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    Ajax Manager WebCast Full

    For those of you who are not subscribed to my Telerik Watch blog, I want to bring your attention to some important news. The Ajax Manager WebCast that I'll be doing with Microsoft this week is already full! Clearly everyone is eager to see the latest from Telerik and how we're embracing ASP.NET AJAX and I want to thank everyone for making this WebCast an early success. The good news for those of you who did not register in time is that the entire event will be available on demand sometime next week. For full details on accessing the on...
    March 27, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Debugging ASP.NET 2.0 Web Resources: Decrypting the URL and Getting the Resource Name

    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...
    March 27, 2007
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    The Ajax Papers: Part II

    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...
    March 26, 2007
  • Web

    The Ajax Papers: Part I

    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...
    March 08, 2007
  • Web

    The Ajax Papers: Part I

    The Ajax Papers Part I: The Intro and the Basics. Download formatted PDF version for easy reading. Ajax. 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...
    March 08, 2007