Need a simple grid for ASP.NET Ajax?
A client grid control is probably the most requested control for the Ajax Control Toolkit. It will come eventually but if you need a simple grid control right now, DotNetSlackers' Ajax Data Controls do a pretty good job. Their grid supports pagination, sorting, drag and drop of columns, in-place ed......
Using client templates, part 1
Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of ......
Super Simple MVC Ajax With JQuery Demo
During the recent Insiders summit, Wally cornered me into recording a really short video demonstrating a feature of ASP.NET MVC. I decided to sprinkle a little Ajax in my demo by showing how to use jQuery to call an action that returns a JsonResult . Specifically, I show how to update a couple of r......
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 (or so) a new article will be ......
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available
I'm very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. Thanks to everyone who made that happen and thanks to all of you for providing feedback on the Roadmap. This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side t......
Internet Explorer 8 and Maximum Concurrent Connections
As defined in 1999 (RFC 2616) “clients that use persistent connections should limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections ......
SCREENCAST: Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008
In this screencast, I show you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Saving-Virtual-Earth-Polygons-to-......
Maximum performance using Telerik RadGrid client-side data-binding with LINQ to SQL
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 you can access the grid sort and filter expressions on the client.
While filter expressions toString() method will create SQL syntax representing current grid filtering now you have toDynamicLinq() method which will cr......
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 is up on CodePlex . The Gu has all the exquisite Gu-Like Detail on his blog . If you take a look at the generated "changes" document, it shows a bunch of new stuff like AjaxHelpers and AjaxExtensions that set the stage for some interesting things the community could ......
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)
The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 thi......
Three New Master Page Tutorials Published
Tutorials #6, #7, and #8 in my Master Pages Tutorial series on www.asp.net have been published. These tutorials examine the interaction between the master page and its content pages:
Interacting with the Master Page from the Content Page [VB | C#] - there may be times when the content page needs......
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 (or so) a new article will be ......
Speeding Up FireFox When Using the ASP.NET Development Server from Localhost
I have long used FireFox as my default browser for surfing the web, but I typically test my ASP.NET pages on Internet Explorer for a couple of reasons:
Some of the larger software projects I work on are developing intranet applications, where all users' browsers are fixed (IE 6 for one client, I......
Using ScriptManager with other frameworks
ScriptManager is a useful control. It manages script references, removes duplicates, enables localization and debug/release modes, enables script combining and makes client-side component-based development easier (components register their script dependencies with ScriptManager without the page dev......
ASP.NET Ajax roadmap published
We just published our roadmap for ASP.NET Ajax. In this document we describe some of the proposed features that we are considering investing in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Web Developer, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. We really appreciate your feedback, so this document is in......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #119 - Using the History (Back) Functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX Web Services in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 1
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Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Using the Timer Control
Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework ships with a mere five Web controls: the ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy;
the UpdatePanel; the UpdateProgress; and the Timer. Previous installments in this article series have examined all but one control, the Timer.
As we've seen from the first installme......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #117 - Using the History Functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 1
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Script reference profiler
ASP.NET Ajax 3.5 SP1 contains a new feature that enables the application developer to combine scripts in order to reduce the number of downloaded files. But in order to do that, the developer must have a way of discovering what scripts are being used in a page or application.
To make that easier, ......
Disabling a User Interface Element During a Partial Page Postback
When using Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework and an UpdatePanel whose ChildrenAsTriggers is set to True (the default), anytime a user interface element
within the UpdatePanel would normally cause a full page postback, a partial page postback is performed instead. For example, clicking a Button......
Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released
Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install ......
Picking Dates with a Free RJS PopCalendar, a Free ASP.NET Popup Calendar Control
A common user interface element for entering date values is a popup calendar. For example, virtually all travel and booking websites prompt for dates using a textbox that, when
clicked or focused, displays a calendar that hovers above the rest of the content on the page. Upon clicking a date fro......
June's Toolbox Column Online
My Toolbox column in the June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The June issue examines:
Browser Compatibility Testing Tools - testing the myriad of browser versions, operating systems, color depth/screen resolution combinations, and existence of plugins like Flash make thorough br......
