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Monthly Archives: May 2009

ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – Data Binding

Throughout the course of my introductory posts on ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, we looked at the new DataView control as well as the Sys.Observer class, which brings the Observer pattern to plain JavaScript objects.  The new ASP.NET AJAX release is very exciting offering powerful new features to take AJAX enabled applications to a new level.  In [...]

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – JavaScript Observer Pattern

In my last post on ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, we took a look at the new DataView ASP.NET AJAX control.  We saw that by using a DataView, we could easily bind data with JavaScript or declaratively with a few attributes.  In this post, we’ll look at another feature of the ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Library, the Observer [...]

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How To: Adding MVC items to an ASP.NET Web Application

I’ve been experimenting with using ASP.NET MVC inside a standard ASP.NET Web Application (Web Forms).  I really like what’s been released with MVC 1.0 and can see places where existing apps would benefit from the features.  Plus, having just finished Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 from Wrox (see my book review), I couldn’t wait to start [...]

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Book Review – Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Working primarily on web applications, I’ve focused most of my time on ASP.NET Web Forms since the very early betas.  Web Forms were truly a great revolution in the web world.  Once I saw the functionality when it first came out (when I was using ::shudder::  “classic” ASP), I couldn’t wait to start using it.  [...]

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