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March 2, 2011 in Ajax, Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference
I’ve started blogging examples of how to replace Microsoft AJAX and the Ajax Control Toolkit usages with jQuery based equivalents. In this post I showed how to replace the ACT’s Rounded Corner Extender with jQuery and in this one I demonstrated how to replace the Drop Shadow control extender with jQuery. But lots of folks want [...] Read More……(read more)
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February 26, 2011 in Ajax, Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference
As I started in this blog post, I’m creating jQuery based samples for all of my origional Ajax and Ajax Control Toolkit guidance. (Find it here.) In this video I demonstrated adding “DropShadow” visual effects to ASP.NET controls using the DropShadow Control Extender from the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit. As you might expect, and as [...] Read More……(read more)
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February 23, 2011 in Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference, Talks
Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours. The course is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin and contains 5 hours of great end to end content. Pluralsight will be offering this jQuery Fundamentals course for free until Thursday evening (9pm PST). Pluralsight has about 100 other great training courses available similar to this one. They recently launched a new subscription plan that allows you to watch all of their courses online starting from $29 a month. They also offer a 10 day free trial option that you can use to try it out. You can learn more about it here . Free jQuery 1.5 Visual Cheat Sheet While on the…(read more)
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February 3, 2011 in .NET, Articles, ASP.NET, Community News, MVC, News, Reference
Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Community News MVCConf Conference Next Tuesday : Attend the free, online ASP.NET MVC Conference being organized by the community next Tuesday. Here is a list of some of the talks you can watch live. Visual Studio HTML5 and CSS3 in VS 2010 SP1 : Good post from the Visual Studio web tools team that talks about the new support coming in VS 2010 SP1 for HTML5 and CSS3. Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool : Rachel Appel has a nice post that covers how to enable…(read more)
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January 13, 2011 in .NET, Articles, ASP.NET, Community News, MVC, News, Reference, Visual Studio
I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 Orchard 1.0 WebMatrix 1.0 The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET 4 and VS 2010 release, and add a ton of additional value to ASP.NET (both Web Forms and MVC) and the Microsoft Web Server stack. ASP.NET MVC 3 Today we are shipping the final release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download and install ASP.NET MVC 3 here . The ASP.NET MVC 3 source code (released under an OSI-compliant open source license) can also optionally be downloaded here . ASP.NET MVC 3 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great features. Some of the improvements…(read more)
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January 12, 2011 in Ajax, Articles, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, News, Reference
My favorite feature of HTML5, hands-down, is HTML5 local storage (aka DOM storage). By taking advantage of HTML5 local storage, you can dramatically improve the performance of your data-driven ASP.NET applications by caching data in the browser persistently. Think of HTML5 local storage like browser cookies, but much better. Like cookies, local storage is persistent. When you add something to browser local storage, it remains there when the user returns to the website (possibly days or months later). Importantly, unlike the cookie storage limitation of 4KB, you can store up to 10 megabytes in HTML5 local storage. Because HTML5 local storage works with the latest versions of all modern browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), you can start taking…(read more)
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January 11, 2011 in Ajax, Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference
I’m teaching several JavaScript and ASP.NET workshops over the next couple of months (thanks everyone!) and I thought it would be useful for my students to have a really easy to use JavaScript reference. I wanted a simple interactive JavaScript reference and I could not find one so I decided to put together one of my own. I decided to use the latest features of JavaScript, HTML5 and jQuery such as local storage, offline manifests, and jQuery templates. What could be more appropriate than building a JavaScript Reference with JavaScript? You can try out the application by visiting: http://Superexpert.com/JavaScriptReference Because the app takes advantage of several advanced features of HTML5, it won’t work with Internet Explorer 6 (but really…(read more)
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December 6, 2010 in .NET, Ajax, Articles, ASP.NET, MVC, News, Reference, Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series for another on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] ASP.NET ASP.NET Code Samples Collection : J.D. Meier has a great post that provides a detailed round-up of ASP.NET code samples and tutorials from a wide variety of sources. Lots of useful pointers. Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work : Nice article that details a bunch of optimizations you can make to speed up ASP.NET project load and compile times. You might also want to read my previous blog post on this topic here . 10 Essential Tools for Building…(read more)
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October 5, 2010 in Ajax, Articles, News, Reference
The beta version of the jQuery Templates plugin is now hosted on the Microsoft Ajax CDN. You can start using the jQuery Templates plugin in your application by referencing both jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery Templates from the CDN. Here are the two script tags that you will want to use when developing an application: <script type="text/javascript" src=” http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.js ”></script> <script type="text/javascript" src=” http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.js ”></script> In addition, minified versions of both files are available from the CDN: <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1…(read more)
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October 4, 2010 in Ajax, Articles, News, Reference
When I joined the ASP.NET team as the Program Manager for Ajax, the ASP.NET team was working on releasing a new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library. This new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library had several really innovative and unique features such as support for client templates, client data-binding, script dependency management, and globalization. However, we kept hearing the message that our customers wanted to use jQuery when building ASP.NET applications. Therefore, about ten months ago, we decided to pursue a risky strategy . Scott Guthrie sent me to Cambridge to meet with John Resig – the creator of jQuery and leader of the jQuery project – to find out whether Microsoft and jQuery could work together. We wanted to find out whether…(read more)