Contents tagged with ASP.NET AJAX
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ASP.NET AJAX Health Care Toolkit Controls
Patrick Long recently blogged about some new ASP.NET (and WinForms) controls released on CodePlex that are specific to the health care industry. Several of the controls are AJAX-enabled (based upon the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and the Toolkit) and as I went to download them I found an online demo available here. I wish I would've had some of these controls on past health care projects I worked on. An example of one of the more robust controls called MedicationGrid is shown below:
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Book: Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Released
Wally McClure, Steve Smith and several others recently had their Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX book released. I hear that lines at book stores around the world were huge and people have been camping out for days to be the first ones to get it. :-) Congrats to everyone involved with writing it. I haven't seen it yet, but knowing several of the authors I'm sure it's excellent.
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AJAX Rain
I was reading through Dave Ward's blog at http://encosia.com/ and came across a really cool AJAX Website he mentions called AJAX Rain. It contains links to all kinds of cool AJAX scripts to do just about anything on the client. It's definitely worth a look. -
Coping with Click-Happy AJAX Application Users
Users can be impatient while waiting for data to be returned to a page (I'll admit I'm guilty of this occasionally). Fortunately, ASP.NET AJAX makes it easy to handle cases where impatient users continually click a refresh button (or other type of button) in an ASP.NET AJAX page causing extra load to be placed on your server.
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Using the ASP.NET AJAX PageRequestManager to Provide Visual Feedback
ASP.NET AJAX provides an UpdateProgress control that greatly simplifies the process of providing users with visual feedback as asynchronous postback operations occur in AJAX applications. By using the control you can easily show an image, Flash movie, Silverlight animation, etc. while an AJAX asynchronous postback operation is in process.
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Providing Visual Feedback in AJAX Applications
I recently completed a new article for .NET Insight that discusses different ways to provide visual feedback to end users as asynchronous postback requests are made from AJAX-enabled pages. The first technique discussed is the UpdateProgress control which is extremely simple to get going and doesn't require any knowledge of JavaScript out of the box. The second technique uses the PageRequestManager client-side class to animate an UpdatePanel as a partial-page update occurs. The article and associated code can be viewed at the following URL: -
Working with UpdatePanel Properties
Awhile back I released a video that discussed working with UpdatePanel control properties such as UpdateMode and ChildrenAsTriggers. I've had several requests to make the code shown available and finally got around to doing that. Those that are interested can download the code here. If you'd like to watch the video you can view it at the link below.
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Fixing Firefox Slowness with localhost on Vista (or XP with IPv6)
I've been doing a lot of cross-browser testing lately for AJAX applications and Firefox has been killing me since it takes several seconds to load a single page when using localhost URLs on Windows Vista. Internet Explorer 7 and Safari have been blazing fast with the same pages so I finally took the time to research the issue with Firefox and came across the following information:
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New Column on ASP.NET AJAX, Web Services/WCF and Silverlight
Over the past month I've been writing articles for a new column in the .NET Insight and Web Design and Development Insight newsletters published by 1105 Media (a parent company for several media groups) that covers ASP.NET AJAX, XML Web Services/WCF, and Silverlight. The articles are designed to be very focused so that you learn things quickly without having to scroll through pages and pages of text to learn a single concept. The first 3 articles have been published and are available at the links below. Four more articles are on the way. -
DinnerNow.net Sample Application Available
