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Via Tim Heuer blog, I discovered this cool video of Surface in action. I am amaze by the relatively simple code to produce such incredibel effects.

Simply put, a Page Method is a page specific WebMethod.  Instead of creating a full web service for your method, you can conveniently create a method in your page and use it from client-script.  Let's look at how simple it is to use them...

This excellent post will show you all the css required to customize the different parts of the excellent TabContaine Ajax control.

In this article Nidal Arabi examines the usage of a SQL Server 2008 feature named Merge statement. It is a new T-SQL Statement that allows you to perform join of tables and then apply one of three different operations on the result set. He demonstrates the concepts with the help of step-by-step explanations accompanied by relevant SQL statements.

In this article Joe Maguire will explain how you can easily create an AJAX enabled web site within Visual Studio 2005 utilizing C# and how to utilize the AJAX framework to add a simple control from the list of controls available in the AJAX Control Toolkit.
The AJAX control we will be working with in this article will be the “Slider” control. We will also learn that the Slider control can be manipulated via its properties to display horizontal or vertical as well as allowing you to have incremental steps or a smooth non-step motion.

Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast.
 
Our next speaker is Dino Esposito, with a talk on AJAX Data Binding.
 
Dino is the author of Programming ASP.NET 3.5 Core Reference (Microsoft Press, 2008) and other best-selling books such as Introducing ASP.NET AJAX (Microsoft Press, 2007) and Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications-Advanced Topics (Microsoft Press, 2006). He's also the author of the "Cutting Edge" column on MSDN Magazine and a frequent speaker at industry events worldwide, including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections and in Europe, DevWeek and Basta.

ASP.NET AJAX excels at connecting client code with remote services, but it doesn't provide just as yet an as much excellent mechanism to consume downloaded data within the client browser.

No doubts that this aspect of AJAX programming will be greatly improved in the near future; however, for the time being, ASP.NET AJAX doesn't offer a UI model as rich and well done as the server-side service model. In this webcast, dino will discuss client-side templates and data binding for an effective and JavaScript-powered consumption of server data.

This will be broadcast live on Tuesday 9th of September at 11:00 (Irish time!)