Tales from the Evil Empire

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.

For the purposes of my next post, I built a neat little edit in place behavior and I thought it deserved its own post. It does a pretty good job at showing how easy it is to build a clean behavior using ASP.NET Ajax. It’s always good to go back to the basics… In this post, I’ll show you how the behavior works, but more importantly how I built it.

In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version.

David has an excellent post about a pretty cool ASP.NET feature that you almost certainly don’t know about. I had no idea for sure. Check it out.

We published some documentation for ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 Preview 3:
http://quickstarts.asp.net/previews/ajax/templates/default.aspx

Dave has a fantastic and very detailed post about our implementation of the Observer pattern in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0.

Martin has an interesting post on the technique he uses in his Silverlight chess board to generate HTML from a Silverlight application.

Jeff King just announced the release of a patch for Visual Studio 2008 that enables the IDE to find the –vsdoc.js file without requiring the developer to reference it.