Entries tagged with ajax - Channel 9

Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6

James Senior — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:47:00 GMT

I sat down with Stephen Walther from the Microsoft Ajax team to talk about their new release - Preview 6 - of the Microsoft Ajax Library.

Stephen walks us through the three big enhancements in this release:

- Addition of the imperative syntax
- The Script Loader
- jQuery support enhancements

We go on to talk about how this will be the last release before we launch the Microsoft Ajax Library before the upcoming Microsoft PDC conference in November and also mention the new Microsoft Ajax CDN where we now have hosted the Microsoft Ajax Library and jQuery.

To download the latest preview and get more information on the Microsoft Ajax Library head over to http://www.asp.net/ajax and also be sure to check out these related blog posts from the rest of the Microsoft Ajax team:

Scott Guthrie has the big announcement
James Senior has details on the Script Loader
Bertrand Le Roy has a blog post on imperative templates

Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits - Doloto: Download Time Optimizer for Web 2.0 Apps

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:33:00 GMT

Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits present the ideas behind Doloto. Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications.

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Seadragon Ajax Control - Quick Start Guide

James Senior — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:42:00 GMT

Bertrand has just written a great post about our new Seadragon Ajax Control which we launched today as part of the Ajax Control Toolkit. I spent some time today going through the process of creating a Zeep Zoom Composer project from one of my photos and then bringing it into a web app using the new control.

This screencast walks you through how to do the whole thing from beginning to end.

Links you need

· Download Deep Zoom Composer

· Download ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit

Also of interest:

· Live Labs Seadragon Homepage
· How Deep Zoom works

· DeepZoomPix Service

Web Application Toolkit: Bing Search

James Senior — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers programmatic access to Bing, offering flexible options for building or enhancing your site or applications. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site by leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images, news and videos, among others. Through this Web Application Toolkit you will also discover how to use ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to provide an enhanced and more interactive end user experience when using the Bing API.

Downloads and Links

Feedback

We love to hear your feedback, ideas and comments so drop us an email to webapp@microsoft.com. Keep up-to-date with the latest releases of Web App Toolkits by subscribing to the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/webapptoolkits or following us on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/microsoftweb

Web Application Toolkits: FAQ

James Senior — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:05:00 GMT

The majority of Web sites have the need to display a list of frequently asked questions to their users. Although it's not difficult to create a simple set of FAQ pages, creating a great user experience that supports searching for FAQs, filtering, and paging, can become more difficult. Furthermore, this is often common functionality that has to be implemented repeatedly in multiple Web sites.

The goal for this Web Application Toolkit is to provide a reusable set of assets, like ASP.NET pages, data access code, and database schemas, for integrating Frequently Asked Questions into your own Web application. The FAQ pages of this Toolkit include the following features:

Browse and view FAQs organized by topics
An interactive user experience using jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX
Search for FAQs by keywords
Access FAQs through friendly URLs (for example /Faq/bidding-and-buying/how-do-i-buy-an-item)
FAQs Ratings

Downloads and Links

Feedback

Guidance for the Web from p&p - Survey now Live

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:29:00 GMT

p&p is gearing up to create next set of guidance for web applications. Before we get going on this, true to p&p spirits, we would like to gather feedback from you on what are the important areas to focus with this guidance effort. Your input is very important to the project’s success. Blaine just posted a survey to capture your input.

Please take a moment to complete this survey. Feel free to forward the survey link to your colleagues and friends.

We appreciate your help,

Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman - AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:34:00 GMT

Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman talk about the Ajax Profiling Extensions (also known as AjaxView), a tool that allows to profile web sites using Ajax. The tool lets you investigate the performance of the client side javascript! Ben and Emre explain how the profiling works, i.e. how they instrument the javascript on the fly, collect execution traces, and so forth. They also show a really cool demo of the tool where they turn on profiling for a couple web pages, then analyze the performance directly in Visual Studio.

Ajax Profiling Extensions @msdn: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AjaxView
AjaxView @MSR: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ajaxview/

(We have a new jingle for the RiSE videos thanks the musical talent of Tom Ball. The full track of "San Juan Strut" can be found at www.themiddlethird.org)

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Scott Hanselman - NerdDinner.com

Robert Hess — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:39:00 GMT

Scott Hanselman did an interesting session at MIX09 called "File|New -> Company", where he essentially started with a blank screen, and using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Ajax, and Model View Controller he created an entire website called "NerdDinner.com", which is a social networking sites for... well... nerds, to allow them to coordinate with their friends what restaurants to go to and what to eat.

