Chris Love's Official ASP.NET Blog

Using JQuery and JSON to Interact with a WCF Service via AJAX

Chris Love — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Creating a WCF Service for JSON

Chris Love — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:24:05 GMT

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...(read more)

WCF and JQuery Using JSON

Chris Love — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:10:03 GMT

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...(read more)

First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule

Chris Love — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:52:00 GMT

Last week I wrote about voting for my MIX sessions , and if you have not voted for me, then why not? Go now and vote, you can come back afterwards and keep reading, I’ll wait. Meanwhile I wanted to publish my upcoming speaking dates. I am going to be...(read more)

Vote for Chris Love in the MIX Open Call

Chris Love — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:23:36 GMT

This year MIX is letting you, the community, determine some of the content available during the conference. I, along with many others submitted different sessions to be voted on by, well anyone! You can choose up to 5 sessions . Voting closes on January...(read more)

New Decade, New Challenges and Opportunities

Chris Love — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:38:20 GMT

Happy New Decade!!! Its hard to believe I have reached my 4th decade here on Earth, but I have. The last decade was full of challenges, good times and many bad. New Years morning I received confirmation I have received the ASP.NET MVP award for the third...(read more)

Creating a Twitter Like TextBox Character Warning Using JQuery

Chris Love — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:34:00 GMT

The other day I gave an intro to JQuery Lunch and Learn to my client’s development team. I walked them through creating a simple JQuery Plugin to create a character remaining feature like Twitter has on its web site. The ingredients for this plugin involved...(read more)

Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector

Chris Love — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:47:12 GMT

If you have been using JQuery I hope you have started using the JQuery UI library. I use the JQuery UI Datepicker plugin to left users select a date from a calendar when they enter a date input field. The plugin works great, but an issue was raised by...(read more)

Things I Do To Travel on the Cheap

Chris Love — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:17:54 GMT

I am a tightwad when it comes to money and I am proud of it. I listen to Clark Howard and Dave Ramsey all the time, you should too; Rice and Beans Beans and Rice FTW!! Anyway, I love to travel, which is why I love speaking at Code Camps and User Groups....(read more)

Validating A Username Using JQuery and ASP.NET Membership Provider

Chris Love — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:41 GMT

Earlier this year I wrote an application that allowed the user to fill in a username as part of the registration. I thought I would add a creature comfort to the form by making a non-intrusive validation of the username against the ASP.NET membership...(read more)

Using CSS Selectors

Chris Love — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:08:32 GMT

Over the last year I have been spending a lot of time re-learning how to use CSS. Since ASP.NET was released the use of Web Controls had made me CSS and HTML ignorant. With the advent of ASP.NET MVC and JQuery combined with the increasing demand for richer...(read more)

Working with the Internet Explorer Developer Tools

Chris Love — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:26:25 GMT

Internet Explorer has been out for a while now, and I am very pleased with it, especially from a developer’s perspective. First I am more and more appreciative of the IE team getting CSS compliant, this is making it so much easier to create a consistent...(read more)

More Fun with Regular Expressions : Word and Paragraph Parsing

Chris Love — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Trolling the ASP.NET forums again this morning, I know I do it a lot, I found a question trying to parse the paragraphs out of a series of text. So I knew I had to answer it. The regular expression needed is '(.+)'. This tells the Regular Expression object...(read more)

Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Chris Love — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:36:00 GMT

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?’....(read more)

$$$ With Affiliate Marketing

Chris Love — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:28:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my new talk on making money with affiliate marketing. I loved the interactions and wish we had another 75 minutes to get more detailed. I am posting my slide deck and resources for you to download. And remember; DO SOMETHING!!!...(read more)