ASP.NET Resources

August 2007

MS AJAX Library and JQuery: What Does 'this' Point To?

Seeing so many JQuery fans out there, I’d like to share a little trick I use when I run JQuery alongside the MS AJAX Library.

8/31/2007 |

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Will Erlang Become the Next Java (or .NET)?

Ralph Johnson intrigued the hell out of me with his recent post about Erlang. A language geared specifically toward multi-processor/core environments; systems with reliability of nine 9’s; a number of little processes talking to each other via messages as opposed to dipping their hands into shared memory, etc—sounds too good to be true. Yet this is what Erlang promises.

8/20/2007 |

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To Ruby Or Not To Ruby?

Joe Wikert has kindly sent me a free copy of Beginning Ruby on Rails. Joe challenged me to give the born-again Wrox a try since I’ve been a relentless old-Wrox basher.

8/14/2007 |

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Book Review: Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials is a brand new book about… well, the title is self-explanatory. See my review at Positive Lookahead. Don’t pay attention to the cover that says “Microsoft AJAX C# Essentials.” Must be an old proof.

8/14/2007 |

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"ASP.NET AJAX Client Life-Cycle Events" Cheat Sheet 2007-08-08 Update

When I posted this cheat sheet back in June, Morten pointed out there was an arrow missing from Application.init to Application.load. Even though I wanted to illustrate three different stages, Morten raised a good point.

8/8/2007 |

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Book Review: Programming Windows Workflow Foundation

My review of this book at Positive Lookahead.

8/8/2007 |

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Always Set The Source of IFrame Content (iframe.src)

When I wrote the always-centered AJAX progress indicator (available here), I made a n00bie mistake of not setting the iframe.src attribute. It bit us in the butt when a page served over SSL began to popup that ubiquitous dialog “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?” To make matters worse, IE 7 didn’t complain. IE 6 did.

8/3/2007 |

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