• Microsoft AJAX Features & Implementation Samples

    There are many options within the Microsoft stack of products for AJAX type functionality.  The following article covers the primary mechanisms that utilize the Microsoft out of the box Ajax functionality.  Ajax must be one of the technologies used in all current web applications.  The primary benefit is the improved user experience by providing quick, responsive feedback. Core features include Ajax Client Libraries and Ajax Server Controls.  These libraries and controls enable the developer to quickly implement solutions within any ASP.NET application.  I have also included in this article...  

  • ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation - Again

    There are a few ways of deploying a .NET 2.0 ASP.NET application using Web Site Deployment Project using VS.NET Publish Command using VS.NET Build Command 1.) Using VS.NET Build ASP.NET not Visual Studio performs the build.  ASP.NET builds everything, including .cs and .vb code files and places all resulting assemblies in folder structure under Temporary ASP.NET files directory.  As ASP.NET does all of the compilation, the debug setting in the compilation section of the web.config controls debug or release mode.  Compile with debug=true and you'll find the .pdb debugging symbo...  

    
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:51 PM
1.) Download install VS.NET 2008 SP1 patch Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has the following patch to allow IntelliSense with jQuery found here.  Note: this is a patch that is applied after .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  Information about this patch can be found here. I did find that the vsdoc.js version must match the version of jquery in order for the intellisense to function correctly.  If...

Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:56 AM
I had a need to compare two SQL Server table for differences between them.  I started using .NET dataset features (merge, acceptchanges, getchanges) as follows:         Dim data1 DataSet = GetData1()          Dim data2 DataSet = GetData2()            Dim ds As New DataSet         ds.Merge(data1)         ds.AcceptChanges()         ds.Merge(data2)         ds.GetChanges(DataRowState.Modified) There ...

Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:58 PM
Recently, Microsoft released their ASP.NET AJAX Framework which allows developers to build AJAX applications more easily.  ASP.NET AJAX consists of two pieces.  1.) Microsoft AJAX Library - contains a set of script files that provide common functions and an OO programming framework 2.) ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions - includes a set of server controls that allows developers to add AJ...

 
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