BIRD S EYE VIEW OF THE ASP NET AJAX ARCHITECTURE

Controls Now Exposed as jQuery Plug-ins
In this release, all the ASP.NET AJAX controls are exposed as jQuery plug-ins. So you can instantiate them using jQuery syntax, even making use of jQuery’s chaining capabilities. The following code attaches[r]

Server-Side Ajax Versus Client-Side Ajax
Microsoft has a complicated relationship with Ajax. On the one hand, the company wants to provide its existing ASP.NET developers with an easy way to implement Ajax function- ality without having to le[r]

Firebug provides a light-weight way to quickly debug a page directly in Firefox as well as an excellent tool for inspecting different elements within the page.
Debugging Support in ASP.NET AJAX
The ASP.NET AJAX library includes many diffe[r]

Introducing ASP.NET • Chapter 1 7
and programmers really felt that things had settled into a stable technology.This newfound confidence was in part due to the evidence of successful transactional sites actually showing that the platform could deliver, but also the<[r]

5 The XMLHttpRequest object exposes the following methods and properties:
❑ open : This method takes up to five parameters, but only the first two parameters are required. The first required parameter is a string that contains the HTTP verb ( PO[r]

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Now, “going topless” may make it sound as though I’m talking about lopping off the points of pyramids or “flattening” organizations, an inef- fectual approach often adopted for “smashing silos” and encouraging col- laboration. This is not what I mean at all, because, as I’ve noted, str[r]

Now, “going topless” may make it sound as though I’m talking about lopping off the points of pyramids or “flattening” organizations, an inef- fectual approach often adopted for “smashing silos” and encouraging col- laboration. This is not what I mean at all, because, as I’ve noted, str[r]

Now, “going topless” may make it sound as though I’m talking about lopping off the points of pyramids or “flattening” organizations, an inef- fectual approach often adopted for “smashing silos” and encouraging col- laboration. This is not what I mean at all, because, as I’ve noted, str[r]

When an ASP.NET page or User Control page is open in Design view, HTML view, or All view within the edit window, the Toolbox lists the various elements and controls that can be a[r]

Using ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls in Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET offer some great design tools that allow you to visually construct pages, which fits in neatly with the concepts that ASP.NET AJAX introduces. Dev[r]

During the beta program many people asked about VBScript, and some deliberately inflammatory headlines appeared on various web sites claiming that Microsoft had dumped VBScript. While it's technically true, it's misleading and really misses the point. The .NE[r]

to resize the element. This is done through the HandleCssClass property. The value of this property
points to the CSS class handle contained within the same file. The second CSS reference deals with the
control as it is clicked and held ([r]

Executing Your Ajax on the Client
Building on the concept you learned from Chapter 2, you’ll start this example with very similar HTML, as you see in the code that follows. The HTML preloads both the left and the right image. This is simply to make[r]

The appendices of the book will begin by providing an in-depth coverage of ASP.NET AJAX XML-script and showing you how it enables you to implement most features of your ASP.NET AJAX application in a purely declarative fa[r]

❑ The extensibility points of this method
❑ The role that the last argument of the getPropertyType method plays, and why and when you should specify this argument
The getPropertyType static method of the TypeDescriptor[r]

USING THE TIMER CONTROL The ASP.NET AJAX Timer control enables you to refresh an UpdatePanel or the entire page on a timed basis.. The Timer control has one important property:.[r]

However, traditional approaches have a number of shortcomings. Distributed object models are not scalable for the Internet.
Service and user are too tightly coupled.
For distributed programming on the Internet their relation should be looser, based just on passing informatio[r]

The formatted date as the result of the preceding script is shown in Figure 4-2.
Figure 4-2. Displaying the current date in long format
Error Extensions
JavaScript has an Error object and is often used in conjunction with try / catch blocks. However, this i[r]

Macroeconomics provides us with a bird’s eye view of country’s economic landscape. Instead of looking at behavior of individual businesses and consumers – called microeconomics – the goal of macroeconomics is to look at overall economic trends such as employment levels, economic growth, balance of p[r]