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...

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...

You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie . I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript...

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...

As we seen in my last post , declarative is very powerful. Let's now see how simple it is to use his own custom behavior. First of all, we need to create a behavior. In this example, we will use a simple HoverBehavior. His goal is just to swap a CSS class when mouse is over a DOM element. To create a...

Following this post regarding Master-Details implementation by the programmatic way, let's see how to do it through declarative way. This sample is based on the ASP.NET AJAX CodePlex Preview 2 . Let's first create an .aspx page and add a ScriptManager to link the MicrosoftAjaxTemplates.js : 1: < asp...

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...