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Monday, Oct 26
Download: WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
WPF exposes the main script object from the host frame. This is a dynamic object that represents the frame’s window object plus any custom script functions and global variables from script in the HTML page. From it, an application can invoke script functions directly or “dot into” the HTML...
Thursday, Oct 15
Download: Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
The ASP.NET team today released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be use...
Tuesday, Sep 15
Download: Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN
Earlier today the ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both comme...
Friday, Jul 24
Download: JavaScript File Management
As many of you know that I am currently involved in developing few UI Components for the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Hint: It is not a personal project, and we do have the plan to make the source open). In this post, I will discuss about our design decisions regarding how we plan to manage the javas...
Friday, Jul 17
Download: IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released
Replace the URLs generated by a web application in the response HTML with a more user friendly and search engine friendly equivalentModify the links in the HTML markup generated by a web application behind a reverse proxy.Fix up the content of any HTTP response by using regular expressio...
Sunday, Jul 12
Download: The ASP.NET Capsule #15: Telerik FREE WebAii Test Framework for RadControls
WebAii Testing Framework facilitates the automation of ASP.NET AJAX and client-side functionality, as well as binding test steps to a data source. Telerik’s new testing tool also incorporates Silverlight Extension that will help developers build tests for Silverlight-based applic...
Friday, Jul 10
Download: Silverlight 3 Released – Exciting Stuff Here!
Silverlight 3 is now officially released and available for download! It’s definitely exciting for me personally because my company has been working on a Silverlight 3 client application for the past few months and really enjoyed the new features. Here are some of the key features Silv...
Download: Silverlight 3 Released
Silverlight 3 includes richer networking support. WCF error faults are now supported across the network. Server-side push duplex support is now easier to setup. Binary XML serialization of payloads is now supported. The new .NET RIA Services framework (which now has a go-live license...
Saturday, Jul 4
Download: ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources
ASP.NET pages that use AJAX components make usually many requests to server per one page to load all required JavaScript and CSS files. Connections, like all other real time resources, are most expensive to create and keep. If we can somehow decrease the number of requests per page load then...
Sunday, Jun 21
Download: Improve ASPX page performance by reducing HTTP Response size by combining Skin & CSS
There has been numerous discussions happened on web site performance, ranging from UI design to Site Hosting. Out of this, one of the important step is, to reduce the size of Http Response size. Optimizing Http Response will considerably reduce the page loading time at the browser. There ar...
Saturday, May 30
Download: May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Using Complex Types to Make Calling Services less…Complex: Dave Ward has a great post that dis...
Friday, May 22
The Top 10 Things Web Developers Still Get Wrong After All This Time
I especially enjoy the way the G&M did it. They show the oldest comments first, so in order to see the fresh stuff, you need to click on the paging links. But there's no "last/first page" links. So you need to slog through that numbered links. Oh, and the links are javascript links. And th...
Saturday, May 16
Datatable to JSON
In this post I will explain you, how can we serialize Datatable to JSON. So that, it can easily pass to JavaScript to get the AJAX done. First of all fill a Datatable with some results. DataTable dt = new DataTable(); SqlConnection objSqlCon = new SqlConnection(System.Configuration.Config...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Hudson – CI Engine
I am amazed. Not everyday you can find a great application that just works the way you expect it to work. Hudson is our teams’ CI engine of choice. We used CruiseControl, but it is no where close to what Hudson is capable. Features I loved most of all:
Sunday, Mar 22
Some MIX talks
Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/03/22/mix-slides-code-and-session-recording.aspx It’s pretty cool to see all the work we put into Ajax this Read More......(read more)
Some MIX talks
Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: It’s pretty cool to see all the work we put into Ajax this past year or so presented at MIX. This is a really nice presentation, like Stephen’s always are.
Download: Beginners introduction to Jiffycms Open source HTML Editor
One of the things you will notice in ASP.NET today is that by default, out of the box there is no standard control representing a rich text editor. You will also notice that your only viable options are quite limited to : FREETEXTBOX --while the name suggests it's free, what is free is only a sub...
