ASP.NET AJAX Team Blogs

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 "SP1" Beta

VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 offer a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.  The service pack we have been working on to round out this release adds even more new value in addition to fixing a 100s of customer reported bugs!  All of it is driven by customer asks and I am excited about how we have begun to embrace a model of providing great customer value on a very regular cadence.  Omar Khan and I recently recorded a DotNetRocks episode where we talked about all these great things.  I thought it would be fun to list just a few of my personal favorite new features in this SP...   What is your favorite one?    For Web Developers: - ASP.NET Dynamic Data makes building data driven web applications...

I'm now officially a slacker

Well, at least a Dot Net Slacker ... My first article on DotNetSlackers just got published. It shows how to handle the back button with ASP.NET Ajax using pure server code. Check it out (registration required): http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/HandlingTheBackButtonFromServerCode.aspx Read More...

Screencast: how to enable server-side history management in an ASP.NET Ajax application

I've recently recorded a screencast showing how to enable server-side history management (in other words, handling the back button) in an ASP.NET Ajax application. The whole video is less than 15 minutes total and I build the whole application from scratch in there (in VB). I hope it shows just how simple history management is made by ASP.NET Ajax and that it helps understanding the state model that it's built on. The same video in a variety of formats and in a resolution where the code is actually readable can be found here: http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/ For those people who find it difficult to cut and paste code from a video by doing a screen capture and then using OCR over it, here's the source code of the mini-app that's...