Updated Toolkit (for AJAX Beta 2) available on CodePlex
We've released an updated version of the Toolkit on CodePlex to match ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2, which launched yesterday. Not many changes here other than what was necessary for compat. We fixed a few other bugs that people were running into as well (ModalPopup positioning issue, handling of behavior ID......
DOM events in the Microsoft AJAX Library
In previous CTPs, the client-side DOM event model was the IE model. You would use attachEvent and get the event data from window.event. In other words, we had just implemented the IE model in Firefox and Safari. This didn't fly as well as we expected for a number of reasons. For instance, it wasn't......
Welcome to TechEd Europe
I just got in last night into Barcelona for TechEd Europe.. One thing I love about my job is that I get to span the full range of application space supported by the .NET Framework… As such I think I am the only speaker at Teched doing a server based talk and a smart client talk! Should be fun to se......
ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Messages
Microsoft made some fairly significant changes to the way ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control messages are sent to and from the server in the latest beta release. In earlier versions XML was used. For example, a portion of a response message is shown below that contains a <delta>......
Las Vegas DevConnections Talks - Code and Content (Updated)
I'm going to be giving 3 talks and one pre-conference workshop at DevConnections next week in Las Vegas on behalf of Interface Technical Training. It's always a great conference and I'm looking forward to it. The topics I'll be covering are shown below:Migrati......
Tips/Tricks and LINQ Slides+Demos from my Talk in Dallas
I had a great time presenting fora fewhours to the North Dallas .NET User Group this past Thursday.I covered two topics: ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks This talk covered ASP.NET UI, AJAX, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks. Click here to download the slides+demo......
ASP.NET AJAX--Two weeks later
I spent the past ten days working on Beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. (OK, I also played a bit of tennis but that's another--and sad--story ...) I'm just curious to see what's coming out with Beta 2 of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. I'll nimbly bypass the side effec......
Headed off to DevConnections
I'm getting ready to meet the 5,000 of you attending DevConnections next week. WOOOOOOWIn spite of what I did for the largest part of the past months, I won't be presenting about ASP.NET AJAX at the show. And given the breaking changes with Beta 1, that is a big relief for me :-)Instead, I&......
Las Vegas DevConnections Talks - Code and Content
I'm going to be giving 3 talks and one pre-conference workshop at DevConnections next week in Las Vegas on behalf of Interface Technical Training. It's always a great conference and I'm looking forward to it. The topics I'll be covering are shown below:Migrati......
Meet the team in Vegas next week
I'll be in Las Vegas next week for ASP Connections with some other people from the AJAX team. If you're going too, stop by and say hi.We're going to talk about some new exciting features, in particular some great localization and globalization stuff.
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November Events Pt 2: TechEd Developer (11/7-11/10)
Your second chance to meet the IIS team this November will be in sunny Barcelona! TechEd Developer is also next week (11/7-11/10) at the Centre Convencions Internacional (CCIB) in Barcelona Spain. Eric Rudder, the SVP for Technical Strategy, is giving the keynote speech on how the launch of Windows......
Scott Guthrie at North Dallas .NET User Group
Scott did an awesome job last night at the North Dallas .NET User Group. He started with a great Tips & Tricks talk and finished with a talk on LINQ.The Tips & Tricks were great, lots of little cool features that are in .NET but most people don’t know about as well as some sweet new A......
Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how......
Atlas 6: When 'this' is not really 'this'
Atlas callbacks are not executed on the same context where they are called. As a result, 'this' is not always 'this'. Read on to learn what this means to AJAX developers....
Migrating to ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1
If you're trying to migrate from previous Microsoft Atlas releases to the new ASP.NET AJAX Core Beta 1 you'll quickly find out that several things have changed. I was playing around with the AutoCompleteExtender this evening and noticed that it isn't in the "core" instal......
UpdatePanel Data Transfer and the beginRequest and endRequest client side page life cycle events - Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
Cross posted from: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/11/01/470.aspxIs AJAX really AJAX? The answer, like many other things, is “It Depends.” The AJAX acronym states that the X is for XML. I can’t speak for all frameworks, but some frameworks use J......
