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AJAX has been very popular over the past few years, but I've seen it primarily used by developers to reduce page refreshes and to do background data-loading. Both of these uses are great uses of the technology, but one of the features that I like the best is the ability to do Drag-and-Drop functions. Users have gotten accustom to this feature since it has been available in Desktop Applications for what seems like forever, but web developers have steered away from it because of the time/complexity it takes to enable it using older technologies. Well, Jeff Prosise has written a very short article on how to enable this with ASP.NET AJAX. His a synopsis from Jeff: For months now, I've been meaning to write a sample showing...
If you are an ASP.NET developer and have either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 and want to learn how to build web applications using AJAX, then this is the site for you. The Microsoft ASP.NET team has made available about 30 videos (ranging from 3 minutes to 30 minutes) that show to use most if not all of the ASP.NET AJAX controls. Here's a link to the full list of videos: ( Click here to view them ) Here's a sample of a few of them (see below): #1 | How Do I: Get Started with ASP.NET AJAX? 7 minutes, 51 seconds #2 | How Do I: Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit? 11 minutes, 15 seconds #3 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown Control Extender? 27 minutes, 56 seconds #4 | How Do I: Implement Dynamic...
Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe). I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA "issues" it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted frameworks Within VS2008, the IDE gives you a choice of working with the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 framework Which means that I don't have to have Visual Studio 2005 (for backward compatibility) and Visual Studio 2008 installed to get the new features The ability to switch frameworks overtime, so that I can start with .NET 2.0, for example, and as my company/customer approves .NET 3.0/3.5, I can switch my project to...
This question came up at the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK. I'm trying to answer all customer questions like this via my blog so everyone has the benefit of the answer. There are a number of ways to do it, but my favorite (because it so darn easy) is to use an ASP.NET AJAX control extender Dan Wahlin built. I love reusable controls that make common tasks easier:). The details and download for the extender is here . - Marc Read More...
Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will be made available eventually) SQL Server Express ASP.NET 2.0 (Including ASP.NET AJAX 1.0) Full Trust Shared AppPool 100 MB disk space Free through January 2010 So what do you have to do to get it? Just call 800-932-7483. No credit card is required. The offer is not available online. You need to call the toll free number. I just signed up myself! The process was pretty quick and painless. I haven't actually tried using it yet. That's next:). - Marc Read More...
You might want to entertain attending even if you've seen me present this one before. I will be showing new Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 features like LinqDataSource, improved design time experience for ASP.NET AJAX extender controls, AJAX Web Part drag and drop, and anything else I find between now and then:). This session will cover some of the great new features that will be coming soon with Visual Studio "Orcas" & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures. Learn how web development with .NET will continue to improve and evolve, and talk about some of the upcoming features and how best to use them. We will be covering: Targeting a specific version of the .NET Framework (2.0, 3.0, 3.5) The new ASP.NET page designer (split view, CSS and improved layout...
July 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Building Powerful Composite Applications with IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite More and more enterprises are adopting composite applications as a means to create unique blends of internal data and external services. This webcast will inform the Microsoft developer community about the capabilities of the IDV Solutions Visual Fusion (VF) Suite of products for quickly creating compelling map-based composite applications. A quick start solution will be created from scratch leveraging Virtual Earth, MOSS 2007 lists and excel spreadsheets as internal data stores, and publicly available GeoRSS feeds and web mapping services (WMS) as external services. This will demonstrate the speed and ease with which...
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It's been a while since I've done a screencast. I get quite a few "How Do I?" questions in my inbox from customers. Quite often, the initial answer to your question is "I don't know." When that's the case, it gives me the excuse to try it out:). I am trying to get better at sharing the answers with everyone via the blog. Father time isn't always on my side though:(. After one of our Developer Conferences, someone asked me how to implement a specific master details scenario with tabs using ASP.NET AJAX. Although I knew what they were asking was possible, I couldn't quite explain it. I hadn't done it myself. So I built it! I recorded a screencast walking through how to do it. The screencast is here . The sample code is here . -Marc Read More....
As promised, you can get my decks and demos from www.publicsectordeveloper.com ( direct link ). The demos are "as-is" but feel free to let me know if something doesn't work anymore. A more detailed explanation of the WPF deck and demos can be found here . If you are interested in WPF, then don't forget to check out the WPF Wiki . UPDATE: I received an email from a few folks who were having trouble figuring out what to download for my Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX presentation. The direct link to the deck is here . The code is here . -Marc Read More...
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