Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

So much stuff going on. Last week I did a lot of performance and scaling research and I think that is reflected here. Client-Side Use Ensure to load client scripts on demand - Hey, this is pretty good. If you come to my Front-End performance talks I talk about loading scripts at the bottom of the page, this takes it to another level. Project ...

I suddenly found myself getting this error the first time I tried to run a freshly minted ASP.NET 3.5 web site with the ScriptManager in place on the Master Pages. I did a quick search, but only found some references from the time before 3.5, and they did not seem to apply at all. I continued my search for an answer and came across an article by ...

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 ASP.NET AJAX documentation, gasp. Turns out you need to register your custom scripts with the ...

So after a long period of writing and researching I have finally submitted the last content to Wiley for the upcoming ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Blueprint book. I think they have it slated for a December release date. This has been a very long and trying process. The format of the book is designed so a reader should be able to open up to any two pages ...

I use the MSDN web site all the time to look up information. In fact I generally do not install a local version of the Visual Studio or .NET help files because I tend to be online 99% of the time and the MSDN site is always current.  Recently they did a complete site redesign and there are some great new features about the site. The #1 new ...

A little upfront disclaimer, this is an opinionated rant. The ASP.NET Ajax framework and Control Toolkit were officially released last week. I am actually starting to get a little excited with the ability to easily do prudent real-time interactions back to the server from the client. As I have stated in the past I am not a real huge fan of all ...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RC is now Available.  The updates on the ASP.NET Ajax framework seem to be happening faster than a complete page refresh these days!  I barely got to use the last release and yet another one is available.  I should have some time to work with this one over the weekend and will report back anything that strikes me.

That was fast, I think I remember just the other day announcing Beta 1 was available.  Well Now ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 is available for your developing pleasure.  Beta 2 includes several improvements over the first Beta release, including adding the UpdateProgress control to ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, and better support for script loading ...

I just saw the announcement about the release of the ASP.NET AJAX framework (Code name Atlas - they should just call it that, ugh) Beta.  AJAX is of course the hottest development thing going for web developers right now, and we have been anxiously awaiting any AJAX updates from Microsoft.  So This should be a great weekend for all of ...

Now this is what I am talking about, a great use of AJAX with a progress bar.  I found it on ScottGu's blog.  He even has some visuals on his site.  The controls are part of the Atlas Toolkit.  I seriously hope I have some weekend time to play with these controls.