David Barkol writes on his blog about ASP.NET AJAX Role Application Service with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). Well, it is a new service that is working similar to the profile and authentication service. As it is very easy to call it from the client-side JavaScript code you should be a little bit more...

In my current project I'm using a own User object that I store in the HttpContext.Session to have personalized data available without connecting on each AJAX method / page refresh to the database. If the session will end because of timeouts, Web server resets/crash or application pool recycle this data...

[I will be available for Microsoft Silverlight discussions at the webinale 07 conference in Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart to talk and discuss about the latest version of Silverlight presented at the Mix07 in Las Vegas. Of course, you can talk with me about Ajax.NET Professional, too.] Die Konferenz für das Next...

Some developers mentioned that it would be nice if Ajax.NET Professional could be more JSON compliant to use with some JavaScript frameworks that are not using the eval statement. And, if you have a look at json.org JSON message always have to be an object or array, not a string or boolean directly....

There are a couple of web sites reporting about security issues that hackers can use to invoke AJAX methods or use the JSON output to get data from other web applications. Specificallly, these attacks use HTTP GET requests invoked via an HTML <script src=""> include element to circumvent...

Scott Hanselman is writing on his blog : The MSDN Docs are very careful not to recommend using impersonation it affects connection pooling when talking to databases downstream. The suggestion that one takes care when using impersonation has been in place since its inception. [...] ScottGu has a good...

This weekend I had a deep look on the native XMLHttpRequest support with the new Internet Explorer version 7 which is still in beta. If you do a Google search for " native xmlhttp support ie " you will read that everyone is happy with this native support. Yes, it is the first step to have XMLHttpRequest...

I put the new version online, download the latest DLL at http://www.ajaxpro.info/ . There are a lot of performance changes done, and the lib is now working perfect with the script.aculo.us effects. A not yet finished updated version of the Starter Kit is online, see http://munich.schwarz-interactive...

I have written a short example about how to use web forms security with Ajax.NET Professional. The example (C# and VB.NET) is included in the latest version available at http://www.ajaxpro.info/ . Discuss the security.aspx example at Google groups . ( Update : there are about 2.500 members reading and...