My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week a new article will be publishe......
Unit Testing with Silverlight
One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated u......
March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Three New ASP.NET Security Tutorials Now Available: Scott Mitchell continues his great ASP.NET secur......
Live from Redmond - Visual WebGUI Webcasts this Thursday & Friday
Please joind me for these 2 webcasts this Thursday and Friday. VWG is a cool FREE set of tools to accelerate your ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight Web Development. Guy Peled, CTO of Visual WebGui is joining me and he will build applications live during the webcats. Click below to register - attendance ......
Introducing the Autocomplete Text Field for SharePoint 2007
Yesterday I finally had some time to finish a project I've been working on for some time: the Autocomplete Text Field for SharePoint 2007. Click here for a small demo screencast on Soapbox, or download the high resolution video from the CodePlex site. The idea is pretty simple: you've got a Sha......
March 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET
I'm slowly recovering from keynoting at MIX last week, and have been digging my way out of backlogged email the last few days. I'm going to try and finish catching up on blog comments this weekend - apologies for the delay in getting back to some of your questions. To kick-start my bl......
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week a new article will be publishe......
A case for partial rendering
I've been seeing more and more authors lately dismissing partial rendering (a.k.a. UpdatePanel) as a poor man's version of Ajax, something you should only choose if you're too lazy to implement "true" Ajax. I think that view not only has a slightly pedantic ring (isn't laziness one of th......
Wake-on-LAN from a .NET Micro Framework Device
Well, I love the easy development of embedded devices with the .NET Micro Framework. As the device I'm currently using is really small I tried to build a small Web site on it to start my private servers at home using Wake-on-LAN. You'll find a lot of helper methods samples on the Internet but I cou......
Wrong DateTime on .NET Micro Framework Devices
Since embeddedworld2008 in Nuremberg I'm playing in my free time with the .NET Micro Framework and the Digi Connect ME network device. I've created a small Web server and ported the Ajax.NET Professional library to the really cool and small .NET framework. When I reset such a device the current da......
My own small .NET Micro Framework Web Server
While developing my small Ajax.NET M! library for creating Web applications that run on the .NET Micro Framework I have started to write my own Web server. Some years ago I wrote a simple SMTP/POP server and using some code from there was a great help. The first version will only return static HTML......
Ajax.NET M! - The .NET Micro Framework AJAX Library
The embeddedworld2008 is over and I had some time to play around with Microsoft .NET Micro Framework devices. I can remember that I had a look on it during the first available betas on Microsoft Connect, but then stopped watching it because of the missing TCP/IP stack. The now available version 2.5......
MIX08 in Vegas this week
I'll be headed down to Las Vegas this week to attend the MIX08 show. This is the third year of MIX and it's by far my favorite Microsoft event, and not just because it's in Vegas. Like the last two years, this show should provide plenty of great surprises. I'll be participating in a......
Updated AJAX Control Toolkit release
As you know, the team has been very busy working on controls for the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta 1 release. Working on a new platform, with new tools, doing things that have never been done before is more than enough to keep us busy. But we wanted to make sure we kept some focus on our AJAX C......
ASP.NET Data Validation and Data Entry Controls
If there's one thing I hate about building Web Forms it's data validation and custom data entry controls (think date pickers, etc.). ASP.NET provides some nice controls to perform validation, and has controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit that also help, but in many cases you end up writing cus......
At the Visual Studio 2008 Launch in LA
I am already having a great time at the Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Sql Server 2008 Launch event in LA… I am gave a very fun session on Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers... It was fun to pull this together over the last few days (harddrive crash excluded). There is S......
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week a new article will be publishe......
First Look at Silverlight 2
Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows , and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model. We are shortly going to release the first public......
Working with Asp.Net Timer control on client side
Hi,
Few days back I saw this question in the forums and from then I was looking for an answer for it. The Timer control in the asp.net Ajax is pretty useful when we want to do some activity on the client side at a certain interval of time. The control also gives us good control on twe......
Creating an AJAX-Enabled Calendar Control
Go to any travel or event booking website and you'll find the same user interface for collecting date information: the Calendar. Providing such an interface
in an ASP.NET application is a breeze, thanks to the built-in Calendar Web control. There are two downsides to ASP.NET's Calendar control: ......
If you're reading this, you should be on weblogs.asp.net/bleroy
Apologies if you're not. Let me explain. I'm publishing this post on my blog, which quite a few external sites chose to aggregate. I thank them for that, but I should still have the freedom to talk about any subject I want on my own blog no matter what the editorial line of those other sites is. Th......
New Live-From-Redmond Webcasts with Visual WebGui
My blog posts on Visual WebGui have generated allot of interest so I thought we'd have a couple of webcasts and dive into the VWG experience. Live from Redmond: March 13th 01:00PM Pacific Visual WebGui - An Enterprise AJAX application in 20 minutes. It is all about simplicity: Sim......
Upcoming Speaking Engagements and Training
I have a few speaking engagements and training events coming up in the next few days and months here in beautiful San Diego.
