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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:38 PM

ASP.NET AJAX Download Performance Improvement Request

I'm a big fan of ASP.NET AJAX in general, but one concern I have and something that has forced me to use other technologies is the size of the library. It's about 85kb when compressed and unfortunately that is quite large if you're trying to include it
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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:15 AM

LINQ and the new DevExpress Grid

Mehul has a couple of screencasts up on his blog that demonstrate how to use their new LINQ datasource to do optimized paging/updating of their ASPxGridView control . At just over 2 minutes, the screencast does a very good job of showing how easy it is
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:07 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update Released

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit . This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:26 AM

Trends in Programming Languages

Al Pascual wrote about some trends he noticed using Google Trend , with regard to different programming languages. It's an interesting tool, since it can be used to gauge general interest in particular keywords and search terms, as well as news, going
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:02 PM

DevConnections Afterthoughts and Presentations

I got back from DevConnections yesterday at 7am (took the redeye flight), after being gone since Saturday. I'm glad to be home, and I know it will be a few days before I'm even close to caught up on everything that fell behind while I was in Vegas. The
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Friday, October 19, 2007 1:27 PM

Render User Control as String Template

Scott Guthrie has a great example of how to use an ASP.NET user control as a template which one can dynamically bind to data and then pull the results out as a string . One place this is useful is in AJAX scenarios in which you want to replace the contents
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Friday, September 21, 2007 3:45 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update September 2007

The AJAX Control Toolkit just released a new version for September 2007. You can get version 10920 now from CodePlex. This release is meant to improve the stability and quality of the controls and includes a bunch of fixes both at the general and control-specific
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Friday, July 13, 2007 3:33 PM

Microsoft Health Common User Interface

I recently heard about a set of controls that is being made freely available via CodePlex with the goal of improving the usability and consistency of medical software applications. The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) includes a suite of rich
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:55 PM

Wait for ASP.NET AJAX Book Finally Over

The wait for Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX is finally over. The folks who camped outside of bookstores all night to be the first ones to own these beauties were rewarded today. Shortages were reported in some parts of the country as mobs of excited .NET
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:15 PM

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released Today

Today, Microsoft released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . You can download it, as well as the latest AJAX Control Toolkit and Futures January CTP, from http://ajax.asp.net/ . Kudos to the ASP.NET team for making this happen! I know a lot of web applications have been
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:16 PM

DevConnections Keynotes

Scott Guthrie's keynote this morning covered a few ASP.NET AJAX features. It was impressive to see how quickly he was able to move around during his demo and literally create the sample applications from scratch. He also showed some screenshots of the
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