Nikhil recently posted a nice blog post that includes a new ASP.NET AJAX-enabled control called "HistoryControl". When added to a page it allows developers to programmatically add logical views into a browser's history list. This enables you to make AJAX enabled sites much more useful, and to follow...

Luis Abreu is an ASP.NET MVP who has a great blog on the http://msmvps.com blog site. Earlier today he posted a great tutorial post that describes how to use some of the new features in the ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 release to add more robust error handling into your application. I highly recommend reading...

Earlier this week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas. This is a great conference that is held twice a year (the fall show is in Las Vegas, the spring show is in Orlando). This past week we had over 1,500 attendees for the ASP.NET conference alone, and more than 4,700 total...

If you aren't subscribed yet to Nikhil's blog, you really should visit it and subscribe immediately . Nikhil is an architect on the ASP.NET Team and is constantly cooking up and posting cool new utilities and samples on his blog (all of which are of course free). Among his many projects is the Script#...

Symptom: You are using ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 or Beta2, and create a .aspx page that is based on a .master file. You add the <asp:scriptmanger>, <asp:updatepanel>, <asp:updateprogress> or <asp:timer> control into the content page, and find that markup intellisense no longer works...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance...

People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure...

People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance...

Symptom: You are using ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 or Beta2, and create a .aspx page that is based on a .master file. You add the <asp:scriptmanger>, <asp:updatepanel>, <asp:updateprogress> or <asp:timer> control into the content page, and find that markup intellisense no longer works...