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...

Recently some reports have been issued by security researchers describing ways hackers can use the JSON wire format used by most popular AJAX frameworks to try and exploit cross domain scripts within browsers. Specifically, these attacks use HTTP GET requests invoked via an HTML <script src="">...

I had a watch today on the webcast How Hackers Reverse Engineer and Exploit an Ajax Application . There wasn't any new security issue as we already should know as AJAX or web application developers. Samples did show how to hack the AutoComplete.asmx web service (using ASP.NET AJAX ) which was used...

Several people have sent me email lately asking for a suggested short-list of my best/favorite past blog posts to read (I’ve done 200 posts over the last 12 months and apparently it takes too long to read them all <g>). I’ve put together a summary page of ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes...

Disclaimer: I worked on the Microsoft Ajax 4.0 template engine, so my criteria are of course heavily influenced by our own design. Templates are a data rendering method that server-side developers have enjoyed since the old days of classic ASP and PHP. The idea was quite simple (add code blocks and dynamic...