jQuery scrollTo plugin

jQuery has many great plugins.
Here is another one.

scrollTo is one of my favorite ones.
It's very useful and can be use anywhere while scrolling.

It gives scrolling an animation which is good over the boring scrolling.

Here is a quick link for downloading scrollto plugin. jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2.zip
Here is a demo if you want to try it, and see how it works. Demo
Note: you will need jquery-1.3.2 to use scrollTo. jquery-1.3.2.js

Here is the official link to the jQuery website for scrollTo plugin. jQuery scrollTo Official

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jQuery cookie plugin

jQuery cookie plugin makes the cookie handling so simple.

First you have to include jquery.cookie.js plugin
and your work is done..

simple code to manipulate cookie.

Set cookie
$.cookie(cookiename, cookievalue,{expires: 30});
Note: expires takes the time duration in days

Get cookie
$.cookie(cookiename);

Delete cookie
$.cookie(cookiename, null,{expires: 30});

Click here to download jquery.cookie plugin

jQuery quicksearch plugin

Here is a useful plugin to quickly search anything from your table or list.

Just add this little cod after linking the quicksearch.js

For Table:
$('table#myTable tbody tr').quicksearch({
position: 'before',
attached: 'table#myTable',
labelText: 'Quick Search : '
});

For List:
$('ul#myList').quicksearch({
position: 'before',
attached: 'ul#myList',
loaderText: '',
delay: 100
})

Click on the link to download jQuery plugin

Javascript XML Parsing Problem Solution in Internet Explorer

function loadXMLDoc(dname)

{

var xmlDoc;

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE')>=0)

// Internet Explorer

{

xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

xmlDoc.async=false;

xmlDoc.load(dname);

return xmlDoc;

}

else

{

xmlDoc=new window.XMLHttpRequest();

xmlDoc.open("GET",dname,false);

xmlDoc.send("");

return xmlDoc.responseXML;

}

alert("Error loading document");

return null;

}

jQuery - Center a div or any control

Here is a short code to centralize your div or any html control using Jquery..
Dependency could be jquery-1.3.2.js

$('#divid').css('top',$(window).height()/2 - $('#divid').height()/2 + $(window).scrollTop());
$('#divid').css('left',$(window).width()/2 - $('#divid').width()/2 + $(window).scrollLeft());

You can use animate to get some effect to the moving operation.

$('#divid').animate({top: $(window).height()/2 - $('#divid').height()/2 + $(window).scrollTop()},500);
$('#divid').animate({left: $(window).width()/2 - $('#divid').width()/2 + $(window).scrollLeft()},500);

Read - Write SMTP settings Web.Config with Asp.net runtime

//Read SMTP Settings
System.Configuration.Configuration config = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath);
System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup settings = (System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup)config.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
txtSmtpHostAddr.Text = settings.Smtp.Network.Host;
txtSmtpUserName.Text = settings.Smtp.Network.UserName;
txtSmtpPortNo.Text = settings.Smtp.Network.Port.ToString();
txtSmtpEmail.Text = settings.Smtp.From;

//Write SMTP Settings
System.Configuration.Configuration config = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath);
System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup settings = (System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup)config.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
settings.Smtp.Network.Host = txtSmtpHostAddr.Text.Trim();
settings.Smtp.Network.UserName = txtSmtpUserName.Text.Trim();
settings.Smtp.Network.Password = txtSmtpPassword.Text.Trim();
settings.Smtp.Network.Port = txtSmtpPortNo.Text == "" ? 25 : Convert.ToInt32(txtSmtpPortNo.Text.Trim());
settings.Smtp.From = txtSmtpEmail.Text.Trim();
config.Save();