The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site . You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC32/ Download MP4 / iPod...

I just released the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1. This is an intermediary release that provides a version of the Toolkit that is built against the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains a new control, MultiHandleSlider, built by Daniel Crenna (thanks, Daniel, you're the hero...

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...

If you ask me, the AJAX Control Toolkit's ReorderList is the most under appreciated control in the Toolkit. Compared to many of the other controls, it gets no love. The Toolkit demo site's sample for this control isn't really all that helpful and third party samples are sparse. And how do you bind it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Today, I finally released on Codeplex a control that I had been working on over a year ago, called the Animated SIteMap Control . Its an AJAX Control toolkit control and it has been prototype form for a very long time now. I had planned on releasing it into the AJAX Control toolkit but I got sidetracked...

A new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit is now available for download from the CodePlex website. It contains three new controls: HTMLEditor - allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in WYSIWYG mode or in HTML source mode. The control exists as a server-side extender but can...