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Yesterday’s post reviewed how to setup a WCF web service to work with JSON from top to bottom. Today I am going to review what needs to be done to use JQuery to work with those WCF end points. If you have not already done so please download the example
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Saturday I gave a presentation for the first time at the Southern California Code Camp on how to use JQuery to perform AJAX operations against a WCF Endpoint. Today I want to review how to create a WCF service that supports JSON and how to properly create
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What a wonderful showing yesterday at the SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton for both of my sessions. One thing I definitely learned is making AJAX calls to a WCF service with JQuery is in high demand and 60 minutes does not do it justice! Thanks for all the
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I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, ‘How do you create web sites so fast?’.
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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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I have really gotten into using JQuery a lot this year, as I think just about anyone who is a web developer has in the past year or two. ASP.NET developers we inevitably will use Web Form controls, which have an Id property we define. This Id property
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Over the past couple of years I have written and presented on custom HttpModules . One of my examples is how to spin up a background thread to perform work not related to processing a web request. I thought I would extend the usefulness of this technique
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Trolling the ASP.NET forums this week I came across a good question, “ setting the background on a master page div at run-time? ”. Even though the person posted he found an acceptable solution before I posted my response, I think the user has a complicated
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Another common issue developers have using HttpHandlers is indicating what type of content is being sent to the browser. This is done by setting the MIME TYPE in the request header. In ASP.NET, whether you are doing it in an HttpHandler or a Page, you
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I create a lot of custom HttpHandlers to performa all sorts of tasks. I like them because you get complete control over the content produced by the server to satisfy the request. Occasionally I need to interact with the user's session. The other day
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Yesterday I answered a question on the ASP.NET forums on how to create a ‘frame’ around an image . I answered it with some code from the new Beer House I wrote last fall. In the book I show how to add a drop-shadow around an image using CSS. The code
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Making any application as user friendly as possible is the primary goal of any User Experience Engineer, that is the person who is responsible for creating the applications actual UI layer. Back in the time of long, long ago I learned that users like
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The phrase “teaching an old dog new tricks” comes to mind as I start this entry. Nearly two years ago I wrote about how to hide a DropDownList box behind another layer . The reason why this is important is a DropDownList is rendered as a system control
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Late last month I made a post about testing E-Mail functionality with Donovan Brown’s Neptune . Several of you made comments about other utilities and methods that may be used to test SMTP (that’s E-Mail for those of you in Rio Linda) facilities in your
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One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and
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