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The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN)
I keep looking for the URL’s to get Microsoft Ajax, jQuery, the MVC Ajax libraries and more from our new shiny CDN (check here if you’ve not heard of it)... and I can never remember where they are. So this post is for my benefit, not yours J The links Read More...
Loading Scripts Late
On the ASP.NET ScriptManager control there is a useful little property that very few people have heard of called “LoadScriptsBeforeUI”. What does it do? Well, simply put... · When “true” (the default) it will render <script> tags for each script Read More...
Executing JavaScript after a Partial Render
I had a fun day debugging some ASP.NET plus jQuery this week, and came across something I’ve known is possible for some time, but that I’ve never actually needed to do... and that was to ensure a bit of JavaScript ran once an UpdatePanel had refreshed Read More...
Do you need web client development help?
Then tell us what you need! Blaine has blogged a link to a survey that patterns & practices will use to help them understand what challenges that are affecting you the most... so that they can choose the right areas to focus effort in providing guidance. Read More...
Enforcing Unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is a concept that’s been around for quite a while, but it’s now finally starting to make its way into the mainstream. The basic idea is that you should separate your JavaScript from your HTML – so instead of; < a href ="Default.aspx" Read More...
Using Anchor Links with AJAX History
A customer asked me about doing this the other day, and I’d never come across it, although it seems obvious now! If I have a page that makes use of ASP.NET’s server-side ScriptManager AJAX history features but also want to link to an anchor on that page, Read More...
AJAX Script Patterns: Service Agent
I’ve been thinking for a while about how people tend to build AJAX applications, as there seems to be something a lot of people have forgotten. This post examines how applying a pattern you probably know very well to AJAX could help – and leaves it to Read More...
Virtual Earth meets MVC
Something I do quite a bit with customers is to help them understand and use Virtual Earth... plus I’ve been doing some overviews of the beta of the ASP.NET MVC Framework, so it seemed a great combination. How would you best combine them? Note : This Read More...
Multiple Views with MVC
In my previous two posts ( one and two ) discussing the use of AJAX within an ASP.NET MVC Framework application, I’ve tried to demonstrate some ways that the framework can be extended or modified. In keeping with this approach, I thought I’d show how Read More...
To AJAX, or not to AJAX - rendering in ASP.NET MVC
One issue I have had on numerous customer engagements is that there has been a good opportunity to use AJAX functionality, but I need to support a significant user base that cannot use Javascript. Typically this is to meet accessibility requirements (and Read More...
AJAX support in the ASP.NET MVC Framework
[ Edit : Note that this post is based on a pre-release, and now out of date CTP of the MVC framework. I'd suggest you use it to understand concepts, but look elsewhere now if you're after up to date facts. I've recently added a post about Virtual Earth Read More...
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