Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Did you know? ASP.NET AJAX was released
I feel like I was just spammed on my RSS reader about the release today of ASP.NET AJAX. The screenshot on the left is a picture from Google Reader of some of the feed titles. Since I subscribe to a pretty large number of .NET developers and apparently ASP.NET developers, today was pretty eventful for them I guess. I looked over the release though and it doesn't really seem like anything new has been added to the release between the last version and the new release version that makes me think there is anything that special going on.
I've actually been very happy so far with the ASP.NET AJAX libraries that were in beta so for the last few months as I've had almost no issues with them at all. If you haven't had a chance to try the ASP.NET AJAX libraries, I highly recommend you try it out. It's incredibly simple compared to some others that are on there and if you're actually creating your own JavaScript, the new libraries and tools are incredibly simple to use in comparison. Now, it's not incredibly simple to setup and integrate but it's leaps and bounds beyond manually doing it with JavaScript.
Here is a neat little suggestion for you when you're starting to work with it. Just put your ScriptManager control that every AJAX using page needs in the Master Page for your site. That way you don't have to declare it on every page. Although this may incure a slight overhead to the page, it's probably minimal.
And if you want an awesome sample, David Barkol posted a great little sample site that he made using the new ASP.NET AJAX extensions. It's a very good sample site for the types of things you can do quickly with ASP.NET AJAX and he gives out the code for it as well. ¶ 9:28 PM
I feel like I was just spammed on my RSS reader about the release today of ASP.NET AJAX. The screenshot on the left is a picture from Google Reader of some of the feed titles. Since I subscribe to a pretty large number of .NET developers and apparently ASP.NET developers, today was pretty eventful for them I guess. I looked over the release though and it doesn't really seem like anything new has been added to the release between the last version and the new release version that makes me think there is anything that special going on.
I've actually been very happy so far with the ASP.NET AJAX libraries that were in beta so for the last few months as I've had almost no issues with them at all. If you haven't had a chance to try the ASP.NET AJAX libraries, I highly recommend you try it out. It's incredibly simple compared to some others that are on there and if you're actually creating your own JavaScript, the new libraries and tools are incredibly simple to use in comparison. Now, it's not incredibly simple to setup and integrate but it's leaps and bounds beyond manually doing it with JavaScript.
Here is a neat little suggestion for you when you're starting to work with it. Just put your ScriptManager control that every AJAX using page needs in the Master Page for your site. That way you don't have to declare it on every page. Although this may incure a slight overhead to the page, it's probably minimal.
And if you want an awesome sample, David Barkol posted a great little sample site that he made using the new ASP.NET AJAX extensions. It's a very good sample site for the types of things you can do quickly with ASP.NET AJAX and he gives out the code for it as well. ¶ 9:28 PM
