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Enterprise Library 5.0 and containers

With the Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0, youll be able to use a container of your choice to configure the various blocks. This interesting post discusses the architectural changes that made possib...

ASP.NET Ajax in Action, 2nd edition

ASP.NET AJAX in Action my first book, published by Manning in 2007 has been a successful project. It received great feedback (for example, 19 out of the 25 reviews on Amazon are 5-stars) and its be...

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers

Simone Chiaretta MVP and ASPInsider has created a survey to understand in which environment .NET developers are using Ajax, in conjunction with which web framework, and which javascript libraries th...

ViewState: Handle with care

I’m refactoring an ASP.NET application and I’ve already found several times – too many – code similar to the following: <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlTimeZone" runat=&...

ASP.NET Podcast Show

In the latest ASP.NET Podcast Show, Wally, Paul and David of ASPInsiders talk about the Windows Azure platform. I’m sure it’s going to be an interesting talk.Share this post: email it! |...

Update on ASP.NET AJAX In Action Source Code

On the CodePlex project for ASP.NET AJAX In Action, there are now two releases that target the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Extensions and ASP.NET 3.5, respectively. AAiA_AspNet20 - This release allows to compil...

Book: The Art of Unit Testing

I had the chance to review this book, which will soon be published by Manning. Roy Osherove did a really good writing job. You'll find in this book all you need to quickly get up and running with unit...

Got a BS in Electronic Engineering

I've managed to complete my studies in Electronic Engineering, which I abandoned a few years ago to dive into informatics and programming.I'm happy because I hate unfinished work. Thanks mom a...

Book: jQuery In Action

I'm sure you already know about this good move. Since jQuery will ship with Visual Studio, I took the time to read a book on the subject.jQuery In Action is published by Manning and is a really go...

Book: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership and Role Management

I've found this book to be a good guide on the subjects of ASP.NET Application Services and WebForms security. It's written by Stefan Shackow, a program manager on the Web Platform and Tools t...

Gift from Microsoft

Today I've received a little package from Microsoft. Inside it, there was a nice letter: [...] I wish to thank you for the incredibly valuable feedback that you have provided. The importance of ha...

VS2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Released

You can download them here. For those of you involved in ASP.NET, be sure to check this page for a list of the new features available in .NET 3.5 SP1. Notes from my installing experience: I've d...

Win the entire Manning library!

Today my publisher forwarded this great news: The “.NET Daily Drawing” starts tomorrow, June 19 Tomorrow we are launching the ".NET Daily Drawing.”  This promotion wil...

ASP.NET AJAX In Action code on CodePlex

Today we published the source code for the book ASP.NET AJAX In Action on CodePlex. This means that you can always download the latest update by browsing to the Source Code page. Our goal is to keep ...

Update: ASP.NET AJAX meets Virtual Earth

I've added a new article to my ASP.NET AJAX meets Virtual Earth series. This time we'll explore the inner workings of a Web Service proxy. If you are interested in the whole series, please check this ...

ASP.NET AJAX meets Virtual Earth series on DotNetSlackers

I'm writing for DotNetSlackers a series of short tutorials on ASP.NET AJAX. The goal is to offer an overview of the main features of the framework in the context of a little mashup that leverages the ...

Ajax Data Controls on Ajaxian

Ajaxian has a blog post on Ajax Data Controls, an open source project supported by DotNetSlackers. I recommend to check it out, as it contains some really cool Ajax controls.Share this post: email it!...

ASP.NET AJAX In Action - Errata

The errata for ASP.NET AJAX In Action has been posted on the Manning website. Thanks for reporting issues and mistakes in the text! If you want to submit more, you can use the Online Author Forum.Sha...

Contest: Three copies of ASP.NET AJAX in Action up for grabs

Dave Ward setup a nice contest for his site's upcoming one year anniversary. It's an open drawing and you can win a copy of our book, ASP.NET AJAX In Action, by leaving a comment in the blog, subscrib...

Dino Esposito writes about the ASP.NET AJAX History feature

Today DotNetSlackers published an article on the ASP.NET AJAX History feature, written by Dino Esposito. The History functionality (that aims at solving the broken Back button issue) is included in ...

SliderExtender layout and custom appearance

This post helps you understanding how the slider’s layout is structured and how to change the default appearance. Layout The Slider Extender replaces an extended asp:TextBox control with a g...

I'm an ASPInsider!

A few days ago I've been invited to join ASPInsiders. I can't wait to share thoughts and ideas with so many great ASP.NET developers. Thanks guys!Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it...

ASP.NET AJAX In Action excerpts featured on ASP.NET homepage

Back to writing time, we had the great pleasure of having Joe Stagner as the technical reviewer for our book ASP.NET AJAX In Action. Now Joe is publishing some book excerpts on his blog, which is also...

ASP.NET AJAX: Removing a client event handler after it's been called

When dealing with partial postback scenarios, it's sometimes desirable to run some JavaScript at the end of a partial postback. A typical situation is when we inject the JavaScript code on the se...

Print book shipped!

Yay! The book finally shipped! We'd love to listen to your feedback either on Amazon (how about writing a review? That would be great!) or on the authors forum at the Manning ...

