Dave has a fantastic and very detailed post about our implementation of the Observer pattern in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 . This feature is what enables the live bindings to work. Check it out! http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2008/11/09/asp-net-ajax-4-0-observing-updates-to-pojos-plain-ole-javascript...

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Jim Wang (one of the great QA people on the Ajax team) just started a blog, and his first post is a very detailed walk through building a data-driven application from scratch using ADO.NET Data Services and the new client templates in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 . http://weblogs.asp.net/jimwang/archive/2008/11...

The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site . You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC32/ Download MP4 / iPod...

In a recent post , I showed how the binding component can be instantiated independently of the {binding} markup extension. But there’s a whole lot more it can do. For instance, it has two very interesting callback properties, convert and convertBack that get called any time the binding sees a change...

A comment on this post is asking whether it is possible to create bindings outside of a template. The point of doing that is that you don’t necessarily want to render a template just to set-up a few bindings. Well, bindings are really implemented by a component, Sys.Binding, and a markup extension, which...

I'm sharing a spot with Scott Cate (of CloudDB fame, and by the way CloudDB is a fantastic product built entirely using ASP.NET AJAX) this week on Hanselminutes. I had lots of fun discussing with Scott (Hanselman) on various topics ranging from JavaScript to the Microsoft Ajax Library and our new client...

I'm very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. Thanks to everyone who made that happen and thanks to all of you for providing feedback on the Roadmap . This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template...

ScriptManager is a useful control. It manages script references, removes duplicates, enables localization and debug/release modes, enables script combining and makes client-side component-based development easier (components register their script dependencies with ScriptManager without the page developer...

We just published our roadmap for ASP.NET Ajax . In this document we describe some of the proposed features that we are considering investing in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Web Developer, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. We really appreciate your feedback, so this document is intended...