Contents tagged with Microsoft AJAX Library
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Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers
If you haven’t already and you are a .NET developer, please take a couple minutes and answer this survey, whether you use Ajax or not. There are a number of Ajax surveys around, but Simone’s is the only one that focuses on .NET developers. -
setInterval is (moderately) evil
JavaScript has two ways of delaying execution of code: setInterval and setTimeout. Both take a function or a string as the first parameter, and a number of milliseconds as the second parameter. The only difference is that the code provided to setInterval will run every n milliseconds whereas the code in setTimeout will run only once. -
New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit
A new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit is now available for download from the CodePlex website. It contains three new controls:
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Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components
We had an interesting discussion recently on the ASP Insiders mailing list and ended up talking about what cool stuff we could build on top of jQuery. Many interesting things were mentioned and it was a very useful discussion but one suggestion in particular struck my curiosity as it was something I had investigated before and that could be improved on with very little code. -
A blog on Microsoft Ajax client templates and data
Politian has a great blog series where he goes into the details of building a data-driven Ajax application using the new 4.0 client templates and data.
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Some MIX talks
Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: -
Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available
The Microsoft Ajax team made the fourth preview of the 4.0 version available on CodePlex. This is an important release because it enables the full client data story, complete with the ability to get changes back to the server automatically.
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How to choose a client template engine
Disclaimer: I worked on the Microsoft Ajax 4.0 template engine, so my criteria are of course heavily influenced by our own design. -
Alternating styles in DataView
A few months ago, I showed how you can alternate styles using CSS in a server-side ListView, by selecting the class depending on the remainder of the division of the data index by two.
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JavaScript Behavior Sheets: an experiment
Here’s a little experiment. I’m really after feedback on this one as I’m trying to decide whether this is a good idea. It’s also entirely possible somebody else did this before. That would be good feedback too. Anyway, here it is.