Wednesday, Mar 18
Download: Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available
This creates a DataView that queries the PeopleIKnow.svc ADO.NET data service, and repeats the markup in the div over the data. The legend contains two spans that will respond to live changes to the data ({binding FirstName and {binding LastName}). The image will only be rendered if there is...
Saturday, Mar 14
World Wide Web - Internationalization
Internet Explorer 8 seems to totally ignore the browser language settings. Even Google appears in English when I set my browser language to fr-FR in Internet Explorer 8. Only Google ignores the browser language settings for Internet Explorer 8. The Safari browser provides no means to chan...
Wednesday, Mar 11
SharePoint Manager 2007
Basically it lets you explore SharePoint server and see properties of all objects. You can see and sometimes modify even those properties that SharePoint doesn’t show you through browser based interface. There are more very cool uses for this tool but let’s see some pictures too.
Monday, Dec 29
Eliminate page flicker in SharePoint
Happy with SharePoint Sometimes I'm really happy with SharePoint and sometimes I'm not(read previous post). Today I'm happy again. In creating a connected webpart(read previous post) I noticed a very long and irritating page flicker. Normaly I don't really bother and to all those implem...
Monday, Dec 15
Back in the saddle. Asp.net moderation and DotnetNuke Gallery module, here I go.
With the submission of the DotNetNuke Gallery module, I am also starting the planning phase of the next version. And even though I envision full leverage of newer technologies like Silverlight and JQuery to give the module the necessary visual "umph", I will be sharing vision with the res...
Thursday, Nov 20
Download: Building a neat edit in place behavior
For the purposes of my next post, I built a neat little edit in place behavior and I thought it deserved its own post. It does a pretty good job at showing how easy it is to build a clean behavior using ASP.NET Ajax. It’s always good to go back to the basics… In this post, I’ll show you how the behavior...
Thursday, Oct 2
Display a Nice Error Popup Window
I always hated web sites that show Javascript alert message to tell the user about an error. Doing so make me feel that I'm in front of desktop application and not a web app. May be the alternative is to have an error page where you redirect the user in case of any error. This definitely works fine,...
Saturday, Sep 20
Creating a Simple Photo Gallery with FlickrNet
Updated 9/18/08 Live Demo If you have been looking for a way to include your Flickr photos on your website using ASP.NET, then you definitely need to take a look at the FlickerNet API. There are several good examples on the site to help you get started, but I didn't see any that showed how to ret...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Download: Launching QuickTime movies in the player using ASP.NET AJAX framework
The init function simply adds a click handler to the DOM element you passed in with $create, and creates an empty div as the placeholder for the object tags. The _make method makes the object tags that force the sudden creation of a movie, specifiying the player as the target. This combinatio...
Thursday, Aug 21
Patch: Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET3.5 SP1 Released
Hi! Today I am happy to inform all you guy that Codeplex has just released the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET3.5 SP1 . Everything is ready for you to get started with now. Bertrand Le Roy posted about this on more details, click here . To Download the Ajax Control Toolkit just go here: http://www.cod...
Patch: Ajax Control Toolkit released for .NET 3.5 SP1
I will update this post once this is done. What's next? In the very short term, we will provide a client-side only version of the toolkit, similar to the Microsoft Ajax Library , that enables...(read more)
Monday, Aug 11
Patch: Dot Net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 SP1 out
Hi, Microsoft has released sp1 for dot net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 The SP1 has following feature update for Ado.net entity framework The SP1 for visual studio 2008 also has many notable bug fixes. You can find a list of the fixes here.
Wednesday, Jul 16
Patch: ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Released
The following is the higher level roadmap of MVC that available from CodePlex. Improved Ajax Support -Support multiple partial updates Improvements to the Ajax helper methods (link to action, ajax form, field and form observers) Helper Methods Improvements Validatio...
