Contents tagged with ASP.NET

  • Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?

    I've been working a bit with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (bit of a mouthful, isn't it?) recently. The toolkit consists mostly of a set of extender controls. In ASP.NET AJAX lingo, an extender is a control that attaches AJAX-y functionality to an existing ASP.NET server control. Each instance of an ASP.NET AJAX extender control is associated with a single instance of an ASP.NET server control through its TargetControlID property.

  • First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1

    I spent a little time this morning looking over documentation for the new MSAjax Beta 1 bits. Although it's great to see the product moving forward toward release, my first reaction is a bit of disappointment.

  • Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?

    For some time, I've been following the Atlas framework (now ASP.NET Ajax) with great interest. The ASP.NET team has proven to be one of the most agile at Microsoft lately, and with Atlas it seemed that they were continuing that trend. Regular CTP drops were being released, the open source-y goodness of the Atlas Control Toolkit was announced, and things seemed to be moving along well.

  • Patching Atlas bugs

    One of the downsides to working with early beta software is that it has bugs. Atlas is no exception. So what happens when you encounter one of those bugs? Well, the Atlas team has been good enough to provide us with the source to the Javascript library, so if the bug is there we can in theory patch in a fix ourselves. I found myself in this situation when I encountered a bug in the way client-side Actions handle data binding. Fixing the bug in the source was relatively simple.