DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with AJAX

MultiHandleSliderExtender could not be set on property MultiHandleSlid

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:34:59 GMT

I was working with the AJAX MultiHandleSliderExtender control, the thing that bother me the most is the error listed below at design time. The code didn't throw any error at runtime. Error Creating Control - MultiHandleSliderExtender1 'cc1:MultiHandleSliderExtender could not be set on property MultiHandleSliderTargets'

Script Manager VS Toolkit Script Manager

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:08:57 GMT

Demonstrates how using a Toolkit Script Manager instead of the regular Script Manager boosts the performance of an ASP.NET AJAX page.

An Approach to Multiple Browser Session Detection with AJAX

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:50:13 GMT

A look into a technique at detecting multiple browser sessions associated with a single server session; a condition that can lead to unexpected corruption in applications with naive session reliance. Consideration is given to performance and scalability while attempting to keep the solution simple and straightforward.

Asp.net Ajax Error Handling

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:29:36 GMT

ASP.Net Ajax is great for developing web applications. However there are some issues in presenting server side exceptions in the browser nicely. I actually needed the entire stack trace to be shown in the screen. Whenever I had an error while using Ajax, I used to get an alert with error message. Sometimes even I got notification in the status bar of the browser window. Instead of getting the error on the alert box, I wanted to get it on the body or label in the body of the browser window.

Enable cross-site XMLHttpRequest with W3C spec CORS

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:55:01 GMT

Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 implement the CORS specification, using XMLHttpRequest as an "API container" that sends and receives the appropriate headers on behalf of the web developer, thus allowing cross-site requests. IE8 implements part of the CORS specification, using XDomainRequest as a similar "API container" for CORS, enabling simple cross-site GET and POST requests.

Visual WebGui 6.4 beta 1 released w/ jQuery integration

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:04:37 GMT

The new Ajax applications framework version offers upgraded performance, scalability and complete developer and designer freedom to design and customize Web 2.0 like user interfaces including increased customizability with the new control level designer, theme designer and jQuery integration

Performance Optimizations Made By JavaScript Minimizers

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:06:37 GMT

In the first post about JavaScript compression and the different levels supported by the three major competitors in the JavaScript minimization, obfuscation, and optimization tools space. I the article I discussed which tool provided the best compression in regards to the resulting byte count. And found that Google took the over all crown with Microsoft following very closely behind. This post will look at the performance optimizations made to the code, after it is run through the JavaScript Minimizers

Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor.

Visual WebGui Ajax framework/platform

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:22:23 GMT

.NET #1 open source data centric Ajax Framework & Platform. It provides the simplest, VB6 desktop-like Ajax development. Point & Click Windows or 2.0 User interfaces designer..

SharpTemplate - A strongly typed HTML templating solution for Script#

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:05:37 GMT

SharpTemplate is a HTML templating engine that seamlessly integrates with Script# to provide compile time, strongly typed, super efficient HTML templating capabilities for productive rich web application development. Some of its advantages are listed below. * Converts HTML into C# that gets compiled by Script# * Benefits from strong typing for all variable / API references that occur within the HTML * Generated HTML templates are super efficient due to compile time pre-processing that helps avoid regex matching in JavaScript unlike many other templating engines * Familiar templating syntax (based upon Asp.Net)

10 Super jQuery and Ajax Scripts for Web Developers

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:54:02 GMT

In this post I have shared free jQuery and Ajax scripts to help our upcoming web developers. In this list includes - A Drop-Down Menu Plugin for jQuery, Rotating jQuery Tabs, Sliding Login Panel with jQuery, AJAX Loading Panel, Mysql Ajax Table Editor, jQuery youtube playlist plugin etc.

How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:45:01 GMT

How to modify the new ASP.NET Ajax Script Loader to inject jQuery 1.4 instead of 1.3.2, without waiting on the team to update Start.js. Also covers how to make it use jQuery Validate 1.6 instead of 1.5.5.

Early Azure adopter sees financial benefits of cloud computing

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:08:14 GMT

When Advanced Telemetry, an energy consumption monitoring and management provider, realized they could not accommodate their rapid growth with on-site infrastructure, they looked at cloud computing options to expand their computing resources.

14 Days of jQuery

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:34:42 GMT

We're excited to bring you fourteen consecutive days of new releases to celebrate the release of jQuery 1.4. You'll notice that we're excited about the number fourteen since jQuery 1.4 is being released on the birthday of jQuery (January 14th) . So be sure to come back each day as another announcement is made and new content is released!

Consuming .NET Webservice by Javascript

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:02:23 GMT

I have a webService service.asmx and I would like to call and consum this webservice using XMLHttpRequest and SOAP.

Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:59:46 GMT

A step by step tutorial which will walk you through the steps to: 1. Run an asynchronous SQL query against a database using JQuery 2. Serialize the data as a JSON string 3. Render the table data dynamically with jQuery to build an HTML table.

How to Send an E-mail using Gmail in ASP.Net

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:48:11 GMT

There are many ways that an application can use to communicate with users. Some users are used to message box popping up and some users are annoyed because this affect the work flow. Some think it's better to read these messages later. One more thing I saw is that most of the users hate the yellow screen of death. Maybe we need not to show them this message and trap this globally and send this messages t our self.

Set Page Position after asyncPostback in AJAX

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:42:49 GMT

This article explains a simple trick to set the page position to any coordinates after async Postback.

Handling Exceptions using jQuery and ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:57:37 GMT

Using AJAX has become one of the de facto practices in many web based RIAs. The use of jQuery is on the rise in many web applications, especially the ones built using ASP.NET MVC. Making AJAX calls using jQuery is quick and easy. A typical web request can have an expected response or an exception. It is therefore important to catch exceptions when we make any AJAX calls so that we can show some message which makes sense to the user.

My top 3 IT New Year's Resolutions

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:26:58 GMT

As we head into 2010, technological companies and experts are making their predictions as to what the New Year can expect to bring while reviewing the best of 2009. Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox a .NET based web/cloud solution, has three personal resolutions to share with developers and the IT community, focusing on commitments that he is making.

How to add AJAX effects to your site in minutes

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:23:57 GMT

Use JQuery javascript library to achieve professional looking sites, with popular Web 2.0 interaction

HTML based file upload/download to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:23:30 GMT

In this article, i will examined how to upload/download file from HTML client to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#. This approach can be very handy for application integration. Here is our html code that will consume HttpHandlers.

MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic 6 Simplicity for the web and cloud

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:58:56 GMT

Have you asked yourself why Web development tasks are so complex? Why must you master so many different coding languages and moving-target standards to develop a single line-of-business Web application? Do you understand what it takes to optimize an application's performance and security and to minimize the bandwidth and the CPU consumption without drastically raising the development costs and time-to-market?

New Ajax Data View for Microsoft SharePoint

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:51:00 GMT

Virtosoftware has released a new Microsoft SharePoint Ajax web part for convenient displaying SharePoint list and SQL items - Virto DataGrid. New Virto DataGrid web part for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, presented today by Virtosoftware, provides users with a wide range of tools for displaying items SharePoint list and SQL items in a single grid view. With the new easy-to-install and simple-to-use web part users do not need to work with SharePoint Designer to make custom grids anymore. Virto DataGrid is a ready-to-use Ajax-enabled JavaScript control that displays items from SharePoint lists (from a site or a site collection) or SQL items in a single grid.

Design of Selenium tests for ASP.NET: Testing AJAX

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:03:17 GMT

When it comes to AJAX, UI tests started to behave unexpectedly. Sometimes they fail, sometimes pass. This article shows how to handle AJAX requests in Selenium tests from ASP.NET