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...

I have immense respect for Douglas Crockford, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with him... Douglas has written on a number of occasions that he prefers plain script tags, with no attributes. The argument goes like this: "This script block uses the language attribute. This was a feature that was...

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...

Hi, Many a times when working with the Web Application you would like to give the user the comfort of getting the job done without using the mouse. It can be of great use to the user if they can perform many tasks using the keyboard in a web application. If you have used Gmail you would know how easy...

I've been seeing more and more authors lately dismissing partial rendering (a.k.a. UpdatePanel) as a poor man's version of Ajax, something you should only choose if you're too lazy to implement "true" Ajax. I think that view not only has a slightly pedantic ring (isn't laziness one of the most...

When we built the history management feature in ASP.NET Futures, we spent considerable time experimenting with the different behaviors of the main browsers out there. The problem with such a feature is that it has to rely on a number of hacks because browser vendors basically never anticipated this need...

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...