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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Simone Chiaretta had a look at the results of Ajaxian's survey about the state of the usage in the Web development community. He decided to make a new survey , but this time only focused on .NET developers. Please click here to take the survey and vote for your AJAX library you are using in production...

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea This book provides in-depth coverage of the Microsoft client library for AJAX. I didn't even know Microsoft had a JavaScript library but you can download it at: http://asp.net/ajax/downloads...

My friend Kirk has a very interesting post that uses LINQ to turn an XML RSS feed into a JSON service using WCF . (Wow, this is acronym heaven!) The piece has good information about techniques using .NET 3.5 including LINQ to XML (including XDocument) and something in System.ServiceModel.Syndication...

There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications: Mix 07 Silverlight Sessions Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of 2) Building Rich Web Experiences Using Silverlight...