Cufon is awesome.  You generate a font, then attach it and the Cufon.js to your site.

What you get is instant client-side text replacing.  If done properly you won't even see the text popping to your Cufon font.  Even better, it supports all but the oldest browsers (even works on IE6!)

I prefer Cufon over other flash based alternatives because (and obviously) we're not relying on a plugin to be installed...just javascript enabled.

Tips:
1) use Cufon.now() at the bottom of the page above your .js scripts (like google analytics)
2) Older browsers w/out a css selector engine need the jQuery library loaded before cufon

I'm more of a Designer/Front-End guy but trying hard to understand .NET and learn as much as I can. I had a developer help me with some of this, but I'm still stumped.

I'm confused as to how I can get my form to validate using the validation controls.

Whenever I call the onClick="send_Click" it bypasses the validation and runs the form string and redirects to my thankyou.aspx.

When I replace it with the onClientClick it validates but fails to run the code in the aspx.cs file.

Here is a snippet of what is on the form page aka howtoget.aspx.

<div class="formboxit2">
        <div class="contactlabelist2"><span style="color:#246FF5">*</span><label>Email</label></div>
        <div class="contactinputist">
            <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Email" runat="server" Height="19px" Width="200px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" CssClass="radPad" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
                <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
                <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            </telerik:RadTextBox>
            
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3" runat="server" Display="Dynamic"
            ControlToValidate="Email" ErrorMessage="The textbox can not be empty!" EnableClientScript="False" />
        </div>
</div>
<div class="formboxitM">
    <div class="contactlabelist"><label>Message</label></div>
    <div class="contactinputist">
        <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Message" runat="server" Height="114px" TextMode="MultiLine" Width="634px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
            <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
        </telerik:RadTextBox>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="contactinputistSub"><asp:button runat="server" ID="send" onClick="send_Click" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="0px" CssClass="swerps" /></div>
<div class="inquiry">*Your information will only be used for this inquiry.</div>   


and here is what I have on the aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Net.Mail;
using Telerik.Web.UI;

namespace domain.com
{
    public partial class howtoget : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
       }

        protected void send_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                string firstname = this.FirstName.Text;
                string lastname = this.LastName.Text;
                string phone = this.Phone.Text;
                string email = this.Email.Text;
                string messageoftext = this.Message.Text;
                string bodyoftext = firstname + " " + lastname + " " + "has requested to be contacted. " + firstname +
                    "'s email address is: " + email + " . You may contact this person at: " + phone + " . " + firstname+ " has left message: " + messageoftext;
                MailMessage message = new MailMessage("info@domain.com", "info@domain.com", "Customer Request", bodyoftext);
                SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient("relay-hosting.secureserver.net ");
                message.IsBodyHtml = true;
                emailClient.Send(message);
                Response.Redirect("thankyou.aspx");
            }
            catch (Exception mailex)
            {
                Response.Write(mailex.ToString());
            }
 
        }
    }
}

How Do I Get Notifications of Updates?  I'd like an e-mail when new updates to Telerik products are released.  I'm apparently on some kind of e-mailing list, I'm a fan of Telerik's Facebook Page and I was interacting with Telerik staff almost daily.  Yet somehow I was never informed of WinForms Q3 2009 SP1 being released.  It looks like you normally post new release news in the Forum but it looks like noone posted about the WinForms Q3 2009 SP1.  Even if someone did, I don't want to have to check the Forum (even as an RSS Feed) or my Facebook Wall.  I'd like update notifications via e-mail.  Thanks.

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I recently ran into a problem where IIS is refusing to handle a URL which contains one of the reserved words.  In my case, I accept URLs for company searches by their ticker symbol, in the form of http://<myhost>/search/ticker/<tickersymbol>

At random, I tried searching for "CON" last night and found that http://<myhost>/search/ticker/con immediately generates an error in IIS.  aarghh!

Is there a workaround for this?  Maybe an IIS config switch to allow these URLs through anyway?  googling for this problem turned up a couple other people describing this, but I found no solution, other than "don't do this!"  The only alternatives I see are to change the search URL to take the ticker symbol as a parameter instead (ugh), or to append a special character onto the ticker in the URL, like "/con_".  However, I'd much rather just have IIS not reject the URL in the first place, if that's possible.

Any insight into dealing with this problem would be appreciated!

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