ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

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Stephen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:27:26 GMT

When applying the script do you add in for all pages or just for the ones that you want to go faster?

.NET 3.5 and VS SP beta1 goodies

ASPInsiders — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:02:32 GMT

You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I'm reading what's new on Brad Abrams post and

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

Trent — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:40:05 GMT

Has anybody noticed the increased PreRenderComplete times when using this control? My best guess is that there is some expensive operation during this method when trying to combine scripts. The implications were significant within our app. Script combination only saved a *fraction* of total download size, where I gained .7 seconds on the server for rendering this script. Definetly a deal breaker.

There's a new release of the AJAX toolkit

LA.NET [EN] — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:40:20 GMT

And it seems like it solves some of the issues i've mentioned before and brings improves to other

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

luisabreu — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:28:01 GMT

Hello.

yes, I've been told that there are improvements, but still wasn't able to download and test the latest version.

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

Delay — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:26:25 GMT

FYI, as of the 10618 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit, WebResourceAttribute is now required and the combined script URLs are much shorter. Additionally, there's a new CombinedScriptsHandlerUrl property that's pretty handy:

blogs.msdn.com/.../script-combining-made-better-overview-of-improvements-to-the-ajax-control-toolkit-s-toolkitscriptmanager.aspx

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

luisabreu — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:46:51 GMT

Delay: the query string length was something i forgot to mention in my initial post. compressing it looks good to me :)

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Delay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:11:05 GMT

Luis, Yes, the length of the combined script URL is something we'd like to decrease. I mention it briefly in my blog, but hadn't gotten around to opening a work item until earlier today. (Just a bit before you asked, in fact!) http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11025

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

luisabreu — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:55:20 GMT

Yes, Bertrand. As always, you're correct. :)

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

luisabreu — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:52:20 GMT

howdy.

thanks.

yeah, you're right about extenders and scriptresource. and if i'm not mistaken, you can also add that line automatically when loading a script by using the notifyscriptloaded property of the scriptreference object.

however, i thought it was best to mention this because there's always the chance of having a dll with embedded js files and you might be using a scriptelement to add a reference to that js file.

maybe there should be a recommendation for not adding the notifyScriptLoaded method to the end of the file (making us use the notifyscriptloaded property of the scriptreference element).

btw, a question: isn't there a possibility of running out of chars on the query string when you have several js files and several assemblies?

re: ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

Bertrand Le Roy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:47:34 GMT

Minor remark: if you use the regular script manager, you don't need to add the notification line either.

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Delay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:17:42 GMT

Luis, Great write-up! If you're interested, please have a look at my blog for a little more detail on how ToolkitScriptManager works - and why. :) * http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/06/11/script-combining-made-easy-overview-of-the-ajax-control-toolkit-s-toolkitscriptmanager.aspx. I've just created a work item for the WebResourceAttribute issue you mention - thanks for pointing that out. * http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11023 Your comment about notifyScriptLoaded is good - though you'll notice that none of the AJAX Control Toolkit scripts called that method because ScriptResource.axd adds it automatically for any scripts it serves. Thanks!