Archive for the 'AJAX' Category

I started experimenting this week with MVC 3 and the new unobtrustive javascript frameworks, both for AJAX and validation. These are built around jQuery, and frankly are very nice pieces of work. There are, however, a few improvements that can be made to the Javascript files included in the distribution. You can obviously include these [...]

Today I’ve released version 1.1.0 of jQuery.themescript.  This release includes some significant improvements that make it far more functional in the real world. The original design concept was for a web store framework I was working on.  I wanted each store be able to easily change their javascript based themes without making changes to the [...]

In the last few months, I’ve discovered jQuery and jQuery UI, which are a pair pretty awesome of open source javascript libraries.  I know, I’m a little behind the times here, but all I can say is “Wow”.  Frankly, using jQuery makes the AJAX library that comes with .NET 3.0/3.5 from Microsoft seem foolish and [...]

After further testing, I discovered a bug in my GroupedUpdatePanel. It didn’t always function correctly when the postback was initiated by a child control with ChildrenAsTriggers set to true. Any UpdatePanels declared after the initiated panel would update, but those before would not. I’ve corrected this, though it’s now a bit more complicated. There is [...]

Without a doubt, AJAX is one of the most useful web development tools out there. Through AJAX, we finally have a method for developing web pages with robust user interfaces. The most common and simplest method of AJAX development on ASP.NET is to use the UpdatePanel. While the UpdatePanel creates a lot of overhead, it [...]