Imagine that you have an E-Commerce site and you would like the user to drill down into the attributes of a product to help the user find exactly what they need. You display a dropdown list of product colors. Each time a user selects a new color, a dropdown list displaying products available in that color is populated. In this demo, I've created a small application demonstrating on how to use ASP.net MVC 1.0 framework and JQuery to complete the task.

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I develop for both front end and backend ASP.net web applications and I find myself using a slew of applications on a daily basis. Also, I have hobbies of game map creation using Source SDK Tools, Video Editing, and 3D modeling. Everytime I format my PC at home, I write out a laundry list of applications that I need to install.

For the theme on my site, I wanted to add individual styles to certain widgets to differentiate them from one and another and break up the monotonous look. In order to do that, I added a property to the Widget called CSSClass that appends a name to the existing class: widget so you can add different styles in your css to change the look of certain widgets.

Well I finally got my website up and running. After a couple of years using Joomla and a Apache/MySQL environment, I switched to ASP.NET, VistaDB Express, C# using the .NET open source application BlogEngine.net.