ASP.NET AJAX In Action Ebook released!

Finally we've done it! I'm proud to announce that our book, ASP.NET AJAX In Action, has  been released in ebook format. "The ASP.NET AJAX official website already provides video tutorials, ...

Picking up times with a Slider

An user in the ASP.NET AJAX forums asked about a way to implement a time picker using the Slider Extender shipped with the Ajax Control Toolkit. Here's an approach that allows to set a time in 15...

Slider Extender: new TooltipText property and Accessibility

In the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit, the Slider comes with a new property called TooltipText. The TooltipText property can be set to a string that is displayed when we hover over the sli...

Mash-it Up with ASP.NET AJAX: Using a proxy to access remote APIs

I wrote an article about accessing remote services through a proxy represented by a local ASP.NET web service. The article is live on DotNetSlackers and is part of the AJAX column. By the way, Michael...

Tip: Using the Toolkit's Animation framework without the AnimationExtender

The Ajax Control Toolkit provides a powerful framework for creating animations, which consists of a set of classes contained in the client AjaxControlToolkit.Animation namespace. The Animations.js fil...

I'm writing a book

Finally I can make the official announcement: I'm writing a book on ASP.NET AJAX that will be published by Manning! Yes, we want to share with you what we've learned in over a year of study, developme...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

You can read the announcement in ScottGu's blog and download the source here.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...

David Barkol started a new blog

David is a consultant at Neudesic and he knows a lot about ASP.NET AJAX. I'm currently working with him on a project (you'll know the details very soon) that involves ASP.NET AJAX, and now he's s...

Source code for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

This is great news, I'm quoting it directly from ScottGu's blog: In addition to shipping the source code for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit controls, we are also releasing all of the source cod...

ASP.NET AJAX RTM released!

Finally! The RTM version of the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (i.e. the 1.0 version) is available for download!! It's been a long journey (I've followed the product from the first CTP release) and I must sa...

Ajax Control Toolkit 10123 released

The new release of the Ajax Control Toolkit, which runs on ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, is available for download on CodePlex! This release of the AJAX Control Toolkit includes four new controls (AutoComplete (...

ASP.NET AJAX and Ajax Control Toolkit best .NET Tool on Developer.com

I've just read it on Glav's blog and I want to propagate this great news: ASP.NET AJAX and the Ajax Control Toolkit got the best .NET Tool of 2007 award on Developer.com! Congratulations to the ASP.NE...

AJAX Security Webcasts by Joe Stagner

Joe Stagner is starting a great "Live From Redmond" Webcast series about AJAX and Security topics. Don't miss them! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | l...

Sharing my "ajax" posts

It's been a while since I've switched to Google Reader (it's a great RSS reader) but I've not used its tagging feature very much. Now it's time to better organize my feeds, therefore I've decided to s...

Tip: performing browser detection with ASP.NET AJAX

Often web applications need to detect the browser that is currently rendering a page. Instead of directly accessing the JavaScript's navigator object, we can use ASP.NET AJAX to easily accomplish this...

Build widgets with ASP.NET AJAX

Another great article by Omar Al Zabir. After sharing his tips and tricks about networking with ASP.NET AJAX, now he shows how to build a complete and full-featured widgets UI similar to those found i...

Slider extender featured in the ASP.NET Podcast

Wally informed me that the Slider extender that I wrote for the Ajax Control Toolkit was featured in the last podcast. I recommend watching the video as well as subscribing to the ASP.NET Podcast...

Enabling xml-script on page

In the December CTP of the ASP.NET AJAX Futures, there is a change in the way the PreviewScript.js file embedded in the System.Web.Preview.dll assembly is referenced. The following is a simple page t...

ASP.NET AJAX RC is out!

...and this means that we are very, very close to the RTM. The RC release can be downloaded here. The December CTP of the ASP.NET AJAX Futures can be downloaded here. The Ajax Control Toolkit team jus...

First CTP of WPF/E released!

This is great news. What do you think about using WPF together with Microsoft Ajax? Read the announcement in this blog entry by Scott Guthrie.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | ...

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

I'm reading great posts and articles about Ajax during these days, like this interesting post by Michael Schwarz about the POST vs GET topic also addressed by Omar Al Zabir in his great article with a...

Polling with two UpdatePanels

Live Demo    Source Code While browsing the ASP.NET Forums I came to a thread with a request for implementing a polling scheme with two UpdatePanels. In the specific scenario...

Xml-script tutorials on DotNetSlackers

I'm writing some tutorials on xml-script that will be published on DotNetSlackers. You can access them from the links below. If you have any feedback or suggestions please leave a ...

MS AJAX: A helper for creating component events

Introduction Microsoft Ajax defines a component as a class that inherits from the base Sys.Component class. Components are able to raise events thanks to a pattern similar to the one in .NET fram...

Strongly typed collections with JavaScript and Microsoft Ajax?

Not exactly, but we can achieve a similar result by using the parameter validation mechanism provided by Microsoft Ajax. Introduction The core library defines Function._validateParams(parameters, desc...

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