ASP.NET AJAX Team Blogs

Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier

The ASP.NET team today released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6).  This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects.  Today’s release includes the following feature improvements: Better Imperative Syntax : A new, simplified, code syntax for creating client controls. Client Script Loader : A new client-side script loader that can dynamically load all of the JavaScript files required by a client control or library automatically, and executes the scripts in the right order. Better jQuery Integration : All...

Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN

Earlier today the ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX).  The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. What does a CDN provide? Content delivery networks (CDNs) are composed of "edge cache" servers that are strategically placed around the world at key Internet network points.  These "edge cache" servers can be used to cache and deliver all types of content – including images, videos, CSS and JavaScript files. Using a CDN can significantly improve a website's end-user performance, since it enables...

May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.  You can also now follow me on twitter ( @realscottgu ) where I also post links and small posts. ASP.NET Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls to Delete Data : Scott Mitchell continues his excellent tutorial series on the ASP.NET ListView control. In this article he discusses how to handle deleting data with it. ASP.NET ListView: Displaying Hierarchical Data : Adam Pooler writes about how to use the ASP.NET ListView control to display hierarchical data within a web page. ELMAH: Error Logging Module and Handlers for ASP.NET...

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery .  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free).  This is now available to download and use. Steps to Enable jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 To enable intellisense completion for jQuery within VS you'll want to follow three steps: Step 1: Install VS 2008 SP1 VS 2008 SP1 adds richer JavaScript intellisense support to Visual Studio, and adds code completion support for a broad range of JavaScript libraries. You can download VS 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 here . Step 2: Install VS 2008 Patch KB958502...

October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0 : Omar Al Zabir, author of the excellent Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 book , has a great article that details best practices to follow when setting up a site on IIS 6.0.  Definitely worth reading and book-marking. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Videos using VB: Bill Burrows has put together an awesome series of videos that show off how to use the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data support provided in .NET 3.5 SP1.  You can find more links to ASP.NET Dynamic Data tutorials...

jQuery and Microsoft

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code.  jQuery supports this via a nice "selector" API that allows developers to query for HTML elements, and then apply "commands" to them.  One of the characteristics of jQuery commands is that they can be "chained" together - so that the result of one command can feed into another.  jQuery also includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands.  The combination...

Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects

One of the great new features of VS 2008 is its support for framework multi-targeting .  This enables you to use VS 2008 on .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 projects, and does not require you to upgrade your projects to the latest version of the .NET Framework in order to take advantage of new Visual Studio 2008 features (like JavaScript Intellisense , JavaScript Debugging , code editing , nested master pages , and the improved web designer and CSS features - all of which work with .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 projects). ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Multi-Targeting Support VS 2008 out of the box allows you to open and edit existing ASP.NET 2.0 applications built with the separate ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 download we shipped last year.  The VS 2008 multi-targeting...

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

This week my team released updates of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit as well as the Visual Studio Web Deployment project packager.  Both of these updates are designed to work with VS 2008 and .NET 3.5. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a free download and contains more than 40 additional AJAX controls and components that work on top of the core ASP.NET AJAX functionality now built-into .NET 3.5 (and available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0).  In addition to having Microsoft developers contribute, the project also has dozens of non-Microsoft contributors adding great features and controls.  The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit update shipped this week fixes some issues that people were running...

September 23rd Links: VS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make You a More Productive Developer : Chinh Do has put together an excellent post that covers a bunch of VS 2005 Tips and Tricks that you can use immediately to optimize your developer workflow. I actually learned a few new ones reading it! Highly recommended. Multi-threaded Debugging in Visual Studio 2008 : Scott Hanselman has a quick post that shows a screen-shot of the new multi-threaded debugging features in VS 2008. ASP.NET Debugging Script: Dumping out ASP.NET Session Contents : Tess Ferrandez from the ASP.NET support...

September 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, IIS7, Visual Studio, Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Creating a User Polling System with ASP.NET 2.0 : Scott Mitchell has written a nice three-part tutorial series for www.4guysfromrolla.com that demonstrates how to implement a poll user control for ASP.NET that you can use to poll users on your site for their opinions on questions, and then display a graphical output of the poll results. Here are part 2 and part 3 of the series. Debugging Script: Dumping out Current and Recent ASP.NET Requests : Tess Ferrandez from the ASP.NET support team has an excellent post that details how to use the windbg debugger to dump out real-time...