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What?????
I just don't understand Sony's PR strategy...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=451414&in_page_id=1770&ct=5 -
Woohoo! I'm on TV!
The latest episode of the .NET show is all about ASP.NET Ajax. Brad and Matt first have a really interesting discussion of the history and architecture of ASP.NET Ajax and then you can see me demo-ing UpdatePanel, extenders and localization. -
PrtSc now useless... or maybe not.
While looking for the character map in the accessory folder of Vista, I found a little gem that I just have to share. Vista now has a Snipping Tool that enables you to capture parts of the screen, highlight and draw on top of it and copy or save the results. Some would say it's about time and that there's about a million freewares that do this already, I'm just happy to have found it right there in Windows. It can even take non-rectangular snips:
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The format for JavaScript doc comments
Xml documentation annotations are going to drive JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio Orcas (the next version of Visual Studio). For more than a year now, we've been including xml doc comments to all public APIs in the Microsoft Ajax Library (which are a great place to check out some examples of those comments). We also use the doc comments to automatically generate parameter validation code in the debug version of our scripts.
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How to keep some context attached to a JavaScript event handler?
The problem is the following... You want to attach a handler to a DOM event but you want some information to remain associated with it. Let's say for example that the handler is a method of an object that makes use of the "this" pointer somewhere in its body (as it should, otherwise it should probably be static). As the API to attach a handler just takes a function pointer, and the "this" pointer is determined by the DOM element that triggered the event, it seems difficult to do. The Microsoft Ajax Library (like almost all Ajax libraries, let's be honest) provides an easy way to work around that. If you call:
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OpenAjax meetings
It was my great pleasure to be at the face to face OpenAjax Alliance meetings for the first time last month. Thanks to the nice people at IBM for hosting them. I really enjoyed the discussions with Alex from Dojo, Gideon from OpenSpot and many others. There were also great demos of OpenAjax-based interoperability.
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Scott on JSON hijacking
Scott has a great post on how ASP.NET Ajax has built-in mitigations already in place for JSON hijacking attacks:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/04/json-hijacking-and-how-asp-net-ajax-1-0-mitigates-these-attacks.aspx