ASP.NET AJAX

JS Intellisense in Orcas

Joel Rumerman — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:43:00 GMT

It’s finally here!!

JavaScript intellisense is available in the March 2007 CTP of Orcas (the next Visual Studio). It works well with plain old JavaScript, but it really shines with ASP.NET AJAX.

Jeff King does a good job of documenting the new capabilities in this blog entry.

For us ASP.NET Server Control developers that utilize client capabilities, this is a huge boon for us. When was the last time JS intellisense was updated?? Anybody? I have no idea… I don’t think it’s changed since the first release of Visual Studio. Having to program ASP.NET AJAX client runtimes with intellisense … AWESOME!!!

Also, I mentioned an excellent article in my webcast that describes the prototype/closure model. I finally found it… here it is.

IMHO, it’s the single best article that describes closures available.

ASP.NET AJAX Client Component Development WebCast

Joel Rumerman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:08:00 GMT

Hello Everyone,

Thanks so much for attending today’s webcast! We had 150+ attend and this is just a testament to how important and interesting a subject MS ASP.NET AJAX is.

As promised, here is the source code from today’s webcast. This is free source code, no limits on modifications, re-use, redeployment to clients, etc. I don’t even have my name in it yet.

I will add however, that the component that is supplied in this source code only works in certain situations. Try sticking a button you want to disable within an UpdatePanel and see what happens. It’ll work the first time, but in subsequent partial postbacks. There’s another, longer version of the source code that I’m working on that is more fully-baked that can be reused successfully across web applications and in different scenarios.

Again, thanks for joining me today on the webcast. I hope you enjoyed it and learned something interesting! Stay tuned for more webcasts regarding ASP.NET AJAX custom development. I think I’m going to put a couple of more in the pipeline.

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February SD .NET Developers Group Talk on ASP.NET AJAX Component Creation

Joel Rumerman — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone that attended the meeting and heard my talk about ASP.NET AJAX Component Development. We had a great time hosting and I hope it sparked some interest in ASP.NET AJAX Component development and that you were able to learn something new.

Here are the slides and code from my presentation. I’m not attaching the postback disabler control at the moment (the last thing I demoed at the meeting) as it’s not ready to go yet and I think I’ll blog more in-depth about it in the next few weeks.

Happy coding, and thanks for attending!!

File Attachment: ASP.NET AJAX Component Development.ppt (745 KB)

File Attachment: DemoAJAXWebsite.zip (22 KB)