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ASMX and JSON - Common mistakes and misconceptions

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:02 GMT

The first in a series of posts dealing with common misconceptions and mistakes when it comes to using ASMX services as a backend for AJAX.

Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:05 GMT

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I'll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX's "d" again

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Since a lot of people are having trouble with it, I want to share one method you can use to completely isolate your code from the ".d" problem. In this post, I will show you how to detect the ".d" and how you can completely isolate your $.ajax success handler from it.

What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About jQuery

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:03:54 GMT

It's hard to believe that JavaScript is already well over a decade old. Often relegated to marginal tasks in its early years, JavaScript has grown to become a pillar of modern web development. With the current popularity of DHTML and AJAX, it can be difficult to find a site that doesn't use JavaScript anymore. One of the driving forces behind JavaScript's newfound popularity is a proliferation of JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery. Why? Though JavaScript itself is a great programming language, t...

How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:01:04 GMT

The problem of how to handle dates in JSON is one of the more troublesome issues that may arise when directly calling ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods.. Since the question of how I handle this problem is something asked often in emails and in comments on other posts here, I want to address the topic with its own post.

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

$(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:02 GMT

A few examples about how $(document).ready() and pageLoad() differ, practical examples of when both are useful, and a third alternative that is more suitable in some cases.

Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:46:05 GMT

An example of how to detect errors that occur when requesting ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods with jQuery, how to handle them, and how to more attractively present errors to the user.

Username Availability Validator AJAX Control, Release Demo

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:46:02 GMT

Back in September last year (2008), I posted a demo about Username Availability Validator Control. This control developed by the community on a contest initiated by Dave Ward on August 2008 as I remember. At that time the control was in beta. On October 2008 the control was released to public on its first version. And finally I wrote a a very simple documentation on the project Wiki.

Encosia Best of 2005, 5 most popular posts

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Reviewing Dave's stats for the year, you might think the only topic Dave wrote about is jQuery. Of the posts he has written in 2008, 80% of the most popular posts have been jQuery related.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

Using jQuery to display a modal UpdatePanel confirmation

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

An example of using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to display the result of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel's partial postback as a modal confirmation dialog.

Using jQuery to display a modal UpdatePanel confirmation

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

An example of using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to display the result of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel's partial postback as a modal confirmation dialog.

Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:31:10 GMT

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.

Avoid this tricky conflict between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:31:03 GMT

One example of how ASP.NET AJAX can conflict with jQuery's plugins, due to its modification of some JavaScript base types, and how to fix the problem in this particular case.

Avoid this tricky conflict between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:31:03 GMT

One example of how ASP.NET AJAX can conflict with jQuery's plugins, due to its modification of some JavaScript base types, and how to fix the problem in this particular case.

Contribute to open source, get a shot at a free book

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Win one of three copies of Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls by participating in an open source contest on CodePlex.

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.

How to easily enhance your existing tables with simple CSS

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:01:02 GMT

A detailed example of how to use CSS to style an HTML table. The example is specifically focused on styling a table generated on the client-side via AJAX, but is applicable to any HTML table.

How to easily enhance your existing tables with simple CSS

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:01:02 GMT

A detailed example of how to use CSS to style an HTML table. The example is specifically focused on styling a table generated on the client-side via AJAX, but is applicable to any HTML table.

Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:16:04 GMT

An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain.