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I have been doing some performance and load testing of a web application I have been working on lately. Most of my previous experience was with the 2005 flavour of VSTS and I was keen to play with the 2008 version to see what improvements have been made. This web application is quite heavy in terms of Javascript and AJAX feature usage. I am happy ...

Don't know if this has already been discussed at length before, but I found an interesting little tool from Microsoft Research for profiling the Javascript functionality in your AJAX applications. Its called AjaxView and can remotely monitor any AJAX web app that is currently on the web, locally or whatever. You basically, install a small ...

Wally has put up some new podcasts around using Google maps and virtual earth with ASP.NET AJAX. You can check em out at the following links: Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with Google Maps. ASP.NET AJAX with Virtual Earth These podcasts allow you to explore mapping possibilities with the 2 popular mapping services currently available.  in ...

Remix, is heading downunder and registrations are now open. You can register here.This event is especially cool for the many people who did not get a chance to attend the actual Mix event in the United States (which is many of us). Dates and locations are: Sydney   May 20    Powerhouse Museum   Harris Street, Ultimo ...

I have demo'ed this technique before and talked about it various times, but I recently used this on another engagement which really helped alleviate some of the initial page load times and size. In my scenario, we had a page utilising the AJAX Control toolkit and which utilised the excellent Tab control to contain a number of separate display ...

I thought I'd pass on some link love to Damian Edwards, the resident readify CSS god. Here recently did an RDN presentation on using CSS effectively with ASP.NET and the first of a series of articles on that very subject can be found here. its a great article and well worth your time to read, especially if you want to make ASP.NET are good CSS ...

Tuesday 30th October and Wednesday 31st October, I am doing a presentation on the AJAX Control Toolkit. It is part of the readify developer network series of presentations. I am doing a primer presentation which is more introductory and runs for a relatively short period of time. Chris Burrows will then follow through with a Team Foundation server ...

In a previous post, I mentioned an obscure ASP.NET issue that had me scratching my head for a while. In order to track it down, I had to resort some dodgy debugging techniques which I wouldn't call exactly scientific nor particularly complex, but they did help, so thought I'd share. Basically, the page had many controls, and nested controls ...

I was experiencing the issues described here where I was getting no colourisation of JavaScript and no Intellisense. I applied the fix mentioned in the post but it didn't work. Turned out I was missing the file itself file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Microsoft.JScript.AuthoringServices.dll and a complete search of the ...

Had an issue on a current project where a page was being loaded twice for each request, although it was a little different for each browser. Under IE, this particular page was loaded, then the 'Default.aspx' page in the same directory was loaded. In Firefox, the same page was loaded twice. This was verified by simply placing breakpoints in the ...