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7 tips for for loading Javascript rich Web 2.0-like sites significantly faster
You must have noticed Microsoft’s new tool Doloto which helps solve the following problem: Modern Web 2.0 applications, such as GMail, Live Maps, Facebook and many others, use a combination of Dynamic HTML, JavaScript and other Web browser technologies...
ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test
Visual Studio 2008 comes with rich Web Testing support, but it’s not rich enough to test highly dynamic AJAX websites where the page content is generated dynamically from database and the same page output changes very frequently based on some external...
Posted: Jun 14 2009, 12:41 AM by oazabir | with 1 comment(s)
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Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity
Dropthings – my open source Web 2.0 Ajax Portal has gone through a technology overhauling. Previously it was built using ASP.NET AJAX, a little bit of Workflow Foundation and Linq to SQL. Now Dropthings boasts full jQuery front-end combined with ASP.NET...
Posted: Apr 09 2009, 01:32 AM by oazabir | with 1 comment(s)
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How to convince developers and management to use automated unit test for AJAX websites
Everyone agrees that unit testing is a good thing, we should all write unit tests. We read articles and blogs to keep us up-to-date on what’s going on in the unit test world so that we can sound cool talking to peers at lunch. But when we really sit down...
Create REST API using ASP.NET MVC that speaks both Json and plain Xml
ASP.NET MVC Controllers can directly return objects and collections, without rendering a view, which makes it quite appealing for creating REST like API. The nice extensionless Url provided by MVC makes it handy to build REST services, which means you...
Posted: Oct 03 2008, 11:09 PM by oazabir | with 9 comment(s)
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Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved
Last week I released a new version of Dropthings , my open source AJAX portal, that shows many fancy Web 2.0 features and showcases extensive use of ASP.NET 3.5, Workflow Foundation, C# 3.0 new language features, custom ASP.NET AJAX extenders, many performance...
Posted: Jul 15 2008, 01:15 AM by oazabir | with 7 comment(s)
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ensure - Ensure relevant Javascript and HTML are loaded before using them
ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from...
UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined
UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript...
Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch
A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes...
Fast, Streaming AJAX proxy - continuously download from cross domain
Due to browser's prohibition on cross domain XMLHTTP call, all AJAX websites must have server side proxy to fetch content from external domain like Flickr or Digg. From client side javascript code, an XMLHTTP call goes to the server side proxy hosted...
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