eli geske http://eligeske.com Good information for the geeky kind. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WAT is WAT? http://eligeske.com/asp-net/wat-is-wat/ http://eligeske.com/asp-net/wat-is-wat/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:41:20 +0000 eligeske http://eligeske.com/?p=497 What is WAT?

WAT stand for Website Administration Tool which is provided by .net’s visual studio IDE.

What does WAT do?

WAT allows for a developer to easily setup roles, users, and access rules. There is a couple more features that allow you to choose where you want to store your administration data. WAT uses by default SQL Express which has a set of tables to create users, roles, profiles that is accessed through the System.Web.Security library. WAT makes changes in the tables it has and also the web.config to make your life easier.

If you do not want to use SQL Express to house your user data you can choose to use the aspnet_regsql.exe. Most websites are going to tell you how to achieve this through command line. But you open the executable up located here “{{drive}}:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v{{Your Framework Version}}\” it has a step through wizard to help you through the process.

How do you use WAT?

First realize that this is only useable in your development environment. Also, make sure you gave F5 (Run) a push first, or you will be clicking on that WAT icon all day wondering why it won’t work. Once you push the WAT icon it will popup a pretty crude looking web interface with very few options. Play around with it and look at the different things it creates in your web.config.

To WAT or not to WAT?

I use it to set up some basic roles and users to start off development of sites, but that’s about it. But “To user Membership or not” is a entirely different question.

Here are the two easiest ways to find the WAT tool.

The way to WAT

Another way to WAT

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Download Plugin






THEMES: 



<link href=”{{ path to js folder}}/egstar-rating/theme-light/egstar-rating.css” rel=”stylesheet” />








setting
default
description






Note: All settings are optional, they will just be set to the default if none are passed.










This is where you set how many stars you want visible, example: ‘maxstars’ = 3, you can go as high as you like, but remember your page size.










Allow half ratings like 3.5 or 1.5, if set to false it will only allow hole numbers, example: ‘halfstars’ = true.










Allow the user to edit the rating they submitted, if set to false it will hide the “edit” link.










This is the animation speed in milliseconds when the box resizes after being clicked.






Enter the name of your function that you want to call here. Do not include the parentheses. 		


The name of your callback function, It will default to false if not entered. If you want to use it, your callback would look like something like this:

myFunction(){

// your code in here, like an ajax call or something to post the rating.

var rating = this.rating;

var input = this.input; // This is the dom obj for the input.

}		




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This is the width in pixels of the large stars, set this only if you are creating your own theme.




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This is the width in pixels of the small stars, set this only if you are creating your own theme.

















This table was made pretty with tablestyler.com




<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>

<head>


<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />


<title>Your WebSite</title>


<link href=”{{ path to js folder}}/egstar-rating/theme-light/egstar-rating.css” rel=”stylesheet” />


<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js”></script>


<script type=”text/javascript” src=”{{ path to js folder}}/egstar-rating/egstar-rating.min.js“></script>


<script type=”text/javascript“>


$(document).ready(function)(){


     $(“.eg-input“).elistars({ maxstars: 8, halfstars: false, allowedit: false, a_speed: 700 });


});


</script>


</head>


<body>


    <input type=”text” class=”.eg-input” />


</body>


</html>





Have any requests or suggestions to make the plugin better? Let me know and I may just add them :)  

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