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Dropthings now available from Microsoft/Web
Dropthings is now available on Microsoft/Web. You can now install it using the Web Platform Installer. I will soon write an article how to make an installer that can install a ASP.NET website, a SQL Server database, setup web.config files, setup directory...
Posted: Sep 29 2010, 06:13 PM by oazabir | with no comments
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WatinN to automate browser and test sophisticated ASP.NET AJAX sites
WatiN is a great .NET library for writing automated browser based tests that uses real browser to go to websites, perform actions and check for browser output. Combined with a unit test library like xUnit , you can use WatiN to perform automated regression...
Posted: Aug 06 2010, 10:47 PM by oazabir | with no comments
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Fast Streaming Ajax Proxy with GET PUT POST DELETE
I have enhanced my streaming Ajax Proxy with POST, PUT and DELETE features. Previously it supported only GET. Now it supports all 4 popular methods for complete REST support. Using this proxy, you can call REST API on external domain directly from your...
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...
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