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release
This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some......
Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET
I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released. The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of different topics including: ASP.NET Master......
Working with Fiddler on LocalHost
Developing ASP.NET AJAX (or any AJAX really) is tremendously easier if you can watch the traffic going across the wire. There are a lot of ways to accomplish this, but I think Fiddler is the most popular Windows application for ASP.NET developers. Sure there is Firebug, and probably a million other......
May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF
Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately. Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to ......
ADO.NET Data Services in.NET 3.5 SP1 Beta1
I started working on an example using the ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria)
in .NET 3.5 SP!. ADO.NET Data Services uses the Entity Framework to
expose data to clients in a restful manner. Its ideally suited to data
access over ajax clients. For some reason, my sample wou......
Enhanced Mix08 Videos Posted
We recently finished the post product work required to get enhanced videos posted. The videos not only include slides\demos, but also include a separate video stream of the speaker so you get a deeper experience. Mix08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications from ......
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 (or so) a new article will be ......
Service Pack 1 Beta Released for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements. Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic D......
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases. These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November. They also contain a number of feature add......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #113 - Deep Dive into the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #112 - Intro to ASP.NET AJAX
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Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Providing Visual Feedback with the UpdateProgress Control
Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Framework helps page developers design more interactive web pages by streamlining the postback mechanism. In traditional web pages,
a full postback involves the browser re-requesting the page, which is then re-rendered. This re-rendered page markup is returned, in its en......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #111 - ASP.NET AJAX with Virtual Earth
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May's Toolbox Column Online
My Toolbox column in the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The May issue examines:
OmniAudit: a tool for creating SQL Server audit trails. OmniAudit offers a very slick and intuitive user interface for defining what tables and columns to audit and then generates the triggers an......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #110 - Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with Google Maps
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April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight
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. ASP.NET Displaying the Number of Active Users on an ASP.NET Site: Scott Mitch......
Refresh the UpdatePanel using JavaScript Code
(It's the post I wrote one year ago in my previous blog which has been cancelled now.) Lots of customers asked me that how to refresh the UpdatePanel - it actually is to raise an async postback using JavaScript code. The feature is quite important in some scenarios but unfortunately, ASP.NET AJAX ......
Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks
I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics. It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events. This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications ......
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview disponible
Il y a quelques mois, est sorti la preview des extensions 3.5 d'ASP.NET contenant un lot de nouvelles fonctionnalités qui seront délivrées plus tard cette année (ASP.NET AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Silverlight Support, et ASP.NET Dynamic Data compris). Cette preview......
Liens du 11 avril: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio et Silverlight
Voici l’article le plus récent dans ma série Listes de liens. Visitez aussi ma page Astuces, trucs et tutoriels ASP.NET et ma page Tutoriels Silverlight pour des liens vers des articles populaires que j’ai écrits dans le passé. ASP.NET Plus de tutoriels su......
Ajax.NET and IIS 7 Integrated Mode
As there are some questions on how to run Ajax.NET on IIS 7 (i.e. Windows Vista) in integrated mode instead of classic mode here are two things you have to check: First check that the IIS_ISSRS group has access to your Web site folder. If you are using the default folder for Web sites with Visu......
AJAX UpdatePanel - "Statefull" Control Update Trigger
I get an obscene amount of email. Since I've been working with the Developer Community at Microsoft for 7 years, my email address has been spread around a bit. I get about 1000 email a day. Very often from developers who what me to write code for them :) I generally don't have time to do th......
April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight
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. ASP.NET More ASP.NET Security Tutorials : The last three of Scott Mitchell's excellent AS......
Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets: Part I
Silverlight 2 has built-in support for sockets which creates some interesting possibilities. If you've ever worked on a client-side application that needed to receive up-to-date data then you're probably used to solving the problem by polling. With polling the client contacts the server......
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available
A few months ago we released an ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview that contained a bunch of new features that will be shipping later this year (including ASP.NET AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Silverlight Support, and ASP.NET Dynamic Data). The ASP.NET Dynamic Data support within that p......
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......