ASP.NET Ajax is a good technology in theory, but the implementation in practice is anything but smooth. There are many little ‘quirks’ that ASP.NET Ajax does to your page; these quirks almost entirely revolve around the handling of viewstate during ajax calls. ASP.NET Ajax passes the viewstate to the server and back during things like [...]
Have you been to http://www.asp.net lately? I have no idea why, but it’s slowing my browser to a crawl for a period of 5-10 seconds just after the DOM renders. I’ve tried across several machines, and it’s really annoying, especially since it happens on every page load instead of just once. I think it’s the [...]
Did you get the chance to read that Visual Studio will be shipping with jQuery support included in the future? This news just made my day, more or less. If you aren’t in the know, jQuery is a really well developed JavaScript framework library. It includes support for things like making AJAX requests, easy DOM [...]
So, the blaq design weekend at Snowshoe was a wonderful time out. If you haven’t gotten a chance to get out there for a few days of mountain biking, it’s definitely worth the experience. Unfortunately, I was totally afraid of breaking my camera so I didn’t take it out on the trails, but I got [...]
If you’re a web developer who’s in charge of creating content management systems, there’s a great control you’ve got to check out – TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a free, open source WYSIWIG text editor. The beauty of it is that it’s feature-rich, it’s platform independent (being written entirely in JavaScript), and it’s extremely easy to configure [...]
I just got done fixing an issue that I was having with the ASP.NET AJAX Timer control, and I figured I’d write about it because there doesn’t seem to be like a ton of documentation out there right now as to exactly what is going on. Here is the scenario: You have an Ajax enabled [...]
