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Accessing Cross-Domain ADO.NET Data Services from the Silverlight Client Library

When we built the client library for Silverlight in Silverlight 2.0 , the underlying Network Stack...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/20/2008

Viewer Mail , #1

Disclaimer  : These are my thoughts and opinions , although I work on the Astoria team , I am...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/16/2008

Astoria & IIS , HTTP 400 Bad Request on Posting Large Payloads to an astoria service

We’ve seen this in the labs and also reported by our customers on the forums, If you try to post a...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/05/2008

DataServiceContext , Detect if there are pending changes

Hi , I ran into this interesting scenario in the forums today . How does one find out if there are...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/03/2008

Happy Birthday to Me , Again!!!

Its that time of the year again ! I grow a year older ,every year , on the year. This happened to me...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/16/2008

Ajax preview 2 : Declarative Instantiation of AjaxControlToolkit Controls

Today ,we will talk about using the Declarative Syntax to instantiate certain AjaxControlToolkit...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/12/2008

Interim Release: Making SL2 Beta 2 Clients Work With .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 RTM Servers

Cross-posted from here : Interim Release: Making SL2 Beta 2 Clients Work With .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 RTM...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/02/2008

SuperHero Dreams - 2

I dream I am Captain America, I would represent grand ideals beyond personal grief, I would be...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/27/2008

SuperHero Dreams - 1

I dream about the night I dream I am batman driving the batmobile , all black I dream I am punching...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/27/2008

Documentation for the AjaxControlToolkit

Ready for some documentation for the ATK controls ? To skip my journey to create this , download the...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/27/2008

Entities , How many ways do I count thee ?

Its a common ask that we introduce aggregating mechanisms in Data services so that one can do a...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/17/2008

MSDN Docs for Ado.net Data Services RTM

Client Library : System.Data.Services.Client Server : System.Data.Services White papers coming soon...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/12/2008

Code Snippets for Common Tasks in Ado.net Data Services

[These code snippets are based on features in the SP1 RTM release, Read about it here : RTM is here!...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/11/2008

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Released !!

Here you go ! Install the latest bits of Astoria and play to your heart's content .... Download here...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/11/2008

Welcome to the Dark Side , Code Snippets

Hi, For most of the code samples that I post on my blog , I use “Insert Code for Windows Live...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/03/2008

ASP.NET ajax 4.0 , More DataBinding help with the DataView

With how easy it is to write simple & complicated templates, you would want to debug the...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/27/2008

ASp.net Ajax 4.0 , Master-Details View with the DataView , Part 2

If you are just tuning in , you can read Part 1 here Parent Entity Child Entity List Properties...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/26/2008

ASp.net Ajax 4.0 , Master-Details View with the DataView

By now , you must have heard about the new JavaScript templating engine with the release of ASP.NET...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/24/2008

Software Development MEME

Yep , I got Tagged . And by none other than Pablo Castro !!. Now that I’ve finished gloating , let...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/17/2008

Set Based Operations in Ado.net Data Services

Today's Post is co-Authored by Linq Ninja and my Colleague MarceloLinq to Astoria does not support...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/16/2008

Working with Associations in ADO.NET Data Services

I’ve seen that users are having some question about how to deal with certain types of relations...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 07/02/2008

Astoria Silverlight Client Failing with FireFox 3.0

Hi all, By now , anyone running a SIlverlight application Astoria Silverlight Client library in...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 06/26/2008

Debugging WCF Data Services

When developing your service , you might run into some issues and you want to debug your service....

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 06/18/2008

Add Windows Live Messenger to your website/blog to chat with your Visitors

Ok , this has to be the coolest thing ever !!Angus just announced this over on his blog , you can...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 11/07/2007

GridViewFilterExtender : Filter GridView Rows Client-Side

Download Source Code and Sample application : Excel's Filter Dialog My GridView Filter Extender The...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/27/2007

Astoria DataSource Extender

Download Source and Example : Most of you must have heard about Astoria. Read More about it here ,...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/19/2007

MSDN Style Choose a Language Extender

Download Sample and Source Code : Sample Application : Source Code : Quite recently , someone asked...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 10/08/2007

Pretty Sweet ! All the Community members who contributed to the new toolkit Release got featured on...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/27/2007

Expand Accordion Panes On Mouse Over Header

This is a common requirement I see among users of the accordion , How do I Open Accordion Panes...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/10/2007

How Do I learn more about the AjaxControlToolkit Controls ?

Use Debuggers to see Object State and associated methods : Use the WebDevhelper from Nikhil Kothari...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 09/06/2007

How to : Re-use Animation Extenders in a page

Download Sample Code : while working with the AnimationExtender on an ASPX Page ,One would run into...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 08/15/2007

How to : Perform Operations on all instances of a Ajax Control Extender on a page

Consider a scenario wherein you have a lot of control Extenders on a page and you want to conduct...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 06/20/2007

How to : Use a Key Value Pair in your AutoCompleteExtender ( updated again... )

Hi all, This has come up time and again on the asp.net Ajax forums and has become the Top Voted...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 06/19/2007

Scripting Animations from the Ms Ajax AnimationExtender

An ignored / unknown / very useful feature of the animation Framework is that it allows you to...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 05/31/2007

My Update to the AutoCompleteExtender

HI , I was asked to work on the beta AjaxControlToolkit Patch Utility Tool from the Asp.Net...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 05/24/2007

Howto: Detect if IIS7 is installed on a Vista Machine

Quite Often we come across a Need to find out if IIS 7 is installed before we install any software...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 04/17/2007

HowTo : Change Visible Tab Using JavaScript in the MS AJAX TabControl

I have seen this in the forums a lot .. "How do I change the Visible Tab in the MS AJAX TabControl...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 04/16/2007

MS AJAX AnimationExtender : How Many Ways Do I Play thee ? ( Updated )

We will discuss the various ways in which one can animate a visual element using the MS AJAX...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 04/13/2007

HowTo : Customize Rendering of AutoCompleteExtender 1

Registering your own handlers when Items in the SearchResults are Selected Hi, Quite a few people...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 04/09/2007

Expirements with Ms AJAX 1 : Plot a Path and follow it

While working on some documentation and presentations for MS AJAX Animation ( wait for it , its...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 03/26/2007

HowTo : Sys.Preview.UI.Effects.FadeAnimation

The Sys.Preview.UI.Effects Namespace contains a couple of animations that one can use in their...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 03/15/2007

Sys.Preview.Timer Control - A Client Side Timer

We have quite often come across scenarios where-in we need to execute certain client-Side code at...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 03/15/2007

Using MS Ajax Animations From the Client-Side

We will talk about how to use the MS-Ajax Animation Framework without any server-side code. The...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 03/12/2007

Customizing the Alert Messages in IE

Have you ever felt that this looks ugly ? Did you ever want to customize the Image , the text, the...

Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 03/03/2007

Documentation of Client Side Methods Exposed By MS AJAX Controls

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Author: Phani Raju MSFT Date: 02/20/2007

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