So AJAX ASP.NET Beta 2 is released. If you are using the AJAX Control toolkit, you will want to grab the latest release set so that it works properly with Beta 2, otherwise, as soon as you install Beta 2, the toolkit will break. Hint: The current release branch of the toolkit works with Beta 2, but if you hold off a little bit, the dev branch will ...

I updated my site http://beta.devtrain.de to use the newest AJAX B2 bits. Everything works fine on my machine and i deployed the ASP.NET App to the Web Server (windows 2003). Result: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. ...

Garbin has a great post that explains the possibility of creating a strongly typed collection in JavaScript. It’s very easy to read, and ends up with this sample code. This is all accomplished with a Function._validateParams that is built into the core library. It’s a nice short read, that explains the features very nicely.function ...

Today two of the products I have spent a bunch of time ship! .NET Framework 3.0 ships! With the 3.0 version of the .NET Framework I can look forward to the day when every application will offer compelling user experiences that that fuse the seamless, immersive nature of TV with the power and productivity of windows applications. These applications ...

I had a great time putting together the slides and demo for this talk… It should be fun one where I show off how developers and designers can work together to build a compelling web site…. As part of this I will be showing Expression Web and of course, some cool new stuff in ASP.NET AJAX Beta2! If you are in at the show, please come by DEV351 ...

Looks like the dates and venue for Mix07 have been announced. Mix07 will be in Las Vegas at The Venetian hotel on April 30 – May 2, 2007. My team has been working on some fun stuff for Mix07… If you are a web designer, developer or BDM, you will not want to miss it! Subscribe to the blog and start saving your pennies.. looks like registration will ...

Yesterday, the ASP.NET team released beta 2 of the Microsoft AJAX Library. You can download it at http://ajax.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=47.

Thanks for coming.. I had a great time during the presentation.. I took most of the time during the session to build up this site… In the attached zip you can find a complete demo script, you can find the slides on an earlier post... The demo requires Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX… Please let me know what you think!

Mashups are very popular words these days. Take an example of a very popular mashup – Meebo 1. Meebo allows you, through a web browser,to logon to all of your IM accounts and chat with people. Browsers, in general, do not allow a script to make network connections to servers other than the one the web page originally came from. To work ...

Wow! Don't you just love it when new developer tools hit all at oncelike an avalanche?Gohere and feast your eyes on today's goodies. These include a new drop of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, new VS 2005 extensions for .NET 3.0 and SharePoint Services 3.0, VSTO 2005SE, and of course .NET 3.0 itself.Okay, I'm grateful for broadband satellite ...

Posted at Ardent Dev by Derek Hatchard (Go directly to post): I'm pleased to announce that Mike Mullen and I have launched a new developer-oriented podcast / netcast. The first show just went up a few hours ago: Show notes for the nameless developer podcast Download the MP3 Until we come up with a catchy name, the shows are being posted at ...

I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as using tools like Fiddler and others... Scenario: A ...

It's easy to create runtime errors in JavaScript. But it's not every day you find a way to crash the runtime entirely.It looks so innocent, yet it is so delightfully evil... copy/paste this into a simple HTML file and open it.html>head> script type="text/javascript"> function appendToBody() { var span = ...

= (images.imageCount * 1000) + 'px'; images.style.left = '0px'; images.visibleIndex = 0; toggleButtonVisibility..._startValue(parseInt(images.style.left)); animation.set_endValue(images.visibleIndex * -1000); } /script>

Cross posted from: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/11/01/470.aspxIs AJAX really AJAX? The answer, like many other things, is “It Depends.” The AJAX acronym states that the X is for XML. I can’t speak for all frameworks, but some frameworks use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for some amount of their data ...

The folks over at ComponentArt have started blogging. According to the dates of posts, the blog just went up today. The address for their blog is: http://blogs.componentart.com/. Their first big post seems to be http://blogs.componentart.com/miljan/archive/2006/10/31/ASP.NET-AJAX-Beta-1-and-ComponentArt-Web.UI.aspx where Miljan talks about ASP.NET ...

Come join NDDNUG and meet the original creator of ASP.NET - Scott Guthrie! A few times a year, NDDNUG puts on a really big free event featuring in-depth technical content from top-notch industry experts. This year, we’re featuring a speaker who you usually only get to see during keynotes at major conferences - Microsoft's own Scott ...

The developer for UpdatePanel recently posted a couple of good articles about the changes we made in the most recent Beta… Enjoy! What's up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works? This is a higher level piece that explains how UpdatePanel changed from being automatic (and broken) in the CTP to the new functionality in the beta. HOWTO: Write ...

The Beta 1 Editon of Active Server Pages DOT NET Asynchronous Java Script And XML Java Script Object Notation (ASP.NET AJAX JSON) have changed the serialization of variables type data. The Christmas date 2000 will be included ina JSON String like {''name'':''Hannes'',''gebdat'':''@977612400000@''} I have no idea why and also no idea how to get the ...

The UpdatePanel and the asynchronous postback support a new client side side page lifecycle. I've been going through this over the past couple of days. Its pretty interesting stuff. For More Info: http://ajax.asp.net/docs/tutorials/usingMsAjaxLibrary/default.aspx.