gergely Orosz on IT related topics: web, software design, .NET, PHP and the rest. Follow me @gergelyorosz on Twitter.

Recently I wanted to implement a very simple file upload component in Silverlight that uploads a single file and if possible shows upload progress. Having done some search I’ve found numerous examples but all of them seemed too complex for the simple task of uploading a file so I implemented a really lightweight solution. The [...]

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When working with images I sooner or later usually run into the problem of creating thumbnails. Resampling images is not really difficult in the major programming languages however I have not found built-in support for caclulating thumbnail dimensions neither in .NET nor in PHP. And it seems that this made me re-invent the wheel over [...]

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Building an AJAX Tree control

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Recently I’ve been in need to create use a tree control that is capable of doing the following:
- Displays tree items
- Branches can be opened to see children
- The tree is dynamically built to minimize server load
I was sure that there are plenty of solutions out there that I could use. After doing some search [...]

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