As we all know, Visual Studio will have jQuery support for now on, which is a great thing. I use jQuery heavily at work when customizing CRM and also to develop other projects. However, I really enjoy Mootools, which is another great JavaScript framework. Long ago I've seen a post somewhere about calling...

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...

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...

While developing my small Ajax.NET M! library for creating Web applications that run on the .NET Micro Framework I have started to write my own Web server. Some years ago I wrote a simple SMTP/POP server and using some code from there was a great help. The first version will only return static HTML pages...

The embeddedworld2008 is over and I had some time to play around with Microsoft .NET Micro Framework devices. I can remember that I had a look on it during the first available betas on Microsoft Connect, but then stopped watching it because of the missing TCP/IP stack. The now available version 2.5 of...

James has published a first beta of LINQ to JSON support in his Json.NET library . It looks very similar to my LINQ support in an internal build of Ajax.NET Professional which never has been released.   List < Post > posts = GetPosts(); JObject rss = new JObject( new JProperty( " channel...

Recently I've discovered a fantastic free service provided by Yahoo! which makes it possible to convert any XML data feed into a JSON data feed. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ It is easy to create a pipe that provides a JSON data feed with a callback function for web services that don't actually implement...

The microblogging site http://www.pownce.com/ has opened to the general public so I decided to give their API a try. But the main point of this blog post is to dispute the assertion that JSON is " easy for humans to read and write ". It is not easy to read! JSON is a mess of curly braces, brackets, and...

FYI: sample code is attached @ the end When working in ASP.NET, sometimes you need to call server-side methods asynchronously without having either full-page or partial-page postback. Thanks go to the ASP.NET team to provide an easy implementation of ICALLBACK. ICALLBACK ICALLBACK is a lightweight process...

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...