Results of AJAX Statistic for .NET Development
Simone [1] has created another survey [2] concerning AJAX usage with ASP.NET. The results are available, now, and it is really interesting to see that there are only small changes in the use of AJAX libraries for ASP.NET developers.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
How to... use Class Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX like AjaxPro
Using Ajax.NET Professional [1] (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods inside a specified type that are marked with the [AjaxMethod] attribute. The only thing you have to add to the Page class (in the Page_Load event) is the call to AjaxPro.Utility.RegisterTypeForAjax(typeof(ClassName)).
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 9, 2008
How to... move from AjaxPro to ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods
In one of my last posts I blogged about the future [1] of Ajax.NET Professional [2] (AjaxPro) and that I'm not able to do further development on that project. A lot of my readers feeling sad about this but I had to concentrate more on new technologies that will revolutionize web application development.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Future of Ajax.NET Professional
I'm happy to see that Ajax.NET Professional is used about 13.3% when using .NET related web applications [1]. Starting with my first post Using a HttpHandler and Attributes to call C# methods in JavaScript [2] in February 2005 the AJAX hype started around the world. Two months later I renamed the project to Ajax.NET [3] and added nearly all features that are the most used until today. In May 2005 Windows Mobile support [4] has been added and Ajax.NET was the only .NET framework that was able to run AJAX requests on mobile devices. In the end of 2005 I was invited to the PDC 05 in Los Angeles where I could meet Brian Goldfarb [5] and Jonathan Hawkins [6] to see how Microsoft is working on AJAX in ASP.NET (Atlas) [7]. I meet some other .NET developers and had great ideas on how AJAX will change web applications. In October I published a new product called Ajax.NET Professional [8] which was doing the same but contains several other security features. Because of a change in the JavaScript source I changed the name from Ajax.NET.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, January 4, 2008
.NET AJAX Survey Results
Simone [1] has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers [2]. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX [3] with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit [4] which is used by almost half of the .NET developers that are using AJAX.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, December 21, 2007
Ajax usage among .NET developers
Simone Chiaretta [1] had a look at the results of Ajaxian's survey [2] about the state of the usage in the Web development community. He decided to make a new survey [3], but this time only focused on .NET developers.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, December 19, 2007
MSDN Webcast: Silverlight 1.0 Overview
Rob Bagby [1], MSDN Developer Evangelist, will present Silverlight [2] 1.0 on Wednesday, 15th August at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada).
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, August 14, 2007
ASP.NET AJAX Roles and Security
David Barkol [1] writes on his blog about ASP.NET AJAX Role Application Service with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). [2] Well, it is a new service that is working similar to the profile [3] and authentication [4] service. As it is very easy to call it from the client-side JavaScript code you should be a little bit more careful using these new methods.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 30, 2007
[de] Silverlight Get Together
(English: I will start new workshops about Ajax, ASP.NET and Silverlight in the next months, first will start on Thursday about Silverlight.)
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 23, 2007
AjaxPro User Experience
DotNetSlackers [1] creator Sonu Kapoor writes [2] about Ajax.NET Professional [3]:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Are we ready for AJAX?
I had a watch today on the webcast How Hackers Reverse Engineer and Exploit an Ajax Application [1]. There wasn't any new security issue as we already should know as AJAX or web application developers. Samples did show how to hack the AutoComplete.asmx web service (using ASP.NET AJAX [2]) which was used on a demo web application using SQL Injection.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, January 25, 2007
Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award 2007
All the things around Christmas and New Year's Eve are left, now, and starting this morning reading my mails I got a very surprising mail from Microsoft:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 1, 2007
Rules you need for Fiddler
From time to time I install Fiddler [1] on new PCs and everytime I have the same problem: which rules do I need to get most from Fiddler. Here are my top 5 rules [2] I use:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Syntax error: line 1 using Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX [part 2]
Last Friday I wrote about the problem [1] of atlasglob.axd on MSDN. Today I did several tests and found out that the Accept-Language is one of the problems there, and that is the reason why not everyone got this JavaScript error.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The idea of UpdatePanels combined with JavaScript
I come across more and more web sites where JavaScript is used to get great user experience on the client-side. There are a couple of JavaScript frameworks written only to add animation effects to static html web pages. My favorite is the Yahoo! UI Library [1] and the great library yui-ext [2] (written by Jack Slocum [3]) that will extend the Yahoo! UI with common form elements like a dialog [4], a grid or layout panels.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Showcase of Sites Powered by ASP.NET AJAX
I had some time to have a look at the showcases of sites powered [1] by ASP.NET AJAX [2]. There are a couple of new web sites available that I didn't looked at. I started my Internet Explorer, Fiddler [3] and Ethereal [4] and captured everything I got. Here are my results:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Syntax error: line 1 using Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
I read the last post [1] from Rick Strahl [2] about IE 7 Script Errors. Yes, I found this already on some sites, too, so I started to find the real issue.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, November 24, 2006
.NET Developers Group München - Web 2.0 für Webentwickler
Ich bin morgen Abend (20. November 2006) bei der .NET Developers Group München [1] und spreche über Web 2.0. In meinem Vortrag möchte ich verschiedene Frameworks (Yahoo! UI, Dojo, AjaxPro [2], Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX) kurz vorstellen, und auch Funktionen zeigen, die viele bis jetzt wohl noch nicht kennen (wie z.B. das lokale Cachen von Daten oder eine Offline AJAX Anwendung). Außerdem habt ihr die Chance Bücher zum Thema AJAX zu gewinnen, es lohnt sich also auf jeden Fall vorbeizuschauen.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, November 20, 2006
What's next with AjaxPro?
