The first in a series of posts dealing with common misconceptions and mistakes when it comes to using ASMX services as a backend for AJAX.

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I’ll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

Since a lot of people are having trouble with it, I want to share one method you can use to completely isolate your code from the ".d" problem. In this post, I will show you how to detect the “.d” and how you can completely isolate your $.ajax success handler from it.

It’s hard to believe that JavaScript is already well over a decade old. Often relegated to marginal tasks in its early years, JavaScript has grown to become a pillar of modern web development. With the current popularity of DHTML and AJAX, it can be difficult to find a site that doesn’t use JavaSc...

The problem of how to handle dates in JSON is one of the more troublesome issues that may arise when directly calling ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods.. Since the question of how I handle this problem is something asked often in emails and in comments on other posts here, I want to address...

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

A few examples about how $(document).ready() and pageLoad() differ, practical examples of when both are useful, and a third alternative that is more suitable in some cases.

An example of how to detect errors that occur when requesting ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods with jQuery, how to handle them, and how to more attractively present errors to the user.

Back in September last year (2008), I posted a demo about Username Availability Validator Control. This control developed by the community on a contest initiated by Dave Ward on August 2008 as I remember. At that time the control was in beta. On October 2008 the control was released to public on ...

Reviewing Dave's stats for the year, you might think the only topic Dave wrote about is jQuery. Of the posts he has written in 2008, 80% of the most popular posts have been jQuery related.

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

An example of using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to display the result of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel's partial postback as a modal confirmation dialog.

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.