Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET 4 and Stephen Walther on AJAX

Posted By: Glucose | Oct 21st, 2009 @ 12:09 AM | 3,550 Views | 3 Comments
It's time for a pile of "Hanselminutes on 9" Episodes, Dear Reader! Recently, I spent a day wandering around building 42 trying to dig up the scoop on Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.
In this episode, the Boss Dmitry interrupts Scott and Stephen a number of times with actual work while they dive into how ASP.NET AJAX 4 works. What's this? MSAjax controls exposed as jQuery plugins? What planet is this?
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#Oct 21st, 2009 @ 4:46 PM
bleroy
bleroy

Why is Stephen entirely silent?

#Oct 25th, 2009 @ 10:47 PM
joechung
joechung

The data binding stuff is nifty, though I wish you had just built it as jQuery plugins instead.

 

jQuery 1.4 has $.require - http://docs.jquery.com/JQuery_1.4_Roadmap - and should be out before year's end.

 

Where jQuery really needs help is the UI stuff. Ext, YUI, Dojo, ..., all have better widget frameworks than jQuery UI. Ext in particular just looks so much better than all of the other stuff. It's no wonder that Adobe (AIR) and Google (GWT) jumped on the Ext bandwagon.

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