I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex: Features/Benefits Silverlight .NET 3.0 Flash/Flex Rich 2D animation/graphics with audio and video yes yes yes Industry standard video codec yes yes no Scalable video format from HD to mobile yes yes no Hardware...

I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex: Features/Benefits Silverlight .NET Flash/Flex Rich 2D animation/graphics with audio and video yes yes yes Industry standard video codec yes yes no Scalable video format from HD to mobile yes yes no Hardware-assisted...

When you wrap content with an UpdatePanel, it pretty much takes care of everything for you. But it can't do absolutely everything... Take for example some inline script: < p > Some html before the script </ p > < script type = "text/javascript" > alert( 'hi' ); </ script > <...

Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers . The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit which is used by almost half of the .NET developers...

Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods inside...

If you upgrade from Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 to 3.5, and you have a TabContainer inside an update panel, like this: < asp : UpdatePanel ID = "UpdatePanel1" runat = "server" > < ContentTemplate > < act : TabContainer runat = "server" > < act : TabPanel runat = "server...

Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked in ASP...

When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...

Internet Explorer 8 is in beta and we're able to improve features that we need. Last week I sent a short message to the Microsoft DPE here in Germany with some comments what I like more in Firefox 3 than in Internet Explorer. Well, there are a couple of great features like the star-it function to easily...

On December 5th last year Microsoft Live Labs announced the Volta technology preview , a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and patterns. You architect and built your application as a .NET client application, assigning the portions...