This is a repost from a post I made to the ASP.NET Forums : Intro: With the recent Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions release there has been a lot of feedback, both positive and negative, about the changes made to UpdatePanels. The feedback has ranged from “wow, finally validators work” all...

This is another repost from a post I made to the ASP.NET Forums : Buying Into Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX without Necessarily Paying For It By Eilon Lipton, Software Design Engineer on Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Abstract Without the release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX just around the corner, taking advantage of...

Over the past few months I've received some feedback that there need to be more ways to customize the rendering of the UpdatePanel control. The response I gave was that we felt that using <div> and <span> would cover by far most scenarios. The one thing I would have loved to add to UpdatePanel...

It's so hard to come up with blog topics that I've decided to outsource the whole idea creation operation. What topics do you want to hear about? As with most people, I prefer talking about my own area of expertise and not just random ramblings. Here are the general topics I'm familiar with...

If you've used the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control, there's a good chance you've hit the "Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException" error. What's a PageRequestManagerParserErrorException? The UpdatePanel control uses asynchronous postbacks to control which...

As many people have noticed in their AJAX-enabled pages, file uploads do not work when doing an async postback. To my knowledge there's no way to support this scenario due to the browser's security restrictions. To understand why the upload doesn't work it's important to understand how async postbacks...

As many people have noticed in their AJAX-enabled pages, file uploads do not work when doing an async postback. To my knowledge there's no way to support this scenario due to the browser's security restrictions. To understand why the upload doesn't work it's important to understand how async postbacks...

If you've used the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control, there's a good chance you've hit the "Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException" error. What's a PageRequestManagerParserErrorException? The UpdatePanel control uses asynchronous postbacks to control which...

It's so hard to come up with blog topics that I've decided to outsource the whole idea creation operation. What topics do you want to hear about? As with most people, I prefer talking about my own area of expertise and not just random ramblings. Here are the general topics I'm familiar with...

Over the past few months I've received some feedback that there need to be more ways to customize the rendering of the UpdatePanel control. The response I gave was that we felt that using <div> and <span> would cover by far most scenarios. The one thing I would have loved to add to UpdatePanel...