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You’ve probably noticed that Jörn Zaefferer’s jQuery validation plugin has been gaining momentum in the ASP.NET community lately. Between Microsoft’s implied endorsement via ASP.NET MVC 2.0 integration and the plugin’s recent inclusion on the Microsoft AJAX CDN, adoption is only increasing. Unfortunately for those who don’t or can’t use ASP.NET MVC yet, using the validation [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Using jQuery validation with ASP.NET WebForms Read More...

For some reason the family of design patterns that exist around the Model View Controller pattern seem to be an elusive band of characters. The first time I encountered Model View Controller I studied the text hard trying to understand how the Strategy , Observer and Composite patterns worked together to accomplish some goal that – try as I might - remained fuzzy. Somehow I have a sense that I am not alone. Model View Controller (MVC) is the parent pattern to a number of contemporary patterns that seem to find a natural home in Microsoft development. Variations of MVC have appeared over the years in an attempt to work within the construct of modern event-driven programming models. One of most distinguishing differences among MVC and some of...

Stephen Walther , Microsoft Product Manager for ASP.NET AJAX , joins the show to discuss the recent advancements in the AJAX toolset found in Preview 6. Listen or download below! Full Speed: download Fast Version: download Just about all the details discussed in our conversation are available from the following links: Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier Entirely unobtrusive and imperative templates with Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 CodePlex Site jTemplates A Changed Landscape: ASP.NET AJAX If you are in the Southern California area and would like to see some of the latest AJAX bits in action I am giving my talk to the following user groups: Inland Empire .NET User Group 12/8/09 Orange County .NET...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released this week and one of the first things that I hope you notice is that it no longer contains the latest version of ASP.NET AJAX. What happened? Where did AJAX go? Just like Sting and The Police , just like Phil Collins Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Visual WebGui 6.4 Preview 4 was released and available for download here . This version presents an important progress as Preview 4 is the last Preview version of the 6.4 version. This means that from now on, every revision released of Visual WebGui 6.4, will only introduce stabilizations to this version and will not add new functionalities or infrastructure changes. Visual WebGui 6.4 allows to take advantage of incredibly fast application development without sacrificing the essential flexibility...( read more ) Read More...

This is an Open Letter to the Editor of CIO in response to an article posted on Computer World discussing the five problems that supposedly keep legacy applications out of the Cloud. Dear Editor, In light of your recent article about the challenges that legacy application face in migrating to the cloud, below please find a response which provides answers to 4 of the most problematic issues. We believe your readers would greatly benefit from the information, and we regret that we were not directly...( read more ) Read More...

Visual WebGui version 6.3.11 released after the R&D team had a major breakthrough with an issue that had been with us from day one of the Visual WebGui designer. The issue ( VWG-642 ) which caused the designer to get closed is now resolved and included in this version as well as in the upcoming 6.4 Preview 4 version. This means that you will have to get used to not closing the designer every now and then... The irony of it all is that all the hours spent on finding this issue resolves in simply...( read more ) Read More...

Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox, challenged the “Green IT trend” with the announcement this week that its product, Visual WebGui , has been successfully providing energy and environmental benefits to enterprises, with its solutions that dually cut costs for hardware and software. “Over the past 2 years, enterprises have been successfully using our product – Visual WebGui, and reaping the environmental and energy benefits while saving money,” said Peled. “To move the industry forward, it’s not the individual...( read more ) Read More...

Daniel Bardi, a Visual WebGui user shared his experience with the Umbraco community as he wrote in his post "...The UI is amazing and works in all known webbrowsers... it's the reason I had decided on the platform for the project (and by reading the many, many reviews). The framework allows non-web developers (or winform developers) to build web applications using a WinForms development environment. No more worries about session and state. The web applications runs on the server and is "projected...( read more ) Read More...

Last night, Scott Guthrie announced that the ASP.net team published a free tool that enables you to improve the performance of your Ajax applications by reducing the size of its JavaScript files. The new tool is named the Microsoft Ajax Minifier. You Read More......( read more ) Read More...