ComponentArt blogs
The folks over at ComponentArt have started blogging. According to the dates of posts, the blog just went up today. The address for their blog is: http://blogs.componentart.com/. Their first big post seems to be http://blogs.componentart.com/miljan/archive/2006/10/31/ASP.NET-AJAX-Beta-1......
ComponentArt on migrating to ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1
Miljan over at ComponentArt wrote his first post explaining how their migration to Beta 1 went (i.e. great, the whole thing was done in four days). He has some very nice things to say about the platform, which we're all very flattered about: "After getting over the initial hump, we found A......
ComponentArt starts blogging
ComponentArt has a blog, Miljan announced it here, and it's built on Community Server v2.1.Community Server uses ComponentArt Web.UI controls for a lot of the more advanced grids and AJAX enabled features. This should be a great way for ComponentArt customer's to get an even deeper understa......
Debugging Javascript on a Live site - Fun and Games
I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as us......
Great info on UpdatePanel in ASP.NET AJAX
Eilon Lipton, the developer for UpdatePanel recently posted some great resources to the forums that are a must read for anyone interested in UpdatePanel (yes all of you :)) What's up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works?This is a higher level piece that explains how UpdatePanel changed from......
Released: Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0.3
I'm happy to announce that Excentrics World Server Controls has hit version 2.0.3. This version focuses primarily on Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta 1 support enabling developers to utilize the Excentrics World Server Controls through a compatibility layer. The full change-list is as follows: Full......
Which is more difficult?
Somewhat of a continuation of this thought, but really which is more difficult: building scalable well designed software or writing simple, easy to use software?My answer: Building software that is simple and easy to use it much more difficult than building scalable well designed software.Building ......
Chattanooga, TN on November 14, 2006
I'll be in Chattanooga, TN on November 14 to talk at the Chattanooga .NET User Group. The topis going to bethe Microsoft AJAX Library.
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DNNTabStrip Update
Just thought I'd share a quick note regarding the status of the DNNTabStrip.
I had taken a break from its development in order to focus on the Edit In Place functionality. I was at the phase where I was evaluating what to do with tabs that contained other controls that required initialization s......
Client side Page Lifecycle with the UpdatePanel
The UpdatePanel and the asynchronous postback support a new client side
side page lifecycle. I've been going through this over the past couple
of days. Its pretty interesting stuff.
For More Info: http://ajax.asp.net/docs/tutorials/usingMsAjaxLibrary/default.aspx.
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Eilon on UpdatePanel changes
Eilon wrote two very helpful forum posts on the recent changes in UpdatePanel.What's up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works? http://forums.asp.net/thread/1440058.aspxHOWTO: Write controls compatible with UpdatePanel without linking to the ASP.NET AJAX DLL http://forums.asp.net/thread/1......
What is the deal with UpdatePanel
The developer for UpdatePanel recently posted a couple of good articles about the changes we made in the most recent Beta… Enjoy! What's up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works? This is a higher level piece that explains how UpdatePanel changed from being automatic (and broken) in the CTP t......
ASP.NET AJAX JSON Date serialization
The Beta 1 Editon of Active Server Pages DOT NET Asynchronous Java Script And XML Java Script Object Notation (ASP.NET AJAX JSON) have changed the serialization of variables type data. The Christmas date 2000 will be included in a JSON String like {"name":"Hannes","gebdat":"@977612400000@"} I......
Getting data from a web service with Microsoft AJAX Library October Release using the Core bits
I've been work with getting data back from a web service with the October Release and using the Core Bits. If I try and return a datatable, I have been getting an error. I did some checking and I found that the datatable serializer is in the CTP dll, so this has been a frustrating s......
Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX
Luis Abreu is an ASP.NET MVP who has a great blog on the http://msmvps.com blog site. Earlier today he posted a great tutorial post that describes how to use some of the new features in the ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 release to add more robust error handling into your application. I ......
Search autocomplete with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
I am working on a rich content app for one of my talks at TechEd Europe and I thought it would be a good idea to implement a search box with an autocomplete of the past search quires. The intuition here is that the changes are someone else has searched for the same thing you are searching for, so p......
FIX: ASP.NET AJAX- Element 'ScriptManager' is not a known element
I had quite a few problems with ASP.NET Ajax today when I was converting some of my pages in my new product over to Beta 1 because I kept getting "Element 'XXXXXX' is not a know element" in the source viewer. The designer was also freaking out on me and changing my source HTML! I ......
ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 Beta ("Atlas")
Since we release the Beta of ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (code-name "Atlas") about a week ago, there has been a ton of buzz throughout the trade press and developer community. The buzz was mostly anticipated considering we have made many visible and behind-the-scenes improvements each meant t......
Component Art releases a new beta of their controls that supports ASP.NET AJAX
http://atlas.componentart.com/ Very Nice. I am looking forward to seeing what ComponentArt comes up with. I wish I had the time to actually check it out.
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New UI for UpdatePanel Triggers - – Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
There is a new trigger UI for the UpdatePanel in Visual Studio .NET.
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Prefix change (atlas -> asp) - Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 Extensions
If you start checking ou the new tags, most of the tags have had their prefix change from atlas: to asp:. I say most because the UpdateProgress has not had its prefix changed.Original Post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/10/20/439.aspx
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More MS Ajax Pain
Rick Strahl is writing about his experience about the new Atlas files:Ok, here goes. I’ve had one hell of a frustrating day going through my code and moving it to Atlas Beta 1. I’ll get into specific issues in a minute, but my overall feeling is that this build is REALLY BUGGY......
ReportViewer Showing No Data - Solved
I had a really weird issue with a ReportViewer. It would show the little green AJAX Loading… image but it wouldn’t show any data, just a blue background where the output should be. I knew the data was there because exporting to Excel or PDF showed the data just fine. ......
UpdatePanel & Section 508 – Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
The new UpdatePanel supports the Section 508 standard. This is a great improvement over the previous CTP. As a result, users that access an ASP.NET application through a screen reader will be able to get the updated sections of page. Previous builds of the UpdatePanel did not work......
Minimizing the size of Script - Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
Originally pulled from: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/10/20/432.aspxTo minimize the size of script, make sure that you turn off partial rendering(UpdatePanel support) if it is not needed. This means setting the EnablePartialRendering property to false. Thi......
Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios
I've been having some fun playing around with the ASP.NET AJAX Beta release this weekend. Usually when I integrate AJAX functionality into my code I just end up using the built-in server controls that ASP.NET AJAX provides (UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, etc) and the cool controls in the ASP.......
Web Service calling – Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
The calling parameters for calling a web service have changes somewhat in the new build. Assuming that a web service has the calling signature of:MethodName(int p1, string p2, bool p3) in C# with a Class of ClassName, the javascript calling sequence would beClassName.MethodName(p1, p2, p3, On......
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 is out!
It's a great pleasure to announce the beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX. It is a major release of the product formerly known as Prince Atlas. There are too many changes to enumerate here (we basically remodeled the house), but the idea is to provide a rock-solid core and continue to innovate with the valu......
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released
Last month I posted about the official new name for “Atlas,” and discussed the roadmap plan for shipping a free, fully-supported, v1.0 release that works on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Today I am very pleased to announce the first official Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1......
ASP.NET AJAX v1 Beta ships!!
Well I missed the boat on getting in front of ScottGu and pretty much everyone else out there but I was working very late with about 10 other folks to get this release out the door. It is super exciting and Scott's blog post says it all. Key thing, GO download the beta and let us kn......
New Features in ASP.NET AJAX Beta
Microsoft released the intial beta of ASP.NET AJAX today with many, many new enhancements. One of the biggest changes is that the JavaScript files that ASP.NET AJAX controls rely upon to perform their magic have been refactored and significantly reduced in size. For example, the file used to suppor......
Microsoft and Interface Proudly Present: Accelerated ASP.NET AJAX
Here is a link to the Microsoft event details for Accelerated ASP.NET AJAX. I also updated the Interface Technical Training events page.
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Microsoft Ajax security
Phil will be speaking at VBUG conference tommrow on Microsoft Ajax (and Ajax in general) security, the article he mentions is well worth reading. Given the rise of Ajax it's important that same security measures be taken when your work against sql injection or js injection attacks. On a di......
Web 2.0 Attack Vectors
On Tuesday I'm speaking at the VBUG 2006 Conference in Reading (England). My talk is on Atlas security, although is much more generally about AJAX security so this article is great - I actually cover 8 out of the 10 points in this article within my session. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?i......