Following a recommendation from a client we obtained a pass for Devweek 2009 , held at the Barbican in London last week. The first session I attended was a pre-conference workshop on ASP.Net Ajax presented by Fritz Onion . I was impressed with his delivery of the subject – he had that useful but all too rare skill in presenters of being able to code and talk at the same time! We covered quite a bit of ground: reviewing the status of AJAX in the existing ASP.Net platform, the background to the technology and also getting a preview of the next release of ASP.Net Ajax 4.0. ASP.Net Ajax Today Server Side Controls The latest release of the technology comes with ASP.Net 3.5 service pack 1, which builds on technologies released at various stages since November 2005. By including a script manager tag, server side DLLs download JavaScript to the client: <asp:ScriptManager id=”ScriptManager1” runat=”server” /> The key server side control is the UpdatePanel which enables partial page re...
Head of CMS at Umbraco. Previously with digital agency Zone, building solutions on .NET and using Umbraco, EPiServer and Sitecore CMS. This blog is used as a repository for various tips, tricks, issues and impressions drawn from the use of technology in my work and interests. All words are my own.