Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest . The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . The currently central feature of the hub is to expose a publish/subscribe...

Every developer needs to debug his applications. There are two ways: Debugging - step-by-step tracking of an application process. Tracing - monitoring of application processes without breaking and writing useful information in a special console. Asp.Net developers wrote the great Ajax Framework. There...

Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consecutive...

Needing a solution to fix transparent PNG in IE6 I came to start using one of the many javascript based solutions to do this. But when it came time to use ajax and populating new images in my postbacks this obviously broke. So I created a custom ASP.NET Component to help me do this... Control: I created...

Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked in ASP...

When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...

On previous posts [ ^ ][ ^ ] I mentioned the size of ASP.NET validators and validation summary rendering and the fact that expando attributes are being used to add properties. Mohamed also mentions this issue. Besides the fact that custom attributes aren't XHTML conformant, Firefox differs from Internet...