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There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious. MVC...
Looking for an ASP.NET AJAX book? This one has been massively updated from its 2.0 version, to cover in detail the features added in 3.5, and not to be forgotten, 3.5 SP1. For example, Script Combining was a new feature in 3.5 SP1, and so was History...
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I ran into an interesting and unexpected behavior in ASP.NET AJAX event handling the other day. Once I figured out what was going on, I was almost positive it was a bug, so I started looking into what a solution would be. But just out of curiosity, I...
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First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there , or there , or there , and let us know what you think and what you like or don't like...
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Lately I've been using a laptop more often than a desktop to work in Visual Studio, and of course like most laptop keyboards, the keys are jammed close together. The most annoying thing I keep doing by mistake is hitting F1 instead of Escape, which of...
UPDATE This issue is officially fixed in .NET 3.5 SP1. If you have applied the workaround in this blog post, you no longer need it. But the story of this bug is still rather interesting. UPDATE If you upgrade from Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0...
Many of the comments I've received in the various dynamic controls entries I've written have been questions for help with a specific scenario. A lot of those scenarios are similar. One in particular I keep hearing is something as follows: The user is...
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I get this question a lot for some reason. The more general question is whether it is better to override a virtual method on the page or control in question (OnLoad, OnInit, OnPreRender, etc), or to hook into the corresponding event . For page development...
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A long time ago I published one of my first blog entries, TRULY Understanding ViewState . And what an experience it has been. It was pretty popular with commenters, so much so I decided to spin off a whole series of articles, TRULY Understanding Dynamic...
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Still relatively unknown, ASP.NET Futures is a nice little add-on to ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX that contains some features we want public feedback on. It's a playground in which technology gets to frolic in front of the public's (your) eyes. So why not...
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