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There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx That said, I haven't found it all plain ...

Richard Griffin, Steven Evans and I spent a week working on a Silverlight demo that Paul Dawson used as part of his ReMix presentation "WPF & Silverlight: A Loaded gun?" although I can't publish the demo yet, I thought it might be useful to go over some of the things we learnt putting it together. All three of us have WPF ...

I came across an interesting issue today when I was creating a new ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2005 (with the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista applied) on Windows Vista. After hitting F5 to start the launch the web app in debug mode I received the following error:    Unable to start ...

Last Tuesday I conducted a presentation at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference entitled "Architecting web sites using Microsoft ASP.net AJAX". You can download the presentation below. The aim of the presentation was to get attendees thinking about how they choose to architect aspects of their website with ASP.net AJAX. The ...

So, my blog has been pretty quiet of late. This is mainly due to work (and DIY!) commitments, but it is also due to the fact that I have busy preparing for my ASP.net AJAX tutorial for this years conference, which begins tomorrow (5th March). My session, entitled "Architecting web applications using Microsoft ASP.net AJAX" will cover ...

IntroductionLast June, my collegue Howard van Rooijen blogged on the need for continuous education in the .Net development world.This blog points out one very true fact in the Microsoft development space right now; technologies are diverging and becoming more and more specialized to meet specific needs. As Howard points out, this means as ...

Andy isn't the only person inside Conchango working with Atlas at the moment, both Simon and I are evaluating into the framework for our current projects – since Mix06 there has been a lot of buzz about Web 2.0 – and we are trying to see how we can deliver richer user experiences using the Atlas framework. I've spent the last two weeks delving ...

Introduction The web part framework provided as part of ASP.net 2.0 provides a rich framework for creating portal based web sites.   The concept of a portal is to separate the layout of content from what is hard coded onto the page design. This enables the concept of personalization – which is the ability to personalize content for each ...

Using themes in ASP.net allows you to ''skin'' the look and feel of a web site, much like CSS, but with more control, because now you can affect the rendering of the HTML in server controls. The recommended use of a theme is to put as much as possible in the CSS, which can be used in conjuction with the theme folder. In fact, the theme has a ...

Introduction If there’s one thing I like in life it’s a subject that brings out passionate love or hatred. Some examples include Marmite, The Smiths, and the work of Woody Allen. All of these examples I happen to love, but the best part about them all is that you never hear anyone say, “Yeah, The Smiths were ok”. Who wants ...