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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – Client Templates

By Damien White | Published: April 28, 2009

A little over a month ago, Microsoft released the fourth preview of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX.  This is the new release of the Microsoft AJAX Framework that will be released with ASP.NET 4.0.  We’re getting closer to the RTM release of .NET 4.0 (hopefully later this year), so I figured this would be a good time [...]

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My Wrox Blox Books – Now on Amazon!

By Damien White | Published: January 30, 2009

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com.  Pretty cool stuff!  They were listed up there before, but weren’t available directly through Amazon until now.  For a full description and the table of contents of each, just click on the Amazon links [...]

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ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

By Damien White | Published: September 7, 2008

Technorati Tags: Page Methods,UpdatePanel,AJAX,ASP.NET If you’ve read things of mine, such as my Wrox Blox Hands On ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, or posts on the ASP.NET Forums, you may have noticed I talk about using ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods lots of the time.  Lots of developers using ASP.NET AJAX overuse the UpdatePanel, or use it [...]

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AJAX Control Toolkit – DropDownExtender Always Visible

By Damien White | Published: June 12, 2008

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,AJAX Control Toolkit,DropDownExtender Today I came across a problem of making the DropDownExtender appear as if it is a standard drop down like it is when you hover over it (as shown in the image to the right).  Initially I was thinking you could do something with the Animation framework, but after a [...]

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AJAX Control Toolkit – Layout Problems

By Damien White | Published: June 11, 2008

Technorati Tags: AJAX,AJAX Control Toolkit,CSS,ASP.NET A real common problem with using the AJAX Control Toolkit revolves around the rendering of the controls.  Taking an example from the ASP.NET Forums, let’s say you have a Tab Control on your page.  Everything looks ok, and then you run it.  You notice that there is a weird space [...]

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