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Using client templates, part 1
Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of an ASPX file to make it perfectly clear that everything here (except for the web service that provides the data) runs on the client.
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Windows Live tools for Visual Studio
The Live team just shipped a great suite of controls that enable Live integration into any ASP.NET web site. The suite contains Map, LiveID, Messenger controls and more.
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If you don't know about CTRL+I in Visual Studio...
If you don't know about CTRL+I in Visual Studio, go try it, I'll be waiting...
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Alternating styles in ListView without AlternatingItemTemplate
ListView (the server-side control), like all repeating data controls in ASP.NET, has an AlternatingItemTemplate, but it would be a shame to have to copy all the markup in the ItemTemplate into AlternatingItemTemplate, just to alternate styles on the items. It's quite likely that only css classes will change between the two, and redundancy is bad <- big scoop here.
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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available
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.
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Using ScriptManager with other frameworks
ScriptManager is a useful control. It manages script references, removes duplicates, enables localization and debug/release modes, enables script combining and makes client-side component-based development easier (components register their script dependencies with ScriptManager without the page developer having to know those dependencies). But one thing we should have anticipated was that this control would be interesting to developers who wish to use a different framework than the Microsoft Ajax Library.
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Who's the PC now?
I saw WALL-E yesterday with my daughter. As usual, Pixar delivers a great, fun movie. Animating a pile of rusty metal and transform it into such a moving character is no small achievement. But there's one thing that I found really curious.
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ASP.NET Ajax roadmap published
We just published our roadmap for ASP.NET Ajax.