Tales from the Evil Empire
Bertrand Le Roy's blog
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Getting a reference to a behavior
In the last post, I showed how you can instantiate multiple behaviors on a single input element, through server extenders or directly through client behaviors (which themselves can be created imperatively or declaratively). In this post, I want to show how to get a reference to these behaviors.
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Putting more than one behavior on one element
Microsoft Ajax has the interesting ability to combine more than one component onto a single element. In the previous talk, I alluded to this possibility and one of the commenters (Tiamat) asked me to show how this is done.
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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 works, but more importantly how I built it.
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Deep Zoom without Silverlight
In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version.
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One thing you didn’t know about ASP.NET unless you’re David Ebbo
David has an excellent post about a pretty cool ASP.NET feature that you almost certainly don’t know about. I had no idea for sure. Check it out.
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Preview documentation for ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 available
We published some documentation for ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 Preview 3:
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The magic behind live bindings explained
Dave has a fantastic and very detailed post about our implementation of the Observer pattern in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0.
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Generating HTML from Silverlight
Martin has an interesting post on the technique he uses in his Silverlight chess board to generate HTML from a Silverlight application.
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Visual Studio patched for better jQuery IntelliSense
Jeff King just announced the release of a patch for Visual Studio 2008 that enables the IDE to find the –vsdoc.js file without requiring the developer to reference it.
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Building a data driven application with ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 and ADO.NET Data Services
Jim Wang (one of the great QA people on the Ajax team) just started a blog, and his first post is a very detailed walk through building a data-driven application from scratch using ADO.NET Data Services and the new client templates in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0.