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And we have a new release of Ajax Control Toolkit. I didn’t work on this one but there are some nice things in there nonetheless :) First, new controls! SeaDragon : I’ve blogged before about Seadragon , the JavaScript-only way to do Deep Zoom . It became a lot easier to use a few month ago when the need for tools disappeared and you can just point to any image on the web and immediately get the URL and script tag to put on your page: Now with this release of Ajax Control Toolkit, including and controlling Deep Zoom from an ASP.NET page is also very easy : < ajaxToolkit : Seadragon ID ="Seadragon" CssClass ="seadragon" runat ="server" SourceUrl ="sample.xml"/> James Senior just released a screencast...
Several people have reported seeing errors in their logs that seem to be due to requests such as this: /ScriptResource.axd?d= [lots of junk] & t=ffffffffee24147c The important part here is the HTML-encoded “&” sequence, which stands for “&” of course. If this exact URL is sent to the server, the server won’t know what to do with the escape sequence (URLs are not supposed to be HTML-encoded on the wire) so the parameters won’t get separated as expected, potentially resulting in a server error. This bug in the toolkit is an example of that: http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=13134 Of course, when people see 500 errors popping up in their server logs, they immediately assume the application...
If you haven’t already and you are a .NET developer, please take a couple minutes and answer this survey, whether you use Ajax or not. There are a number of Ajax surveys around, but Simone’s is the only one that focuses on .NET developers. The survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22973CYKW2H Simone’s post: http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2009/05/21/ajax-usage-among-.net-developers-in-2009.aspx Read More...
A new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit is now available for download from the CodePlex website. It contains three new controls: HTMLEditor - allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in WYSIWYG mode or in HTML source mode. The control exists as a server-side extender but can also be instantiated purely on the client-side with a single line of code. Many thanks to Obout for building this. ComboBox - provides a DropDownList of items, combined with TextBox. Different modes determine the interplay between the text entry and the list of items. this control behaves very much like a Windows combo. Many thanks to Dan Ludwig for building this. ColorPicker - can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control to provide client-side...
Microsoft Ajax has the interesting ability to combine more than one component onto a single element. In the previous talk, I alluded to this possibility and one of the commenters (Tiamat) asked me to show how this is done. Here is an example that combines the new EditInPlace behavior I showed yesterday with an AutoComplete and a Watermark from the Ajax Control Toolkit: <% @ Page Language ="C#" %> <% @ Register Assembly ="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace ="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix ="act" %> <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> < html xmlns ="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">...
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 , Zune , WMV or WMV-HQ . Slides: http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/PPTX/PC32.pptx Demo code (contains MIT and MS-PL licensed JavaScript files): http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/ZIP/PC32.ZIP Another talk you may be interested in is Stephen Walther's . Stephen did an amazing job explaining how jQuery and ASP.NET Ajax work and fit together. The talk is very accessible even if you have no prior knowledge of jQuery: http://channel9...
Stephen Walther has a pretty cool post on using the new file-only version of the Ajax Control Toolkit from an MVC application: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/08/22/asp-net-mvc-tip-36-create-a-popup-calendar-helper.aspx Read More...
I just released the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1. This is an intermediary release that provides a version of the Toolkit that is built against the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains a new control, MultiHandleSlider, built by Daniel Crenna (thanks, Daniel, you're the hero of this release) and integrates patches contributed by the community. A big thank you to all who contributed (see their names in the hall of fame ). The sample web site is not yet updated to this new release, this will be done in a couple of days. I will update this post once this is done. What's next? In the very short term, we will provide a client-side only version of the toolkit, similar to the Microsoft Ajax Library , that enables...
I know, I know, we were a whole week late from our original date. What kind of show are we running around here anyway? :) S Seriously there's a lot of big fixes in here - almost 1000 votes worth - including some much-requested Calendar work (thanks Ron ). One of the thing the team has been working really hard on is a new testing framework for the Toolkit - one that lets us define tests much more easily so we can broaden our test coverage. The new framework and harness is super cool - but it's a bunch of new code so we're still smoothing out some of the bumps. For several days we thought we were close to getting it perfect, and wanted it to be included with this release. This went on for a few days and it was clear we were spending much more...
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