Select presentations and webcasts from the The AJAX Experience 2008 conference are now available. View them from here .

Recently someone asked me about the best practices for AJAX performance. Though this information is scattered all around, I thought it might be useful to capture it in a single blog post. So here you go >>> The AJAX performance tips...

I know this comes in a bit late from me, but nevertheless. The Code Focus Magazine - 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 was focused around IE8. If you did not get a chance to look at it as yet, and are interested - you could download a PDF copy of the same...

It is for the first time that I attended and presented at a web-developer conference. That too, one of the conferences which surely sees amongst the major turnout of JavaScript influentials - “ The AJAX Experience 2008 ”. My talk was around "Analyzing...

In this post, I just wanted to lay focus on some of the improvements that have been done in the JScript engine shipped as a part of IE 8 Beta release . These improvements include: · Changes to the JScript Garbage Collector to reduce circular memory...

As a follow up my previous post JScript Performance in IE8 Beta , here is another set of reviews that I found about the JScript engine shipped in IE8 beta. · “…SunSpider JavaScript test on Internet Explorer 8. Previously it failed miserably coming...

The cat’s finally out of the bag. IE 8 Beta is finally live and available publically for download. Here is a link to the blog post JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers detailing the work done by the JScript team. Here are a first...

Here is a series of posts on “Classes in JScript” written by Ritesh from the JScript team at MS: Classes in Jscript - Part I Classes in JScript – Part II: Instance Properties / Methods & Class Properties / Methods Classes in JScript – Part...

Many a times, Java Script developers are perplexed by the fact that the same piece of Java Script code written by them behaves differently on the different web browsers. The reason for the same is the different implementations of the ECMA Script language...

Here are links to a virtual series written by Sheetal, one of the developers in the JScript team on Jscript COM interop · Interoperability of JScript with COM · Calling functions of COM object from JScript · Script CallBack from COM · Passing...

One of the things that I did not capture on my Quick JScript References blog was a repository of the online MS community resources where one can post questions specific to JScript . The reason was that we were in the process of establishing a JScript...

Looking for documentation regarding the different flavors of JScript and not sure which one is correct. While I was adding the documentation pages to my blog, I thought it might be worth to post them at the blog as well as a follow up to my blog regarding...

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of Windows® Vista for for Windows® 2000/XP as well as Windows® 2003 Server. Below are the download links for the same Download Windows Script...

Recently, MS made a public release of the Ajax view tool and I thought it's surely worth mentioning and spreading the word around. Overview snippet of the tool … The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and...

There are three different types of JScript engines that MS currently offers to the users. In this blog I would like to discuss more about the differences between them and would go into the reasoning for three different types sometime later. JScript...

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines – a quote from an unknown source but so true. With the release of the Visual J# 2.0 Redist-SE over, the time has come for me to change and look for bigger and brighter challenges. I recently moved to...

Visual J# applications were designed to be built in an “x86” only mode using Visual Studio 2005. The main reason for the same was the fact that Visual J# Redist 2.0 supported execution of J# applications natively only on 32-bit platforms. On 64-bit platforms...

MSBuild is a build platform for Microsoft and Visual Studio. Details about MSBuild tasks are documented here . Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition comes with MSBuild support enabled (including cross compilation) from the...

The Visual J# compilers (both 32-bit and 64-bit) shipped with J# Redist 2.0-SE now support a new command-line switch “ /platform ” with the following available options for cross-compilation: x86 : for use when target platform is x86. x64 : for...

The 64-bit editions (x64 and IA64) of Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition enable users to take full advantage of the 64-bit .NET Framework (v2.0 and v3.0) and the underlying 64-bit hardware platform without having to deal...

The ENU Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition for x86, x64 and IA64 platforms is released to the web (download locations below). This release enables all Visual J# users to execute the Visual J# applications natively on the 64-bit platforms...

A customer recently wrote the following to us- My organization is currently considering either .NET or Java (J2EE) as our enterprise application development platform. I am sold on .NET as I believe that:- · There are cheaper resources ...

I know I have kept away from blogging for quite some time now. There were pleasant changes in life that I was adapting to and kept me busy for a while. Beyond that, I would say it was some procrastination which kept me away. Well, so here I am, kicking...

As I promised, I have posted the JLCA 3.0 cheat sheet for the users on my Blogs. The aim of this exercise has been for the JLCA users to understand the conversion process using the Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 and the issues they might face...

JLCA 3.0 includes a new set of features to improve the tool’s usability. Special source code analysis has enabled this version to produce better converted code and could produce customized converted code. These new features are the following: Visual...