Today I had another trivial problem that was unbelievably hard to debug just because I could not tell that an error caused by a web resource was caused by exactly that resource. I was dealing with a forgotten [WebResource] attribute that did not have a matching resource built in the assembly and both generated a server side exception and gave browsers a 404 HTTP error. I wanted to decrypt the query string data that was being passed to WebResource.axd and extract the resource and assembly name from it. MSDN told me that what I needed was the "d" query string parameter, as it contained the encrypted assembly and resource name. The...

The Ajax PapersPart II: Updating the PageDownload formatted PDF version for easy readingIn part one of this series on Ajax we looked at Ajax basics. What it is. How it works. Where it executes. We learned that Ajax communication (in its most basic form) only takes a few lines of JavaScript to work. If Ajax is so easy, what’s all the fuss about Ajax being so hard? Even though Ajax in its purest sense just defines a method for communicating asynchronously with the server, it is relatively useless unless you do something with the information returned from the server. That “something” usually means that you need to...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls: RadGrid Code library entries: Passing item-related data from the server to the client and vice versa: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-tebbc.aspx Show/Edit boolean values using "Y" and "N": http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-tkagh.aspx

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls:radGridCode library entries: Client-side Row Selection Persisted with Sorting and Paging:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-khchg.aspx Saving radGrid scroll position when leaving pagehttp://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-tdcmd.aspx Printing grid headers on every pagehttp://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-tcect.aspx

The Ajax Papers Part I: The Intro and the Basics Download formatted PDF version for easy readingAjax. We’ve all heard of it and most of us have already started to use it. Many of us (“us” being ASP.NET developers) probably decided to use Ajax because Telerik’s radAjax component made it very easy to add Ajax to our existing projects. We figured what the heck? Telerik makes it easy to add Ajax to my site and the boss will love to see the Ajax buzz word in my list of accomplishments. As radAjax developers, though, we often take for granted what’s actually happening under...