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great work from the team. Suggestion for the experienced AJAX developer. Mark the new/updated sections in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 documentation. Or (2nd best option) make a list with links to the new entrys

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Oh great; more documentation that sits outside the development environment. Just what we need.

Why on earth isn't all this delivered as MSDN/VS Help documentation, in addition to the web based stuff? I don't want to start up a browser to read documentation; I want my dynamic help; I want all my documentation in one place.

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Thats great Now I can look for all the stuff for asp.net ajax extension at one place

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Thanks for the link to the Javascript object browser....  that'll really help finding out all that it can do  :-)

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Hey scott,

I know this question is a bit off topic but still I am wondering what your opinion is about this.

Last year you gave a speach in the netherlands about atlas. I asked you then how atlas could be used to do a constant polling of the server. You said that it isn't such a good idea but JSON can be used for that. I said that it would be good for a chat application.

Well, actually I do agree that constant polling isn't that good of an idea and I think that some sort of push technology should be introduced in next browsers. because if AJAX is part of web 2.0 then there has to be a web 3.0.... in my opinion push technology or remoting should be standard possible in browsers....(for .net remoting the client needs the .net framework installed and this isn't always ideal)

the decision of to much bandwith should be left with the website creators....

maybe there may be security issues if push or remoting is implemented in browsers...

What is your opinion about this?

greets,

Erdem

# re: ASP.NET AJAX Documentation Update, Videos and Cool Articles

Scott, this is all great, and thanks!  But, I see a need that I'm hoping you are willing to consider.

All of the examples are very "vanilla" in that they involve dragging and dropping and declarative (html view) methods of use.

What about the "code only" approach that is so often used when creating custom or composite server controls?

For "plain" asp.net server controls it is VERY easy to do something like "dim tb as new textbox" and set it's properties and add this textbox to the controls collection of your page or placeholder..

But it's not at all that simple with some of the Ajax controls.  It takes a lot of time and work to figure out how to do some of these things purely through codebehind.

I'm pretty sure if I were to learn Reflector it would become easier, but I have not yet had the time to jump into that.  Examples would be GREAT.

# AJAX Documentation - Very nice.

Awesome work guys!

Quick question here on something that's been stumping me for hours:

From within an UpdatePanel, how can I force a (specific) button click to refresh the whole page? (Full refresh)

I Googled it and there are some hacks that don't work for me. Most attempts where in early 2006.

Is this easy and I'm missing something?

Thanks!

Jim C

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More documentation the merrier! I espeically love the link to the pageflake tutorial, finally I can get a concret idea on how to implement this feature for the future relase of my pm software.  Tried that in Atlas using webparts, but it wasn't so clean, so I had to get rid of this important feature.

Thanks again!

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awesome

thanks scott

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Hello

All good stuff but wondering is this stuff going to be able to be printed? We have a few people that travel a lot and can do with this rather than letting them take laptops, but it seems rather frustrating knowing that we have all this wonderfull stuff for free but cant print!!

Thanks

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Any idea when/whether a "Futures" documentation will be available ?

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Hi Scott,

I catch your blog every day.  You've helped me a lot with my work.  Thanks for the update!

Hey Jim C,

You can try looking into the __doPostBack javascript function.  It should do the trick.  If you can't invoke the function on a control within an update panel, try placing a button with style "display: none" somewhere outside of the update panel, and call myButton.click() from javascript.

Good luck!

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Excelent post Scott,

thanks.

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myButton.click()  Does not work in firefox?  Not sure what does...

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While "push" will be really handy with Ajax, the propensity for misuse is very high. If we thought pop-ups and pop-unders are bad, wait till we get "push" in Ajax. Polling is never an efficient mechanism but I guess, for now, we are stuck with it.

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Some of the videos helped me out of some AJAX Nightmares. Thank you.

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Stuff @ JoeOn.net about AJAX helped a lot (to get a grip on ajax), but there's some stuff I don't understand (which I'd like to).

Could you please help clear a problem I'm having about understanding the code about "AJAX ASP.NET Incremental Page Fetch Pattern w/ GET&POST"... I'm unclear why the <div> element used to display fetched pages must be outside of ASP.NET <form>... I've noticed that getElementById won't work if div is inside the form, but I've got a sitouation in which I need to place some ASP.NET controls AFTER that div used to display fetched pages only I can't since you can only have one visible form per .aspx page!?

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Hi Scott:

I´m really desesperate because I haven´t found some information about this. My Team and I are working in an ASP .NET 2.0 + AJAX application. We are using collapsible panels and also adding information to dropdownlist from JavaScript. I tested the application with IE 7 and I have my dropdownlist truncated and also my collapsible panel are not being showed.

Could you help me with that?

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Hi Scott,

Really like your Blog.  I downloaded AJAX toolkit using the appropriate video.  But for some reason, when I drag & drop the ConfirmButtonExtender in design view it doesn't appear.  It's in source view but it doesn't appear in design view.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Mark

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