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Internet Explorer 8 is in beta and we're able to improve features that we need. Last week I sent a short message to the Microsoft DPE here in Germany with some comments what I like more in Firefox 3 than in Internet Explorer. Well, there are a couple of great features like the star-it function to easily bookmark a Web page. Another great feature ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth (half a year!) in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." Sometimes when I read code, I kick myself ...

Sonu Kapoor over at DotNetSlackers.com has, not only a great site, but also some great AJAX controls. He's always looking to improve his controls and today he stumbled across something. He was working on a prototype where he had a div nested inside of an AJAX tabControl. The div had the property onscroll set. When the div was inside the ...

Aptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries. At the core of ASP.NET's AJAX support is the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 (direct download), a collection of Javascript classes that you can use in any application, whether it ...

Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods inside a specified type that are marked with the ...

In one of my last posts I blogged about the future of Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) and that I'm not able to do further development on that project. A  lot of my readers feeling sad about this but I had to concentrate more on new technologies that will revolutionize web application development. My recommendation is to move to ASP.NET AJAX ...

I'm happy to see that Ajax.NET Professional is used about 13.3% when using .NET related web applications. Starting with my first post Using a HttpHandler and Attributes to call C# methods in JavaScript in February 2005 the AJAX hype started around the world. Two months later I renamed the project to Ajax.NET and added nearly all features that are ...

On December 5th last year Microsoft Live Labs announced the Volta technology preview , a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and patterns. You architect and built your application as...(read more)

Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit which is used by almost half of the .NET developers that are using AJAX. The second mosed used ...

 I recently gave a presentation @ the local user group ( .NET BC users group http://www.netbc.ca) on Javascript essentials for the ASP.NET Developer.   I would like to thank Medhat Elmasry for the opportunity to speak to his fine group. ---- Here are the event details: Date & Time: Wednesday, 2007/12/05, 6:30 ...