ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Just a quick post to highlight a few cool ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 related downloads that have been posted over the last few days:

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Documentation Available for Download:

The ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Documentation can now be easily downloaded for offline usage.

You can download and install your own copy of the docs here.  You can also browse all of the documentation and run all of the samples online at the http://ajax.asp.net web-site.

Cool ASP.NET AJAX Control to easily enable Back / Forward Button Support with AJAX:

Nikhil has updated his cool "UpdateHistory" control for the final ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release (I first blogged about it in this old post).  This control enables developers to modify the browser's history stack - which enables AJAX integration with the back/forward buttons in the browser.  It also enables you to implement Unique URLs for bookmarking in AJAX applications.

Nikhil also includes two new controls he built as part of the package - including a nice AnimatedUpdatePanel control that displays new content retrieved using the UpdatePanel with a variety of animations, as well as a CSS StyledUpdatePanel control that adds additional CSS customization semantics.  You can watch a video of how to use these controls here on Channel9.

You can then download the source + binaries for the controls from Nikhil's web-site here.

Hope this helps,

Scott
Published Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:45 AM by ScottGu
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Comments

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:47 AM by Steve

Nikhil always comes in with the goods.

I'd like to know how the Script# is doing in regards to creating controls for the toolkits?

Great job as always Nikhil!

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:47 AM by Mike

Although it's good to see this, I believe that the need for back button support points to a weakness in Ajax. I first started thinking about this when I notices Opera 9 will restore the last known DOM of a webpage when you browse back.

We have had a back button for the last 15 years, what happened to it? I think it's not a good idea  to use Ajax for navigation. Perhaps this issue is worthy of an article?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:08 PM by Eugenio Estrada Csaky

Thanks Scott for publish that :)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:58 PM by vikram

yes, Briliant work by Nikhil. I really love his work with Javascript

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:05 AM by Chris

I've been looking at the AJAX control tool kit and i've noticed that there appears to be next to no XML commenting in the code. We have a policy of always generating XML document files for our projects and treating warnings as errors. When we use the tool kit in our environment a lot of errors are generated, is there any plan for future releases to be fully XML documented?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:02 AM by Simone Busoli

Hi Scott, Nikhil's stuff is great as usual. I just wanted to point out that I've developed some goodies myself to enhance the built-in controls. One is a notifier of UpdatePanel's updates, both visual and customizable, and another is an enhancement of the UpdateProgress which lets you choose where in the page you want to show it.

All this stuff is on my blog at this urls:

http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/simoneb/archive/2006/11/14/ASP.NET-Ajax-EnhancedUpdateProgress-_2D00_-choose-the-position-of-your-UpdateProgress_2100_.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/simoneb/archive/2006/11/19/ASP.NET-Ajax-UpdatePanelNotifier_3A00_-get-notified-of-partial-updates.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/simoneb/archive/2006/11/20/ASP.NET-Ajax-UpdatePanelNotifier-Builtin-Effects.aspx

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:57 AM by Thacker

Thanks for providing offline documentation.  It is appreciated.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control

Friday, March 16, 2007 5:03 PM by Stan Schneider

Could you help me out or have somebody try and answer this question on ASP.Net.

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1622904.aspx