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Reducing page load times with UpdatePanels and timers
Monday, April 07, 2008 11:18 PM

I have demo'ed this technique before and talked about it various times, but I recently used this on another engagement which really helped alleviate some of the initial page load times and size. In my scenario, we had a page utilising the AJAX Control toolkit and which utilised the excellent Tab control to contain a number of separate display elements. The page... Read More...

by Glav | 26 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, podcast, ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX Control toolkit

AJAX Control toolkit and TFS Presentations
Monday, October 29, 2007 4:41 PM

Tuesday 30th October and Wednesday 31st October, I am doing a presentation on the AJAX Control Toolkit . It is part of the readify developer network series of presentations. I am doing a primer presentation which is more introductory and runs for a relatively short period of time. Chris Burrows will then follow through with a Team Foundation server related presentation... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Controls, Web 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, Control Toolkit, AJAX Control toolkit

Obscure ASP.NET Problem - AJAX Control Toolkit, CollapsiblePanelExtender, Image controls pages loading more than once....
Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:05 PM

Had an issue on a current project where a page was being loaded twice for each request, although it was a little different for each browser. Under IE, this particular page was loaded, then the 'Default.aspx' page in the same directory was loaded. In Firefox, the same page was loaded twice. This was verified by simply placing breakpoints in the Page_Load events... Read More...

by Glav | 19 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, Web 2.0, General, ASP.NET AJAX, Control Toolkit, Performance, AJAX Control toolkit

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Book is out!
Friday, July 13, 2007 1:12 PM

The past year or so I have been working with a number of excellent co-authors on another book called Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX and as you can imagine, is solely devoted to the topic of the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions . Well its out and you can go and grab yourself a copy . You probably want at least 2, perhaps 3 or 4. If you can tear yourself away... Read More...

by Glav | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, Web 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, Extender Controls, Control Toolkit, Windows, AJAX Control toolkit

Another reason to use the AJAX Control Toolkit
Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:43 PM

Apart from the long list of great, free controls in the AJAX Control toolkit , there are numerous other reasons to use the toolkit. One of which is the great support functions that come with the toolkit. One I had to use recently allowed me to figure out the width of an elements border and easily deduce the content size within the element for some tricky positioning... Read More...

by Glav | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Web 2.0, AJAX Control toolkit