ASP.NET AJAX In Action
If you’re about to start playing with AJAX in ASP.NET it’s a good idea to read this book: ASP.NET AJAX In Action by Alessandro Gallo, David Barkol, Rama Krishna Vavilala (see on amazon).
It very well describes basics of AJAX and shows basic and more advanced techniques of applying it in ASP.NET. There are exaplanations of Microsoft Ajax Library, UpdatePanel, …
adminASP.NET powered with AJAX
For those who develop web applications in ASP.NET and want to learn how to include AJAX I recommend a series of video tutorial on ASP.NET AJAX.
The series is created (from time to time new videos are added) by Joe Stagner and others from the Microsoft product team. It teaches the basic tricks and explanations of how things should be …
Problems with UpdatePanel on SharePoint
If you want to add some AJAX flavour to your ASPX pages running on SharePoint you need to perform a few actions:
- install ASP.NET AJAX on servers in your farm
- extend SharePoint web.config file with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
- add ScriptManager either in the master page you’re using (prefferable) or in all pages that employ AJAX
The above listed steps are …
AJAX activity indicator
Users are familiar with indications of work performed in background since first versions of MS Windows. Besides being fancy, they are also informative.
AJAX, a Web 2.0 technique, aim at exchanging only small amounts of data with a server; this should be performed behind the scenes. If so, why not expose the moments when user interaction brings about reqest and …
AJAX Control Toolkit – Could not load file or assembly vjslib
I wanted to play around with ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. There are a few steps to do before you can start using this tool. Among others, you need to build the Visual Studio Solution provided in the downloaded zip file.
When I tried to build the solution I got this error:
…Error 1 Could not load file or assembly ‘vjslib,
Using PUT and DELETE methods in AJAX requests with prototype.js
Whenerver I write JavaScript I use prototype.js. I find it brilliant, especially when you deal with AJAX. With this library it’s easy to create an AJAX request and process its response from the server.
To send an AJAX request you create a following HTML code:
a link
...
$('ahref').onclick = function() {
new Ajax.Request('/some_url', {
method:'get',
parameters:'param1=value',
onSuccess: function(transport){
var … How to wait until AJAX call completes in Selenium tests
If you introduce AJAX to the application that is web tested with Selenium your tests might fail from time to time. In my case the tests were failing randomly, not that often but it made their quality decreased. So, how can you fix this?
Solution
Ideally, what you need is to stop the test execution (e.g. do not perform checks …