March, 2007

While working on some documentation and presentations for MS AJAX Animation ( wait for it , its gonna rock !! ) , I made what you see in the demo video. Its basic premise is this : Allow the User to plot points on a plane Then trigger an animation that goes over all the points and stops Why do this ? No Perceptible use , pure fun factor . I just though that it'd be cool to control an animation by clicking...

I hang out at the forums a lot .( http://forums.asp.net/1022/ShowForum.aspx ), I go by phanatic. Looking at a couple of threads let me know that there are no examples of the caseAnimation anywhere :-( Ok, so I built a simple sample which illustrates the use of a CaseAnimation . See demo here So , here we go .... 1) Add a reference to the AjaxControlToolkit to your page. <%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit...

The Sys.Preview.UI.Effects Namespace contains a couple of animations that one can use in their applications. Here , we will talk about how to use the FadeAnimation thats present in the Sys.Preview.UI.Effects NameSpace. The Scripts that are to be included are : MicrosoftAjax.js PreviewScript.js PreviewGlitz.js Call the Initialize function to do the same to the Ajax Scripts :-) <script language= ...

We have quite often come across scenarios where-in we need to execute certain client-Side code at certain intervals . What we often ended up doing is to use the window.setTimeOut() and the window.setInterval functions of IE to execute an expression at certain intervals of time . The Sys.Preview.Timer Provides an abstraction over these functions and makes it easier to define Functions to be Executed...

We will talk about how to use the MS-Ajax Animation Framework without any server-side code. The sample completely illustrates how to instantiate and use the Animation Controls by including the proper script references. 1) Include the following scripts in your HTML Page MicrosoftAjax.js ( download from Here ) Timer.js ( downlod from Here ) BaseScripts.js Common.js Animations...

Have you ever felt that this looks ugly ? Did you ever want to customize the Image , the text, the Icons ? You would probably want to customize it to the Look and feel of your web application. We are gonna talk about how to customize the Alert Box in IE . When we are done , it will look like this . We can change the Default ALERT function with Javascript . window.alert= function ( alertMessage ){ ...