Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional . It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on the client – before it was not very easy...

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...

Web Services with AJAX As most of you would already know, AJAX Extension allows you to create proxies to expose web services to be consumed by the Web Browsers. The mechanism for calling these service functions is completely asynchronous and allows you to specify two functions that will be called when...

FYI: sample code is attached @ the end When working in ASP.NET, sometimes you need to call server-side methods asynchronously without having either full-page or partial-page postback. Thanks go to the ASP.NET team to provide an easy implementation of ICALLBACK. ICALLBACK ICALLBACK is a lightweight process...

Today I explored some alternative JavaScript coding methods to make it easier to dynamically create DOM elements. I used jQuery and the jQuery Plugin, FlyDOM , to work with the Amazon web service API. I bought the book Amazon.com Mashups by Francis Shanahan from the Computer Books Direct club which is...

Last night I finally finished the improvements to my xml2json generic handler which were required to develop a Stickam widget. Since I am sending the URL of the feed as a query string value to the generic handler it was necessary to deal with ampersands in the feed's URL without screwing up the query...

Yesterday I found a useful tool for checking the syntax of JavaScript Object Notation strings: http://www.raboof.com/Projects/JsonChecker/ I needed that because I'm trying to create a widget for Stickam that will work in my compiled help file. I'm using my xml2json generic handler to convert XML to JSON...

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...

After finding a way to read RSS feeds in a custom help collection web page without cross domain restrictions, see previous blog post , I naturally wanted to do the same thing with XML feeds. You could probably figure that out for yourself given the RSS example but I hate it when I find sample code that...

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...