The Hosting News On ColdFusion 8
Derek Vaughan has posted an article on ColdFusion 8 over on TheHostingNews.com.
Derek Vaughan has posted an article on ColdFusion 8 over on TheHostingNews.com.
I was trying to use the ColdFusion 8 Ajax debugger and could not get it to pop up, despite having that option enabled and my IP address (127.0.0.1) in the debug IP address list. Eventually I discovered (by mistake) that if I used "127.0.0.1" in the URL then debugging worked, but if I used...
has been part of ColdFusion since CF2 - originally a Java applet, and then a Flash control, and in ColdFusion 8 an HTML tree control with powerful Ajax support. To demonstrate how to use the new HTML , here is an example that will let you browse the file system tree on your server. What makes this...
Ajax type applications allow developers to update parts of a web page without needing to refresh the entire page. Click on a link and another area of the screen is updated, click a toggle arrow to expand and collapse an inline detail box, submit a form and receive confirmation without updating the...
Ben Nadel has posted several really useful entries on the new tag ( Part I - Data Exchange , Part II - Parallel Threads , Part III - Set It And Forget It ). Nice job, Ben!
Rakshith is part of the ColdFusion engineering team in Bangalore, and he is now blogging .
This one was not discussed during the usergroup tour, and I have not seen anyone mention it since we released the CF8 public beta, so ... If you've ever needed server-side printing under programmatic control, ColdFusion 8 introduces a new tag. prints PDF files (including those created using , and )...
The data grid is critical to all sorts of development on all sorts of platforms and in all sorts of languages. ColdFusion has supported data grids since ColdFusion 2 - first a Java applet, then a Flash control, and in ColdFusion 8 we've added an HTML data grid that can be pre-populated with data,...
Many of us have built related select controls, forms with two (or more) drop down controls, where making a change in one control causes the available selections in the related control to change. For example, selecting a category in one control displays category products in a related control, or...
I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that displays suggestions...