Joel Varty

This can be a major time saver when you want to find some text and perhaps duplicate it or manipulate it throughout a bunch of files in your project.

This is almost embarrassing.  I have spent the last hour or so trying to get Word 2007 to upload my images to my blog here.  I use Word for most of my day-to-day document editing (and for the book I am currently working on), so I really wanted it to work.

In my last post we talked the limitations of AJAX and especially the UpdatePanel as you get into more complicated situations. In this post I am going to explore one of the ways that you can avoid an overly complicated Control tree on the server and simply the HTML DOM on the browser side. This approach involves combining UpdatePanel with IFrames.

I have had the unique pleasure of dealing with this conundrum countless times of the past eight years while architecting applications that operate in various web server and browser environments.  The notion of a “rich client” experience has always been balanced with the capabilities of the client environment and the programming prowess of the developers.  At one point it was java applets that allowed us to do client to networking calls back to the server without reloading the current webpage.  Various other experimentation saw folks using hidden frames, xml data islands in IE and I’m sure a whole lot of other stuff.