ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Here is the latest in my semi-regular link-listing series. Today's links are all about ASP.NET AJAX.

ASP.NET AJAX Articles

• ASP.NET AJAX: Canceling an Async Postback: Matt Berseth demonstrates how to use JavaScript on the client to see if a page is in the middle of an Async Postback (using the UpdatePanel), and how you can programmatically cancel it.

• Disable UpdatePanel Contents During Async Postback: Matt Berseth has a nice post on how to use JavaScript on the client to disable controls on a page while doing an Async Postback (using the UpdatePanel).

• Plotting Zip-code Boundaries using ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft Virtual Earth: Matt Berseth walks through a very cool sample that demonstrates how to superimpose zip code boundaries over a virtual earth map. Also check out Part 2 of his post.

• ASP.NET AJAX: Invoke a Static Method from JavaScript: Matt Berseth demonstrates how to call back to a server from JavaScript on the client and invoke a static method on your page.

• Create an AJAX File Upload: Kazi Manzur Rashid posts about a good technique you can use to handle AJAX-like file uploads using ASP.NET.

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Articles

• How To: Confirm GridView Deletes with the ModalPopupExtender: Matt Berseth shows how to add AJAX confirmation dialogs to GridView controls to cleanly prompt the user when they try and delete items.

• How To: Use ModalPopupExtender for Editing Rows in a GridView (Master/Detail Scenario): Matt Berseth shows how to implement the classic Master/Details scenario using ASP.NET AJAX and the ModalPopupExtender control in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

• How To: Provide a better asp:Wizard user experience: Matt Berseth demonstrates how to use the animation capabilities within the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to provide smoother wizard navigation using the control.

• How To: Rendering a Gmail-like "Loading" Indicator over a Specific ASP.NET Control: Matt Berseth has a slick approach that enables you to use the UpdatePanelAnimationExtender control to get GMail like progress indicator UI in your ASP.NET AJAX applications.

• How To: Stop the ModalPopup Flicker: Matt Berseth has a good post on using the ModalPopupExtender control and how to avoid it having any flicker effect when first loading.

• How To: Lazy-load TabPanels within the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's TabContainer Control: Matt Berseth has a great post that demonstrates how to efficiently delay load non-visible tabs of data using the TabContainer control in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

• How To: Create an ASP.NET AJAX Style Folder Explorer: Matt Berseth has a nice post on how to build a tree-view explorer view of a file-system using ASP.NET AJAX.

• How to: Create an Image Thumbnail Viewer using the ModalPopupExtender Control: Matt Berseth shows how to build a nice image thumbnail viewer using the ModalPopupExtender.

ASP.NET AJAX in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Articles

• Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript Intellisense: A blog post by me that talks about the new Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript Intellisense features - which work great with ASP.NET AJAX.

• Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript Debugging: A blog post by me that talks about the new Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript Debugging features - which also work great with ASP.NET AJAX.

• ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5: A blog post by me that talks about the version of ASP.NET AJAX that is included in .NET 3.5.

• Workaround for VS 2008 Beta2 Lack of JavaScript Intellisense and Colorization Bug: A blog post by the Visual Studio Web Tools team that talks about how to fix a setup bug that a few people have run into with Beta2, where JavaScript intellisense and colorization doesn't work. This blog post describes how to fix it.