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Boost ASP.NET performance with deferred content loading

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:31:02 GMT

A comprehensive example of how to improve the perceived speed of your pages, by implementing user controls to encapsulate secondary content and then deferring them until primary content is displayed.

Three copies of ASP.NET AJAX in Action up for grabs

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:31:06 GMT

I don't know if this is too tangential to post here, but free ASP.NET AJAX books seem like they'd probably be of interest. Mainly, I want to make sure that none of you miss this giveaway if you're interested, because DNK has been one of my best sources of quality traffic over this past year. I really appreciate it.

Exploring one of MS AJAX's often overlooked features.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:16:03 GMT

A closer examination of ASP.NET AJAX's $addHandler function and several real world examples of its use.

Seamless inline text editing with ASP.NET AJAX

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:31:02 GMT

A demonstration of how to use ASP.NET AJAX to implement a Label that swaps to a TextBox for editing when clicked and then saves its value when editing is completed.

Updated your web.config, but Sys is still undefined?

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:01:02 GMT

How to use ASP.NET AJAX's Application.init event to safely call JavaScript after the framework is initialized and avoid the dreaded Sys is undefined error.

Robust ASP.NET control referencing in JavaScript

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:31:02 GMT

How to reference your controls in JavaScript by their true ClientID, so that changes in nesting and/or location won't break your client script.

Simplify ASP.NET AJAX client-side page initialization

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:31:02 GMT

pageLoad() is automatically wired up as a handler to Application.Load, which can be used to avoid window.OnLoad or body.OnLoad.

Display Data Updates in Real-Time with ASP.NET AJAX

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:01:04 GMT

An example of how to implement real-time 'spy' type updates, using ASP.NET AJAX, web methods, and .NET caching. Full source code included.

Why ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanels are dangerous

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:16:02 GMT

Replace those UpdatePanels with WebMethods and JSON.