aspnet-ajax

June 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:22:54 GMT

I’m happy to announce the June 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. For this release, we enhanced the AjaxFileUpload control to support uploading files directly to Windows Azure. We also improved the SlideShow control by adding support for CSS3 animations. You can get the latest release of the Ajax Control Toolkit by visiting the [...] Read More......(read more)

Good Book for Learning Meteor: Discover Meteor

Stephen Walther — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:33:40 GMT

A week or so ago, Sacha Greif asked me whether I would be willing to write a review of his new book on Meteor (published today) entitled Discover Meteor. Sacha wrote the book with Tom Coleman. Both Sacha and Tom are very active in the Meteor community – they are responsible for several well-known Meteor [...] Read More......(read more)

April 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:14:44 GMT

I’m excited to announce the April 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. For this release, we focused on improving two controls: the AjaxFileUpload and the MaskedEdit controls. You can download the latest release from CodePlex at http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com or, better yet, you can execute the following NuGet command within Visual Studio 2010/2012: There are three [...] Read More......(read more)

An Introduction to Meteor

Stephen Walther — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:37:24 GMT

The goal of this blog post is to give you a brief introduction to Meteor which is a framework for building Single Page Apps. In this blog entry, I provide a walkthrough of building a simple Movie database app. What is special about Meteor? Meteor has two jaw-dropping features: Live HTML – If you make [...] Read More......(read more)

Security Issues with Single Page Apps

Stephen Walther — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:21:47 GMT

Last week, I was asked to do a code review of a Single Page App built using the ASP.NET Web API, Durandal, and Knockout (good stuff!). In particular, I was asked to investigate whether there any special security issues associated with building a Single Page App which are not present in the case of a [...] Read More......(read more)

Using Durandal to Create Single Page Apps

Stephen Walther — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:15:57 GMT

A few days ago, I gave a talk on building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. In that talk, I recommended that people use Knockout, Sammy, and RequireJS to build their presentation layer and use the ASP.NET Web API to expose data from their server. After I gave the talk, several people contacted me [...] Read More......(read more)

Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack

Stephen Walther — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:07:23 GMT

Thank you everyone who came to my talk last night on Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. I’ve attached the slides and code samples below. Here’s a quick summary of the talk. I argued that Single Page Apps are better than traditional Server Side Apps because: Single Page Apps are Stateful – In [...] Read More......(read more)

New January 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:40:37 GMT

I am super excited to announce the January 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit! I have one word to describe this release and that word is “Charts” – we’ve added lots of great new chart controls to the Ajax Control Toolkit. You can download the new release directly from http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com – or, just fire [...] Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate)

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET Ajax — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:06:42 GMT

I've talked before in presentations that the ASP.NET and Web Tools team has been slowly externalizing pieces of ASP.NET. You've seen it in many pieces of the ASP.NET runtime moving into NuGet while also being open sourced , and you've seen it as we've moved big chunks of the "tooling" (that means the menus and dialogs you interact with in ASP.NET) into external installers. Why are we doing this? Because the Web moves faster than Visual Studio does. We want to be able to offer a stable ASP.NET core that you can count on while being able to offer new and powerful features more often as needed. Visual Studio itself has moved to a faster update model and recently released Visual Studio 2012.1 (that's Visual Studio 2012...(read more)

Windows 8 Apps Unleashed Now in Bookstores!

Stephen Walther — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:20:22 GMT

My book Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed is now in bookstores! Learn how to create Metro apps Windows 8 apps with JavaScript. And the book is in color! All of the code listings and illustrations are in color. Why build Windows 8 apps? When you create a Windows 8 app, you can [...] Read More......(read more)

My Windows 8 App in Windows Store

Stephen Walther — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:18:03 GMT

Finally, you have a good reason to upgrade to Windows 8! My Brain Eaters app was just accepted into the Windows Store. Just in time for Halloween! The Brain Eaters app is a sample app from my soon to be released book Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. The game illustrates several important programming [...] Read More......(read more)

Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Stephen Walther — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:20:07 GMT

Last week, I finished writing Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript – Yikes! That is a long title. This book is all about writing apps for Windows 8 which can be added to the Windows Store. The book focuses on building apps using HTML5 and JavaScript. If you are already comfortable building websites, then [...] Read More......(read more)

Seattle GiveCamp this Weekend

Stephen Walther — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:43:38 GMT

Seattle GiveCamp is this weekend (October 19, 2012) on the Microsoft Campus. Donate your time and your programming skills to build software applications (mainly websites) for charities. We need you! Go to the following address and sign up to participate right now: http://seattlegivecamp.com/ We have more than 20 charities participating in this year’s GiveCamp and [...] Read More......(read more)

September 2012 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:48:37 GMT

I’m excited to announce the September 2012 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit! This is the first release of the Ajax Control Toolkit which supports the .NET 4.5 framework. We also continue to support ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET 4.0. With this release, we’ve made several important bug fixes. The Superexpert team focused on fixing the [...] Read More......(read more)

Scrum in 5 Minutes

Stephen Walther — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:49:01 GMT

The goal of this blog entry is to explain the basic concepts of Scrum in less than five minutes. You learn how Scrum can help a team of developers to successfully complete a complex software project. Product Backlog and the Product Owner Imagine that you are part of a team which needs to create a [...] Read More......(read more)