I have to say, that sometimes I really feel the infancy of the Ajax controls. I love them, don't get me wrong, but some of this stuff seems like it should have been thought of. Needless to say, recently I found myself needing to use Service Methods for a project, and on several occasions when data was...

Returning single bits of data is nice, as seen in the previous examples. Doing it async is even better - but what we really want to do is make this useful for business, and in business we use objects. In this example I'll demonstrate how to use serialization methods, to return an object (serialized to...

Problem: Depending on your design, it may or may not work to have your atlas progress rendering inline with your other content. This is actually kind of a pain. My situation included a gridview being rendered that may require the user to scroll, clicking a paging link at the bottom. Clicking this link...

I typically track stats to my blog using a free site called StatCounter ( http://www.statcounter.com ) which is a remarkable tool if you can run just a little JavaScript in a master page on your site. I've noticed over the past several weeks that consistently a keyword in my searches keeps coming up...

Recently, I was given the opportunity to speak at an up-coming INETA meeting (Cedar Rapids, IA branch. http://www.crineta.org ). I have been doing a lot of Ajax Script service things lately, and really wanted to get the lead out and try my hand at an entire example. It was important that for my speech...

I just wanted to take a moment to thank the Cedar Rapids branch of the INETA user group for the warm welcome. I enjoyed speaking to the group tonight, and I hope some useful information was had by all. I'm in the process as we speak of converting the video I took to a web format, and I'll make it available...

In the first installment of this series, we discussed the reasons for creating a clean and efficient UI, and some of the methods behind it. If you haven't read the first part I suggest you do so here . In this article we are going to go over some of the basics in getting setup to provide a streamlined...

In all the examples we've seen so far, we've returned simple strings, integers, or a standard type / value. That's all fine and good, until we have something a little more complex to return, or need to return a list or array of something, or a list of type. In the following example I'll demonstrate through...

What a great time to be had a development conferences. Putting that many smart people in one room should be illegal honestly. Two solid days of .NET energy (and one adobe flex talk, ...<blink>) - Culminated with a 4 hour presentation by Scott Guthrie on the new Visual Studios 2008 / .NET 3.0 and...