Tuesday, May 20
Download: May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF
ASP.NET AJAX Progress Bar Control: Matt Berseth has another great article that describes his new ASP.NET AJAX Progress Bar control. Create ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls using the ScriptControl base class: Chris Pietschmann has a nice article that talks about how to build new ASP.NET AJAX se...
Saturday, May 10
Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch
A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes pause rendering while a script is be...
Tuesday, Feb 12
Patch: Folks Ajax Framework - New Stable Release 0.0.2
Release changes: Added SandBoxVB project.Removed Library reference.Improvements of jQuery usage.Increased data size of Sample's GridView (40k+ elements)Reported and unreported bug fixes.
Sunday, Dec 9
Download: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview Released
Below you can find links to a few tutorial posts I've done (and a cool screencast by Scott Hanselman and some great testing tutorials by Phil Haack) that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework option. I'll be doing more posts on the non-MVC features in the extensions release in the weeks ahead a...
Thursday, Nov 29
Download: .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)
WPF UI Framework: The current Silverlight Alpha release only includes basic controls support and a managed API for UI drawing. The next public Silverlight preview will add support for the higher level features of the WPF UI framework. These include: the extensible control framework m...
Saturday, Nov 17
Download: Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight
VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense: A Reference for the "Reference" Tag: The VS Web Tools Team published this useful reference that details how to use the // <reference> directive within JavaScript pages to reference other JavaScript files, web services, and JavaScript snippet...
Friday, Jul 27
Patch: re: VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Released
Note that if you create a new web application that targets .NET 3.5 you'll be able to use ASP.NET AJAX. There is also now a version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit that targets .NET 3.5 that you can download here: www.codeplex.com/. ...
Friday, Jul 13
Download: ASP.NET AJAX Health Care Toolkit Controls
Patrick Long recently blogged about some new ASP.NET (and WinForms) controls released on CodePlex that are specific to the health care industry. Several of the controls are AJAX-enabled (based upon the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and the Toolkit) and as I went to download them I found an onl...
Sunday, Feb 18
Download: ASP.NET AJAX Tutorials, Disk Output Cache and RSS Toolkit CodePlex Projects, and Podcasts of Me
I am moving to a new house this week, so I unfortunately didn't get a chance to create any new original content this weekend. But thankfully a few people did forward me some good links that I haven't seen pointed to elsewhere that I highly recommend checking out: Free ASP.NET AJAX Hands-On Tut...
Thursday, Feb 15
Download: ASP.NET Podcast Show #86 - Creating Extender Controls with the ...
NET AJAX Extensions; AJAX Toolkit contains approximately 30 free controls; Free, open source; Additional framework for developing custom AJAX controls; New Templates; http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit.
Tuesday, Feb 6
ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control
Nikhil has updated his cool "UpdateHistory" control for the final ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release (I first blogged about it in this old post). This control enables developers to modify the browser's history stack - which enables AJAX integration with the back/forward buttons in the browser. I...
Monday, Feb 5
Download: ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks and ASP.NET, IIS7 and ASP.NET AJAX End to End Talks
This talk covered ASP.NET UI, AJAX, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks. The samples include updated versions of ASP.NET AJAX that all work with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. You can download the slides+samples here.
Tuesday, Jan 23
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is Released and Available for Download
If you have been waiting for the released version of the Microsoft AJAX offering, you can now download it from here. This page has separate downloads for the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions as well as for the AJAX Control Toolkit. Congrats to Microsoft ! Share this post: email it! | bo...
Download: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released
I am really excited to announce that the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (aka "Atlas") shipped this morning. You can download it here. ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 delivers a rich client-side AJAX library that provides cross platform, cross browser support for a core JavaScript type-sy...
Wednesday, Jan 10
Download ASP.NET AJAX PDF Cheat Sheets
Milan Negovan from the http://aspnetresources.com/ site has been working on putting together some really nice PDF "cheat sheets" for the client-JavaScript libraries in ASP.NET AJAX: Milan is making these available completely for free - so definitely download them and send him feedb...
