Eduardo Dias : ASP.NET

Folks Ajax - New Release, Documentation and Samples now available!

edurdias — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:58:00 GMT

The Folks Ajax Framework 0.1.0 was released, stable, refactored, documented and with new features.

This Folks' release contains a lot of changes:

Features

FolksManager - The responsible for managing the postbacks and other features. Now it isn't needed to extend the FolksPage (deprecated), turning the application model free. It's possible now to enable an entire Web Form just setting to True the CaptureAll property.
FolksContainer - Like UpdatePanel from ASP.NET Ajax. But with improvements to work in cascade (Five levels was tested succefully). It's possible to specify a progress control to display during the request.
FolksProgress - Added a progress template control.

Improvements

Rendering - The rendering process was improved to work with FolksContainer.
Client Side - The FolksManager javascript class was re-written gaining performance and removing the useless code.
jQuery Version - Updated the jQuery library version.

Samples and Documentation

The samples are available at http://folks.edurdias.com and the documentation at the project site.

More Information

http://www.codeplex.com/folks

I hope you enjoy it!

A comparison between Folks and ASP.NET Ajax

edurdias — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:34:00 GMT

A small benchmark of Folks performance against ASP.NET Ajax.

Scenario
Population a GridView with a specific number of Person { Name, Email } items.

Configuration
Running on Centrino Duo 1,67, 1GB RAM on Windows XP Pro SP2, Firefox 2 with Firebug (used to collect the response), IE6 with Fiddler to collect responses' size. The Web Form developed contains a TextBox, a Button and a GridView. The GridView was configured to show 100 records, others only with pagination (what isn't covered here).

Data
The data collected was the response (including client response) in milliseconds and payload for populate a GridView with 10, 100, 1k, 10k and 100k of items.

Result
The result is shown below (Response Time in milliseconds):

Items	Response (ms)		Bytes Sent		Bytes Received
Items	Folks	ASP.NET Ajax	Folks	ASP.NET Ajax	Folks	ASP.NET Ajax
10	15	31	1.937	1.959	4.012	4.394
100	32	109	1.938	1.960	30.688	30.893
1000	31	281	9.297	9.323	31.785	31.984
10000	46	203	9.354	9.384	31.891	32.090
100000	140	281	9.373	9.387	31.896	32.095

Conclusion
As a basic benchmark, Folks shown to be faster in all cases. If you have a comparison idea, please tell us commenting this post.

Folks Ajax Framework - New Stable Release 0.0.2

edurdias — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:14:00 GMT

The Folks Project Team has been released a new stable version (0.0.2). This release contains many speed improvements and several bug fixs.

Release changes:

Added SandBoxVB project.
Removed Library reference.
Improvements of jQuery usage.
Increased data size of Sample's GridView (40k+ elements)
Reported and unreported bug fixes.

More information about this release can be found here.

Folks - A small, simple and fast Ajax framework.

edurdias — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:44:00 GMT

The Folks Ajax Framework provides a clean, easy and fast way to build Ajax enabled web applications in .NET 2.0.

Goals

The main goal of this project is offer a easy and fast way to enable Ajax into a ASP.NET 2.0 application.

Documentation

Samples

The Folks samples are available at http://folks.edurdias.com. The examples are:

Benchmark

You can see the official benchmark here that make a comparison of Payload and Total Response Time (including the cliente response time).

More Information

More information you can find here.

I hope you enjoy it!

Eduardo

Translating a text with a MineGoogleTranslator Web Control

edurdias — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:52:00 GMT

The MineGoogleTranslator is a easy way to consume the Google Translation Service.

What is the MineGoogleTranslator?

This project catches the result of Google Translation Page and parses it through Regular Expressions. It contains three ways to consume:

A small Windows application
A Web Service
A Web Control's collection

As the MineGoogleTranslator is in development stage, its releases offer simple version of these features. Their roadmap contains features like a tray icon for the Windows Application and new Web Controls.

Using the WebControl

Add the project's reference to your project. After that you can add a control to your web page.

Note: The project contains a Web Application with a simple sample of the Web Controls usage.

Your page must include the registration for the library:

<%@ Register 
    Assembly="MineGoogleTranslator.Web" 
    Namespace="MineGoogleTranslator.Web" 
    TagPrefix="mgt" %>

After registering the assembly, you just add the Web Control and configure it like this:

<mgt:TranslatorBox id="myTranslatorBox" runat="server" OriginalText="A simple text to translate." ButtonText="Translate It!" FromLanguage="en" ToLanguage="pt"> </mgt:TranslatorBox>

All the languages available in Google Translation Page will be available here. If a language pair isn't valid, the control will throw an exception.

Note: The Web Control has an event named Translate; you can handle it to get the translation result.

And that's all, folks. Now you can add a translation service on your web site! :D

More Informations

You can find more informations about the project here.