That's a good questions: what's next with AjaxPro [1]? I'm still working on the Java port of AjaxPro, working already very good. During the port I found several new ideas on how to improve AjaxPro.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
AjaxPro on Mono
Today I meet Miguel de Icaza [1] (blog [2]) at the Prio conference [3] in Baden-Baden. Miguel is the founder of the Mono project [4] which implements a common language runtime on linux that will be 100% compatible to the Microsoft .NET Framework (means: you can develop using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and run it on cheap linux servers). We had a great discussion about Microsoft .NET (all the available versions), WCF/WPF and, of course, ASP.NET AJAX [5] (Atlas) and Ajax.NET Professional [6] (AjaxPro).
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
More MS Ajax Pain
Rick Strahl is writing about his experience about the new Atlas files:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Albert Weinert will talk about Ajax.NET Professional in Cologne, Germany
Alber Weinert [1] is talking [2] about Ajax.NET Professional [3] (and details on JSON [4]) in Cologne, Germany:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Serializing Objects as JSON using Atlas, JSON.NET and AjaxPro [Part 2]
As there was a little discussion [1] about serialization of .NET types and deserialization of these genereted JSON strings I have updated Ajax.NET Professional [2] (version 6.7.9.1) to allow parsing of new Date statements, too. You can use the JSON generated string to do a deserialization right after, now.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 10, 2006
AJAX Web Applications and Time Zones
Because I'm currently playing with a lot of AJAX frameworks I'm searching for the correct use of dates and times in web applications. Ajax.NET Professional [1] is using time zone indentifier to know from which time zone the request is comming from. See following server-side C# code:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, July 7, 2006
Why Ajax.NET Professional is using the __type property?
Ajax.NET Professional [1] is using attributes, there is no need to inherit from special pages or include dummy web controls to do all the job, there is no need to write special source code. Any .NET assembly can include classes with AjaxMethods that can be used in your ASP.NET web application.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, July 7, 2006
Serializing Objects as JSON using Atlas, JSON.NET and AjaxPro [Part 1]
I read the post from Scott Hanselman [1] today comparing the internal use of JSON de-/serializer from the Atlas framework [2] and Ajax.NET Professional [3].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, July 5, 2006
[DE] Dodned .NET Franken Usergroup Treffen
Dieter Föttinger schreibt auf seinem Blog [1] folgendes zu dem Usergroup Treffen [2] (INETA Usergroup Franken) gestern Abend:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, June 29, 2006
[INETA] Treffen der Stars in Franken - Dodned Live
Dodned Live: Treffen der Stars in der fränkischen Metropole ... Michael Schwarz mit Ajax.NET Professional [2], Daniel Zeiss mit ComfortASP.NET [3] und Oliver Scheer, Microsoft, mit Atlas Framework [4]. Voraussichtlich am 26.06.2006 (yup, WM-Spielfrei...). Buchverlosung wie üblich. Stay tuned for more ...
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Why UpdateControls are dangerous (or: why Fiddler is a great tool)!
The next days I will have a deeper look into web sites that are using AJAX frameworks that will replace the typical postback used in ASP.NET.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Sunday, May 14, 2006
Web Page Analyzer and overall traffic
I the last weeks I used Fiddler [1] to see what is sent over the lines on initial start of a web site and during the web application is running. You can simply mark more than on request line. On the right side you will then see in the Performance Statistics how many bytes are received from the client.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Comparison of AJAX frameworks for ASP.NET
Daniel sent me his comparison of indirect AJAX programming frameworks for ASP.NET. As Ajax.NET [1] is a framework where you have to do JavaScript programming other frameworks allow you to use AJAX stuff simply by adding some configuration to you web.config or by inheriting from a special page class.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, February 3, 2006