A sneak peak at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s client-side templating
Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET... more »
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The 8 ball problem - the test most CS people fail...
Is your mind like every one else in computer science?? or are you able to solve this small logic puzzle?? most people in computer science gets this... more »
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The Future of ASP.NET AJAX
Bertrand LeRoy recently published a 13 page document on CodePlex, describing the ASP.NET Team’s goals for the future of ASP.NET AJAX. It’s been... more »
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Using jQuery Plugins with ASP.NET
The controls found in the AjaxControlToolkit fit perfectly into the ASP.NET programming model (as to be expected). You can configure the controls... more »
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Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems
You may find it a little odd that a hack who grew up using a language with the ain't keyword would fall so head over heels in love with something as... more »
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Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater
There was some interesting discussion on Matt Berseth’s blog recently, regarding methods for building and displaying markup on the client side. Though... more »
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An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
Bill gates ranting about Microsoft's Moviemaker experience. Gates: "I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the... more »
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Foundations of Programming Ebook
I'm excitted to finally release the official, and completely free, Foundations of Programming EBook. This essentially contains all 9 Foundation parts... more »
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.NET Rocks! - F# Moves Forward
Carl and Richard talk to Don Syme, the inventor of F#, along with F# PM Luke Hoban and MS Researcher Ralf Herbrich about the future of the F#... more »
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Easily refresh an UpdatePanel, using JavaScript
I’ve noticed a lot of discussion lately regarding methods to refresh an UpdatePanel via client script. This is very easy on the server side, of... more »
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3 Mistakes to Avoid When Using jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX
Over the past few weeks, I think I have definitely embodied Jeff Atwood’s claim that we’re all amateurs, learning together. Despite my best efforts to... more »
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Dependency Injection with Unity and Linq to SQL DataContexts
Here’s a little problem I ran into trying to use Unity as part of a factory for my ASP.NET MVC controllers. I was using a simple factory pattern to... more »
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Gates' last act: frees IE 8 and Silverlight second betas
Bill Gates has announced the next betas of Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2 while outlining plans from Microsoft on development, services. He... more »
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Using jQuery to directly call ASP.NET AJAX page methods
When it comes to lightweight client-side communication, I’ve noticed that many of you prefer ASP.NET AJAX’s page methods to full ASMX web services. In... more »
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Why you should not place your whole site in an UpdatePanel
Perhaps due to its ubiquitous presence in web based email services, implementing asynchronous site navigation is frequently a design requirement when... more »
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jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service
In this post I'll show how you can use jQuery to call a WCF REST service without requiring the ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager and the client scripts that... more »
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Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC
Edsger Dijkstra had this to say about Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style... more »
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Why do ASP.NET AJAX page methods have to be static?
Dozens of variations on the title of this post are some of the most common searches that bring people here to Encosia. Unfortunately, the search... more »
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Tips to Improve Your ASP.NET Web site performance
ASP.NET has been developed with lots of features which makes developer life easy. Start from ViewState, PostBack, Server Controls , User Controls and... more »
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IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5 : Javascript Part 1
Initial look at Javascript times between IE8 and Firefox betas using Dromeao.
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, People
A brief discussion of the Rob Conery TDD backlash, and what it says about open-source on .NET, and the community at large.
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Hacking SOAP Faults into Silverlight 2 Beta 1
Silverlight 2 is pretty nice. Compared to dealing with the nightmare of HTML, CSS, AJAX and whatever else, it's quite divine. Of particular interest... more »
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ASP.NET Case Study: Hang with mixed-mode dlls
What is a managed/.net entry point you might ask... it basically means that during the loading of the assembly the assembly may call some .net... more »
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Providing a great Silverlight deployment experience
If you are doing Silverlight development, you are no doubt slapping in the tag or using the control (if in ASP.NET) to host your Silverlight... more »
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