Jason N. Gaylord's Blog : AJAX

Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:10:13 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #9...(read more)

Technology Links for May 7th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:49:54 GMT

Technology Related Links – Post #1

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:07:25 GMT

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized...(read more)

Telerik Controls and Demo Application Support ASP.NET MVC

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:58:47 GMT

I received Telerik’s monthly newsletter this morning and noticed that they’ve added support for ASP.NET MVC to their AjaxControls . Now they’ve taken it a step further to produce an MVC forums application using their control suite. If you are a Telerik...(read more)

2 Great ASP.NET Podcasts

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:55:03 GMT

I’ve been quite busy working on a side project in which I’ll post more details very soon. However, I came across the two latest ASP.NET Podcasts in which I thought I’d share: Caching with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 ASP.NET AJAX with JQuery Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Formerly "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions") Released

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:20:46 GMT

ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, which was formerly called the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, has been released. The NetFX update was available as part of the SQL Server 2008 download available on Friday. Now it is available as a separate download. There are quite...(read more)

Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:57:06 GMT

I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this...(read more)

Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:05:25 GMT

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you...(read more)

Getting Started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:37:24 GMT

Sonu Kapoor just posted about getting started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 . The AjaxDataControls can be found on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ . Included in the controls are a JavaScript version of the Repeater...(read more)

AJAX Tip: Don't forget about the Async Web Service Calls!

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:15:36 GMT

FireFox. Internet Explorer 8. Both have great JavaScript debugging tools. Thanks to those tools, I only spent 5 minutes on an issue that could have taken hours to figure out. It was one of those moments when you know its something simple but you can't...(read more)

A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type 'XXX'

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:43:58 GMT

I ran into an issue earlier when trying to return an entity class through a web service for use in an AJAX page. After some quick research, I came across a post by Darren Neimke that referenced Rick Strahl's post about LINQ to SQL and Serialization...(read more)

Need "Out of the Box" AJAX Functionality for Your Data Controls?

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:19:01 GMT

I've been using the Ajax Data Controls (ADC) for 9 months. I recently joined their development team to convert the controls to VS 2008/.NET 3.5. It's a really cool control set that uses AJAX for the complete data transaction. The documentation...(read more)

AjaxDataControls DLL for ASP.NET 3.5

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:27:14 GMT

The AjaxDataControls that have been developed by the DotNetSlackers team have been out for some time now. They were originally developed using the AJAX 1.0 libraries (pre 3.5 days). I've recently encountered some issues where they don't seem to...(read more)

Need To Set Bounds for onscroll to Work

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:24:14 GMT

Sonu Kapoor over at DotNetSlackers.com has, not only a great site, but also some great AJAX controls. He's always looking to improve his controls and today he stumbled across something. He was working on a prototype where he had a div nested inside...(read more)

Mario Brothers in JavaScript

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:01:00 GMT

I came across this post and found it to be an interesting implementation of Mario. The game is written in 14kb of JavaScript. Check it out at http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html . Read More......(read more)

Enumerating JavaScript Object Properties

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:29:00 GMT

I am building a few controls that use client-side script for reuse in the one web app I'm working on. I needed a way to enumerate the property names and values of an object in JavaScript so I knew which properties I had access to. Here's a JavaScript...(read more)

Using Animations with the PopupControlExtender

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:18:00 GMT

I was looking for a solution to provide a "fly-in" form when a user would click on a particular button. I found it with the PopupControlExtender. The documentation for Animations with controls is poor so with some testing, I finally got a solution...(read more)

AJAX Indicators and Progress Icons

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:50:00 GMT

Awhile back, Scott Guthrie had posted a blog entry about various progress icons and indicators. Here is the list that he posted: http://www.napyfab.com/ajax-indicators/ http://www.ajaxload.info/ http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/ Does anyone know...(read more)

Web 2.0 - You need to jump on the bandwagon

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:06:00 GMT

With Web 2.0 getting more and more publicity, you need to jump on the web 2.0 bandwagon now. AJAX and Silverlight can help you. I came across a posting on CIO.com called the Web 2.0 Rap (by Phillip Gordon ): "Now don’t you know Web 2.0 is the...(read more)