Local User Group Talk: Storing Binary Data in an ASP.NET Web Application - Tuesday, February 19th, 2008I'll be speaking at the ASP.NET SIG here in San Diego. The meeting, he......
Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET
Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications : Kyle has a nice post that summarizes a number of good be......
Return of SmartPart v1.3 for SharePoint 2007 Released!
Yesterday evening I've uploaded a new version of the SmartPart to the CodePlex site. For those of you who don't know the SmartPart: it's a generic web part wrapper for SharePoint 2007 which can host any ASP.NET Web User Controls. So basically you can build web parts by using the Visual Studio desig......
Great ASP.NET AJAX Web Portal Starter Kit: dropthings.com
I was very excited to see that Omar AL Zabir , co-founder & CTO Pageflakes has created a very cool AJAX based Web portal http://dropthings.com . And even more excited to see he has posted all the code in an open source way! Now you can build your own Ajax portal fun! Dropthings is a open source......
LINQ to JSON
James has published a first beta of LINQ to JSON support in his Json.NET library. It looks very similar to my LINQ support in an internal build of Ajax.NET Professional which never has been released. List<Post> posts = GetPosts();
JObject rss =
new JObject(
new JProperty......
MS-Ajax Client Javascript integrated within the Aptana IDE
Aptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries. At the core of ASP.NET's AJAX support is the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 ( direct download ), a collection of Javascript classes that you can use in an......
Feb 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, WPF
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET ASP.NET Security Tutorial Series: Scott Mitchell (who wrote the excellent Data Access Tutorial Series for u......
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week a new article will be publishe......
SubSonic 2.1 Beta released
Just in case you never heard about SubSonic yet, it’s a kickass DAL and I use it for a lot of my projects. Currently it supports SQL Server 2000 or 2005, MySQL and or Oracle (with SQLLite, SQLCE). They also offer a nice Starter-Kit which comes pre-wired with SubSonic, Membership, AJAX, Useful Utili......
Microsoft Ajax Library Book Published
I recently got a copy of Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained by Cristian Darie and Bogdan Brinzarea . I think it is very, cool that there is a whole book on the Microsoft Ajax Library ( download )... I think this is a far two unsung asset of the ASP.NET 3.5 . T......
Getting absolute coordinates from a DOM element
For some reason, there is no standard API to get the pixel coordinates of a DOM element relative to the upper-left corner of the document. APIs only exist to get coordinates relative to the offset parent. Problem is, it's very important to get those coordinates for applications such as drag and dro......
Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS
I just arrived back from my trip from Asia, and decided to celebrate (since I'm jet-lagged and can't sleep) with a new post in my link-listing series. You can check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET ......
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week a new article will be publishe......
New Video: Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX
I gave a talk at Desert Code Camp toward the end of 2007 that discussed how Microsoft's Silverlight product could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. It's taken awhile to get the video posted, but it's now available. The......
Dates and JSON
JSON is a great data format and it's taken the Internet by storm for a number of good reasons. But because of a strange oversight in the EcmaScript specs, there is no standard way of describing dates in JSON. There's been a lot of discussion on this topic and it still remains a problem today.
In t......
Upcoming .NET Courses in 2008
I've had several people here in the Phoenix area and others I've met at ASP.NET Connections conferences ask when I'll be teaching specific .NET classes in 2008 and my standard reply has been "I'm not sure at this point". We have things scheduled out past June now so here's the information for......
How to... use Class Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX like AjaxPro
Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods in......
How to... move from AjaxPro to ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods
In one of my last posts I blogged about the future of Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) and that I'm not able to do further development on that project. A lot of my readers feeling sad about this but I had to concentrate more on new technologies that will revolutionize web application developme......
Everywhere Microsoft Silverlight
To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft I got a small popup showing me that I can get a ......
Screencast: how to enable server-side history management in an ASP.NET Ajax application
I've recently recorded a screencast showing how to enable server-side history management (in other words, handling the back button) in an ASP.NET Ajax application. The whole video is less than 15 minutes total and I build the whole application from scratch in there (in VB). I hope it shows just how......
Future of Ajax.NET Professional
I'm happy to see that Ajax.NET Professional is used about 13.3% when using .NET related web applications. Starting with my first post Using a HttpHandler and Attributes to call C# methods in JavaScript in February 2005 the AJAX hype started around the world. Two months later I renamed the project t......
Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls - Displaying Data with the ListView: Scott Mitch......
Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects
One of the great new features of VS 2008 is its support for framework multi-targeting. This enables you to use VS 2008 on .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 projects, and does not require you to upgrade your projects to the latest version of the .NET Framework in order to take advantage of ne......
Ajax usage survey among .NET developers
Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian, Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consec......
.NET AJAX Survey Results
Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit which is used by almost half of the .NET devel......
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing and are maybe important for everyone. Socket ......
Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
I'm using Ajax View more and more and find it very useful. The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and control over their web applications' behaviors on end-user's desktops. The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy (or web server plugin) in......
December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS7, WPF
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Creating an Outlook Navigation Bar using the ListView and Accordion Controls: Matt Berseth has a nic......