XmlDataSource and its wonderfully helpful cache

From the looks of Google I've managed to stumble on a problem feature that's been causing joy for many years already, but it's a new one on me.

From the docs for XmlDataSource.EnableCaching it says the following:
The default value is true.

Which is a little strange for starters given some of its siblings (e.g. SqlDataSource and ObjectDataSource), but OK, fair enough.

It also says:
the data source will cache data until the XML file that it depends on is changed

Which would be fine, only my data source object isn't depending on a file, and I'm setting its Data property manually. Unfortunately, setting Data to what you want doesn't appear to invalidate the cache, and so you end up with what was there previously anyway.

But hang on a minute - the docs for XmlDataSource.Data specifically say:
If caching is enabled and you change the value of Data, the cache is invalidated.

I don't believe you!

Another bit of my life I'm never getting back, finding that little nugget...

jQuery Demonstration

After a slight *cough* gap since my last post, I figured I should at least come up with something potentially useful to people this time.

Having just started a new role working on a bespoke ASP.NET application, I thought I'd push the case for introducing jQuery into the codebase to help with any client-side requirements. I was asked to give a presentation it to the dev team to get their views, so I spent today coming up with a self-contained demo, using jQuery itself.

I'm by no means a jQuery expert - I've essentially read half a book on the subject and slideToggle()d a couple of <div>s before - but I came up with the rest of it in less than a day, which probably says at least a little about how easy it is to get to grips with.

Anyway, without further ado... I present my short and sweet jQuery Demonstration. A couple of points to note:

• You step through the demo by clicking the "jQuery" title at the top of the page;
• You can click on the first grey markup block at any point to update it to show the current structure of the DOM;
• When you get to the Gallery part, once the click handler has been attached to load the gallery HTML in the background, do actually click the Gallery header to load it before clicking the main jQuery title to get to the next (and final) step!
  

Enjoy!