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Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Examples

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:46:03 GMT

If you've used ASP.NET AJAX then you've likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications.

Silverlight Toolkit Released on CodePlex!

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:07 GMT

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

6 Tips for Working with the ASP.NET AJAX Accordion Control

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Here are 6 tips that could help you out in your projects while dealing with ASP.NET AJAX Accordion Control.

Using jQuery to search Content and creating custom Selector Filters

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

jQuery makes it easy to search content of matched elements by using the :content filter which allows for some pretty cool search effects you can implement with a couple of lines of code. Unfortunately :contains is case sensitive though, but never fear jQuery allows creation of custom filters that allow you to provide a custom case insensitive version.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

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.

A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 learning guide by Stephen Walther

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Silverlight 2 Released

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

Using ASP.NET AJAX Accordion to Dynamically Display DB Content

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:46:04 GMT

This article will help you to set up an Our Authors/ Employee/Top Contributor or any page with a similar concept for your website. In this article, we will see how to dynamically pull data (along with images) from the database and display it using an ASP.NET AJAX Accordion control. We will be using the data from the Employees table of the Northwind database.

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Gu

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Guthrie

Top 5 ASP.NET AJAX Articles You Must Read

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:46:05 GMT

Check out these articles: 1. How to call Server Side function from Client Side Code using PageMethods in ASP.NET AJAX 2. ASP.NET AJAX Calendar Extender - Tips and Tricks 3. Cancelling an Asynchronous PostBack in ASP.NET AJAX 4. ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer - Tips and Tricks 5. ASP.NET AJAX DropDownExtender - Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Introduction to jQuery Article posted

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:46:05 GMT

I've posted Part 1 in a 2 part series on jQuery today. Part 1 covers the client side features of jQuery from the basics all the way through creating simple plugins and extending jQuery. This is a long article that discusses a host of the really useful features that jQuery brings to the table for client side Javascript development. Part 2 will then follow up with server side ASP.NET integration.

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio Released!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:01:11 GMT

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets in a rich integrated way. It also adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippet files on your computer.

Introducing jBlogMvc

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

In this part, I just announced jBlogMvc the ASP.NET MVC and jQuery blogengine which I build in order to learn more about the two new technologies (at least for me)

jQuery ajax with asp.net mvc preview 5

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:31:10 GMT

How to use the AjaxHelpers in preview 5 with jQuery as the ajax engine

Developing Facebook applications in C# with ASP.NET

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:46:05 GMT

write a Facebook application using ASP.NET and C#.

Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Two interesting ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2008 performance tips that were not documented and discovered by chance

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 1

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

JQuery is the star among the growing list of JavaScript libraries. A few of its characteristics are light-weight, cross-browser compatibility and simplicity. A task that would take 10 lines of code with traditional JavaScript can be accomplished with JQuery in just 1 line of code. I write to record the series of very basic lessons I learned about JQuery (my study source is the very readable book JQuery in Action).

StyleCop was just released!

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:31:02 GMT

StyleCop was just released! A tool that does all the styling for you in VS 2008 and 2005. It helps you adhere to styling guidelines and standards of your Code. It is a Great tool.

Starting With jQuery - Dynamically Applying Rules

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:16:21 GMT

This series of posts on using jQuery with no prior knowledge comes to its fourth iteration. This week, we're going to build on the Validation plug-in by looking at how to add and remove rules dynamically.

MSDN Social Bookmarks

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

MSDN Social Bookmarks was released today. This is a candid look at what it's all about and why you should consider using it.