WUX315 - PHP on Windows: Not an Oxymoron!
Session Day/Time: 6/6/2008 10:15AM-11:30AM
Room: S230 A

Is it a well kept secret? From Microsoft Internet Information Services, to AJAX, to Microsoft .NET, Windows is a viable platform for your existing PHP based applications. In this session, see how to configure PHP on Windows for performance and reliability and how you can take PHP applications to the next level by leveraging .NET and Windows.

WUX314 - AJAX Programming with the Microsoft AJAX Technologies
Session Day/Time: 6/5/2008 4:30PM-5:45PM
Room: S320 C

Microsoft AJAX Developer technologies are a collection of offerings that make AJAX programming slick and productive, but have you wrapped your head around all the pieces? This session provides a soup-to-nuts explanation of the Microsoft AJAX Technology Stack and demonstrates how to use Microsoft Visual Studio for AJAX, The ASP.NET Extension for AJAX, The AJAX Control Toolkit, and non-Microsoft third-party AJAX Libraries to develop true RIAs.

ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide by Matthew Ellis Read more about this book...

Ok readers. Check out this little nugget.

Matthew Ellis and Magma Interactive just released the ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide.

It contains concise chapters packed with useful info for the ASP.NET AJAX Developer including a Client Side Reference, a Server Side Reference, Web Services, Extender Controls, The Control Toolkit and more.

At $1.26 per chapter - It's almost FREE !

Just click on the book image above to get the details over at Amazon.com

I'm a jQuery Fan !

Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008

[ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates. ]

This looked interesting so I thought I would share it.

Please let me know what you think.....

From the CodePlex Description.

The Ajax Data Controls is a DotNetSlackers project. Developed on top of Asp.net Ajax Extension, the main goal of this project is to provide rich set of data controls for Client Centric Development Model. Since the data controls of Asp.net like GridView, DataList, Repeater etc does not have any Client Side Object Model thus it is not possible to work with these controls with Web Service / Page Methods call. The included controls exposes same API in the client side as the Asp.net version with few more enhancements. Currently the project contains the following controls:

• Repeater
• GridView
• DataList
• Pager

http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls

If you reference an ASP.NET page that contains a scriptmanager in your js file like below you get intellisense for the entire Microsoft AJAX Library plus any additional scripts ref’d by the scriptmanager.  The easiest way to get the /// <reference/> entry in your js file is to drag n drop your .aspx page from solution explorer into  the contents of your js file.  VS magically adds the refJ

Since I tend to use stand-alone .js files I can just add this.

/// <reference name="MicrosoftAjax.debug.js" />

to my consuming page and intellisense is wired to my JavaScript code.

Thanks to Marc Schweigert for the reminder !

This is another one of those "Sniper Topics" that I like, again from PAKT Publishing.

Approximately 280 pages of drill down on Object Oriented Client Side development in JavaScript using the Microsoft AJAX Client Libraries.

Not only does this text enumerates the namespaces in the Microsoft AJAX Client Libraries, and provide good coverage of the Client Component Framework, but it teaches all the "whys" along with the "How Tos".

If your building AJAX applications and Microsoft's AJAX technology is at the center of your work then this book is a "must read".

Click on the book image above to check it out on Amazon.com

Thanks to everyone who attended my AJAX Sessions at the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer's Conference in Atlantic City last week.

Here are links to the PowerPoints and Demos

ASP.NET AJAX Security [Demo Code] [PowerPoint Deck]

ASP.NET AJAX Patterns [Demo Code] [PowerPoint Deck]

.... and here are links to the free ASP.NET Security Books from Microsoft Patterns and Practices.

Building Secure ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication

Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures

Happy Reading.

I frequently am asked to server as a technical reviewer on development books. Time doesn't permit me to always say yes but I try to make time to agree to do the more interesting titles.

This book is one I said yes to. Adam and Joel have done a great job of exposing this detailed subject.

Controls are such a powerful re-use mechanism and so under covered.

The book is due for release on July 15th and you can save 5% with an Amazon.com preorder.

[ Click HERE for the book on Amazon.com ]

Does your client code need to know what control caused your update panels to update or which of several UpdatePanels contained the triggering control ? Try this.... (Or do the same thing with addbeginRequest();

    1 <script type="text/javascript">
    2 <!--
    3 var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();
    4 
    5 prm.add_endRequest(EndRequest);
    7 function EndRequest(sender,args)
    8     {
    9     alert(sender._postBackSettings.panelID + " -> " + sender._postBackSettings.sourceElement.id);
   10     }
   11  -->
   12 </script>

 Note that "id" contains the id of the CONTROL that caused the postback. panelId contains a string that appends the event trigger with the UpdatePanel name.   Note that if the update was caused by an event configured in the Triggers Collection or updated explicitly in JavaScript, the "Control" name will be the UpdatePanel.

#71 | How To Dynamically Change CSS Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel

#72 | How To Dynamically Add Controls to a Web Page (and not have them disappear when you post-back)