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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Observing updates to POJOs (Plain 'Ole JavaScript Objects)
First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there, or there, or there, and let us know what you think and what you like or don't like about it. We love feedback, and it really does have an impact on the product. We wouldn't go through all the trouble of releasing preview bits or presenting these things if it didn't.
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Google Chrome - Aw, Snap!
Plenty of people have already seen this... interesting... error screen in chrome.
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Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!
Lately I've been using a laptop more often than a desktop to work in Visual Studio, and of course like most laptop keyboards, the keys are jammed close together. The most annoying thing I keep doing by mistake is hitting F1 instead of Escape, which of course begins the not-so-quick process of bringing up help. Every time I do it, I sigh, wait, and close it.
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My Latest Work
Sky Lynn Reed's 0th birthday is 5/15/2008 at 5:44pm, when she weighed 8 pounds, 0 ounces. A nice round binary number. Our first born! There are simply no words to describe the experience. We debated on whether we should have kids for a long time. After being married almost 5 years now, we finally decided to take the plunge. Now that she's here, and about 5 weeks old, we couldn't imagine our lives without her.
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Flickering UI From the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit TabContainer while in an UpdatePanel?
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TRULY Understanding Dynamic Controls by Example
Many of the comments I've received in the various dynamic controls entries I've written have been questions for help with a specific scenario. A lot of those scenarios are similar. One in particular I keep hearing is something as follows:
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OnLoad vs. Page_Load vs. Load event
I get this question a lot for some reason. The more general question is whether it is better to override a virtual method on the page or control in question (OnLoad, OnInit, OnPreRender, etc), or to hook into the corresponding event. For page development you have yet another choice; that magical Page_Load method.
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TRULY Understanding ViewState, the comment index
A long time ago I published one of my first blog entries, TRULY Understanding ViewState. And what an experience it has been. It was pretty popular with commenters, so much so I decided to spin off a whole series of articles, TRULY Understanding Dynamic Controls based on some of the issues people were asking me about.