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Last Summer, around August 2008, I started work on my latest book and spent the next 5 months working on updates to the Beer House application . WROX asked me to write the book and only had 2 requirements: 1) Use Entity Framework 2) Add more AJAX to the
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Today I want to keep extending my series on Thin ASP.NET by adding some more user experience features, Default Focus and Default Button. Early in my windows experience (circa 1992) I learned a truth, that keyboarding through a form is so much faster than
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Back in January I wrote about making a thin contact form in an effort to demonstrate how to make ASP.NET forms lighter and much more user responsive. The key to making the form more responsive was to avoid using the WebForm and UpdatePanel conventions.
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I was trolling the ASP.NET forums tonight and found a very good question from ctrlctrl, . He wanted to know how to ‘grey’ out the page while he was waiting on a long running process on the server. The answer is pretty simple, it involves a little AJAX
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In my last post I waxed philosophically about the progression of ASP.NET . Today I want to start actually demonstrating how to take ASP.NET to the next level, at least in my opinion. The first thing I always add to a new web site is a contact form. Basically
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This morning I was trolling the ASP.NET Forums and saw this question about registering the Virtual Earth control (it is really not a control, but that is not relevant to this post) and realized I had the same issue just the other day. The person posting
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I am slowly but surely started to really get the hang of this AJAX stuff, especially with the ASP.NET AJAX framework. I have been having an issue with some basic existing JavaScript working with the framework though. Finally I broke down and read the
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After all the demo code, broken tutorials, etc, ASP.NET Ajax is in version 1.0. I am actually working on a production implementation of the Modal Pop-Up fromthe ASP.NET AJAX toolkit today, so this was great timing for me. I will follow up with my experiences
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