Blake Niemyjski : ASP.Net, Ajax

Got Posters?

Blake Niemyjski — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Chris Bowen’s did a search last month for all posters available on Microsoft Downloads. This is what he found:

.NET 3.5 Namespaces Poster
The .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster
Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Poster
Printable wall poster containing list of useful keyboard shortcuts for Visual Basic 2008 developers
Visual C++ 2008 Keybinding Poster
List of keybindings for Visual C++ language within Visual Studio and Visual C++ Express 2008
Visual C# 2008 Poster
Wall chart showing useful keyboard shortcuts for Visual C# programming language
2007 Office System: Developer Posters
Download these posters to learn more about the new features and enhancement to the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Windows Server 2008 Component Posters
Windows Server 2008 Component Posters, originally printed in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine.
Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 (Ed: Make that 2.0) Developer Reference Poster
Microsoft Silverlight Developer Reference Poster
PnP Overview Poster
Patterns & Practices Overview Poster
Smart Client Poster
Patterns & Practices Smart Client Poster
Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster
This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C# 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.
Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster
This poster contains the default key bindings for Visual Basic 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.
Visual C++ 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster
This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C++ 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.

I also just did a search for myself and only came up with four results.

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Update

Blake Niemyjski — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:03:00 GMT

I love seeing updates to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit; I've always been on the lookout for updates to ASP.NET AJAX. There are various AJAX add in solutions, but I think this one is by far the most popular. Do not forget to bookmark the AJAX Control Toolkit project on Microsoft's codeplex website.

"Yesterday the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team released an updated version. You can download it from the http://ajax.asp.net web-site, and run samples built with it on the online samples page here.

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a free download and contains more than 40 additional AJAX controls and components that work on top of the core ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release. In addition to having Microsoft developers contribute, the project also has more than 15 non-Microsoft contributors adding great features and controls.

You can download either a binary version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to use (just add to your toolbox and you are good to go), or you can download the source for the project itself and tweak/extend it if you want (all source is released under a permissive license allowing you to make your own modifications to it).

New ToolkitScriptCombiner Support

One of the biggest improvements with this toolkit release is support for a new "ToolkitScriptCombiner" control. This control allows you to replace the default <asp:scriptmanager> control behavior, and supports the ability to dynamically merge multiple client-side JavaScript scripts into a single file that is downloaded to the client at runtime. Better yet, only the JavaScript needed by the specific controls on the page are included within the combined download, to make it as small as possible.

The big benefit with this feature is that is can significantly reduce the number of JavaScript files the browser needs to download, as well as reduce the overall download size of the scripts. This can provide some really nice performance and load-time wins on pages. Best of all - you don't need to change any code or refactor any script yourself to take advantage of this.

Other ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Improvements

This week's release contains a number of other new improvements, including:

More than 125 bug fixes
Extended client side event support - new client side event handler extensibility points are available with common toolkit server controls
ASP.NET Validation Controls now work with the Toolkit Controls
Accessibility fixes: Slider and AutoComplete have support for high contrast and other controls have JAWS accessibility support built-in when doing AJAX callbacks.
Animation support: More toolkit controls now have generic animation support built-in
Nice design mode improvements for the controls, including: 1) designer support for the TabContainer. You can now select/add/remove tabs within the tabcontainer directly from the designer, and you can directly edit the content and the title, 2) page methods can now automatically be generated for those extender controls that call web-services, 3) nice icon support within the toolbox."

Source (New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release)

ASP.Net Ajax Finally emerges!

Blake Niemyjski — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:14:00 GMT

Last month Scott Guthrie staid that "Atlas" was going to have a new name, you can read more on that here. Microsoft last night launched ASP.NET Ajax v1.0 Beta.

As one Microsoft employee stated "This is quite a significant jump in the product shipping cycle and brings it one step closer to being released with out any 'CTP' or 'Beta' suffix!"(Mark Johnston)

For more information on ASP.NET Ajax and how to download it, please visit (http://ajax.asp.net)

Creating your very own Windows Live Gadget

Blake Niemyjski — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:09:00 GMT

When you plan on working with any Windows Live technology, the best place to stop first is dev.live.com. There is a very nice step by step tutorial located here that will show you how to make a Windows Live Gadget step by step with code samples.

After you get done creating your gadget the best thing to do would be to open it up with drip to detect memory leaks. On the bottom of drips website there are 5 links that you can view that will get you up to date on how to fix your code and find memory leaks. If your not feeling up to getting the lowdown on every aspect of memory leaks you could can check out the following site (telerik.com) for a very quick walk-through on how to use drip and how to use set up your JavaScript code to help prevent leaks.