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Windows Web Applications: Objects, Inheritance, and Mixins

Stephen Walther — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:17:33 GMT

The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create new JavaScript objects when building a Windows Web Application. You learn how to use the WinJS.Class.define(), WinJS.Class.derive(), and WinJS.Class.mix() methods. All three methods are standard methods of the WinJS library. Before we discuss these three methods, we first do a quick review [...] Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:11:55 GMT

The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create integration tests for ASP.NET MVC applications by using a combination of Selenium WebDriver and IISExpress. Integration tests are useful when you want to test an entire user story. For example, you might want to test whether a user can successfully add an item to a shopping cart. Adding an item to a shopping cart might require the execution of C# code, database code, and JavaScript code. Using an integration test, you can verify that the entire process of buying an item from your website works. Typically, an integration test is contrasted with a unit test . A unit test is used to test a unit of code in isolation. A unit test is typically used to verify the behavior of a single method...(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit November 2011 Release

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:48:29 GMT

I’m happy to announce the November 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. This release introduces a new Balloon Popup control and several enhancements to the existing Tabs control including support for on-demand loading of tab content, support for vertical tabs, and support for keyboard tab navigation. We also fixed the top-voted bugs associated with the Tabs control reported at CodePlex.com. You can download the new release by visiting the CodePlex website: http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com Alternatively, the fast and easy way to get the latest release of the Ajax Control Toolkit is to use NuGet . Open your Library Package Manager console in Visual Studio 2010 and type: After you install the Ajax Control Toolkit through NuGet, please...(read more)

ASP.NET Connections Fall 2011 Slides and Code

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:00:39 GMT

Thanks everyone who came to my talks at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas! There was a definite theme to my talks this year…taking advantage of JavaScript to build a rich presentation layer. I gave the following three talks: JsRender Templates – Originally, I was scheduled to give a talk on jQuery Templates. However, jQuery Templates has been deprecated and JsRender is the new technology which replaces jQuery Templates. In the talk, I give plenty of code samples of using JsRender. You can download the slides and code samples RIGHT HERE HTML5 – In this talk, I focused on the features of HTML5 which are the most interesting to developers building database-driven Web applications. In particular, I discussed Web Sockets, Web workers, Web Storage...(read more)

September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:28:43 GMT

I’m happy to announce the release of the September 2011 Ajax Control Toolkit. This release has several important new features including: Date ranges – When using the Calendar extender, you can specify a start and end date and a user can pick only those dates which fall within the specified range. This was the fourth top-voted feature request for the Ajax Control Toolkit at CodePlex. Twitter Control – You can use the new Twitter control to display recent tweets associated with a particular Twitter user or tweets which match a search query. Gravatar Control – You can use the new Gravatar control to display a unique image for each user of your website. Users can upload custom images to the Gravatar.com website or the Gravatar control can display...(read more)

New Tools and New Content - ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview (with commentary)

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET Ajax — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:22:59 GMT

While all of you Build attendees are making me feel bad because you have a fancy Tablet and I don't (sell me yours!) the folks over here in the "Angle Brackets Team" (I'm trying out some new names. One will stick.) have been busy. Here is a summary of all the items from our team that have been announced and shown at Build this week, all of this will be publicly available today (9/16) along with a some narrative and asides from yours truly. They are listening One of the things I am am personally enjoying in working daily with this build of Visual Studio is that there's dozens (hundreds) of little "mental speed bumps" that are smoothed over. A lot of thought was put into workflow and common scenarios in order to...(read more)

Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET Ajax — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:59:16 GMT

Browser version numbers continue to march on. IE9 is here, IE10 is coming , Firefox 5 and 6 are here with 7 and 8 in the wings , Opera's on 11, and Chrome is on, I dunno, somewhere between 14 and 50. Regardless, we'll all be on version 99 before The Singularity. There is a bug in the browser definition files that shipped with .NET 2.0 and .NET 4, namely that they contain definitions for a certain range of browser versions. But the versions for some browsers (like IE 10) aren't within those ranges any more. Therefore, ASP.NET sees them as unknown browsers and defaults to a down-level definition, which has certain inconveniences, like that it does not support features like JavaScript. If you want to see this for yourself, create a...(read more)

Adding the New HTML Editor Extender to a Web Forms Application using NuGet

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:29:19 GMT

The July 2011 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit includes a new, lightweight, HTML5 compatible HTML Editor extender. In this blog entry, I explain how you can take advantage of NuGet to quickly add the new HTML Editor control extender to a new or existing ASP.NET Web Forms application. Installing the Latest Version of the Ajax Control Toolkit with NuGet NuGet is a package manager. It enables you to quickly install new software directly from within Visual Studio 2010. You can use NuGet to install additional software when building any type of .NET application including ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. If you have not already installed NuGet then you can install NuGet by navigating to the following address and clicking the giant...(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release - Now on NuGet

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET Ajax — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:31:13 GMT

Say what you will about the Ajax Control Toolkit. Some like it, some don't, but it got 1.15 MILLION downloads last year. Is the ACT dead? Not yet, and there's ongoing work around WebForms, jQuery and an ACT style of programming. More on this soon. There's like 40 different controls in the Ajax Control Toolkit. They continue to be updated and have cross-browser support. The first release this year added IE9 support. This new July 2011 release adds a a new HTML Editor and more complete browser support including (from Stephen Walther's blog): The HTML Editor Extender works on all modern browsers including the most recent versions of Mozilla Firefox (Firefox 5), Google Chrome (Chrome 12), and Apple Safari (Safari 5). Furthermore...(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:37:15 GMT

I’m happy to announce the July 2011 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit which includes important bug fixes and a completely new HTML Editor Extender control. You can download the July 2011 Release by visiting the Ajax Control Toolkit CodePlex site at: http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com Using the New HTML Editor Extender Control You can use the new HTML Editor Extender to extend any standard ASP.NET TextBox control so that it supports rich formatting such as bold, italics, bulleted lists, numbered lists, typefaces and different foreground and background colors. The following code illustrates how you can extend a standard ASP.NET TextBox control with the HtmlEditorExtender: <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"...(read more)

NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

Scott Hanselman - ASP.NET Ajax — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:36:32 GMT

I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse , an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH , and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler , my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting "System.Web.Providers" as #8, so phooey. ;) Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.4, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.4 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is...(read more)

Sample Code and Slides from DevConnection Germany

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:06:29 GMT

Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQuery templates when building both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. I demonstrate several advanced features of templates such as wrapped templates and remote templates. Download the slides Download the code HTML5 In this talk, I discuss the features of HTML5 which matter most when building database-driven web applications. I demonstrate WebSockets, Web Workers, Web Storage, IndexedDB, and Offline Web Applications. Download the slides Download the code jQuery + OData In this talk,...(read more)

Creating Custom Ajax Control Toolkit Controls

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:45:42 GMT

The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can extend the Ajax Control Toolkit with custom Ajax Control Toolkit controls. I describe how you can create the two halves of an Ajax Control Toolkit control: the server-side control extender and the client-side control behavior. Finally, I explain how you can use the new Ajax Control Toolkit control in a Web Forms page. At the end of this blog entry, there is a link to download a Visual Studio 2010 solution which contains the code for two Ajax Control Toolkit controls: SampleExtender and PopupHelpExtender. The SampleExtender contains the minimum skeleton for creating a new Ajax Control Toolkit control. You can use the SampleExtender as a starting point for your custom Ajax Control Toolkit controls...(read more)

Install the Ajax Control Toolkit from NuGet

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:30:02 GMT

The Ajax Control Toolkit is now available from NuGet. This makes it super easy to add the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit to any Web Forms application. If you haven’t used NuGet yet, then you are missing out on a great tool which you can use with Visual Studio to add new features to an application. You can use NuGet with both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. NuGet is compatible with both Websites and Web Applications and it works with both C# and VB.NET applications. For example, I habitually use NuGet to add the latest version of ELMAH, Entity Framework, jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Templates to applications that I create. To download NuGet, visit the NuGet website at: http://NuGet.org Imagine, for example, that you...(read more)

May 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:46:16 GMT

I’m happy to announce that the Superexpert team has published the May 2011 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit at CodePlex. You can download the new release at the following URL: http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/65800 This release focused on improving the ModalPopup and AsyncFileUpload controls. Our team closed a total of 34 bugs related to the ModalPopup and AsyncFileUpload controls. Enhanced ModalPopup Control You can take advantage of the Ajax Control Toolkit ModalPopup control to easily create popup dialogs in your ASP.NET Web Forms applications. When the dialog appears, you cannot interact with any page content which appears behind the modal dialog. For example, the following page contains a standard ASP.NET Button and...(read more)