While we didn't have time in this episode to let Scott repeat this feat, we did get a chance to talk with him about how the various technologies he utilized worked with the tools in order to make it possible.

If you really want to see him take on this challenge, you can watch his session from MIX09:

File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)

And if you want more details about Scott, NerdDinner.com or Model View Controller, here are some additional links:

Northeast Roadshow - UX Options

Brian Johnson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:50:00 GMT

There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to building applications on the Microsoft platform – traditional desktop application or browser-based application? Web Forms or Win Forms? AJAX or Silverlight? Rich versus reach?

This session covers the array of options and offers some insight into selecting the user experience delivery options that are best for your application’s target audience. Also included is a brief discussion of the software factories and other guidance provided by the patterns & practices team at Microsoft.

You can find slides and samples from the Northeast Roadshow events here at the Northeast Roadshow Code Gallery Site.

deCast - Building an AJAX-Friendly WCF Service

Rob Bagby — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:24:00 GMT

WCF 3.5 provides the ability to easily expose services to AJAX client applications. Specifically, the webHttpBinding has an "AJAX-Friendly" endpoint behavior. What do I mean by "AJAX-Friendly"? To me, it means that we will create a client proxy that knows how to call your service from an AJAX client. What used to take dozens, if not hundreds, of lines of code now takes 3. In this screencast, Rob Bagby will illustrate how this works in great detail.

ARCast.TV - Andrew Espinosa of Monster.com on adoption of ASP.NET AJAX

Bob Familiar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Andrew Espinosa, Principal User Experience Engineer at Monster.com, discusses their adoption of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX with Bob Familiar. Andrew talks about some challenges they had and what the benefits are now that they have ASP.NET AJAX deployed.

ASP.NET AJAX: To Do Liste

Oliver Scheer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:51:00 GMT

In diesem kleinen Video wird demonstriert, wie man mit Hilfe des ScriptManagers, UpdatePanel und UpdateProgress-Controls seine Webseite AJAX-ifizieren kann.
Nebenbei wird eine kleine Aufgabenverwaltung programmiert :-)

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit: Erste Schritte

Oliver Scheer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:49:00 GMT

Das ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit ist ein von der Community und Microsoft gemeinsam gefördertes Projekt, das eine Vielzahl von Controls beinhaltet, die auf AJAX und ASP.NET AJAX basieren und sofort in eigenen bestehenden Webseiten verwendet werden kann.
Dieses Video gibt einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf die Funktionalitäten und wie man es in sein erstes Projekt einbinden kann.

Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert builds off of the concepts shown in his previous screencast and shows you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To learn more about the GeoRSS utility library, visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/archive/2008/07/01/simple-georss-utility-library-released.aspx

A big thanks to Eugenio Pace for letting me use it as part of my sample!

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/19/screencast-rendering-polygons-from-sql-server-2008-on-virtual-earth.aspx

Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/18/screencast-saving-virtual-earth-polygons-to-sql-server-2008.aspx

Sitios web interactivos con ASP.NET AJAX

Elisa García — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:56:00 GMT

¿Qué implica hacer un desarrollo con AJAX? ¿Cuáles son las tecnologías en las que se apoya? ¿Cuál es la propuesta del framework ASP.NET AJAX?

En esta sesión, David Salgado nos explicó cómo mejora la experiencia de navegación del usuario de un sitio web cuando navega por una web construida utilizando la tecnología AJAX y cómo el framework ASP.NET AJAX nos permite construir este tipo de aplicaciones de una manera sencilla y potente.

David Salgado trabaja en la división de desarrollo y plataforma de Microsoft Ibérica, ayudando a las comunidades de desarrolladores profesionales a adoptar nuevas tecnologías.

Si te interesa, también puedes descargar la Presentación y las Demos que David utilizó durante la charla.

Desarrollo de frontales web con Visual Studio 2008 y .NET Framework 3.5

Elisa García — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:28:00 GMT

En una de las sesiones plenarias del Evolution Show, José Manuel Alarcón hace un repaso de las novedades que introducen en el desarrollo web ASP.NET 3.5 y Visual Studio 2008.

Durante la charla repasa la evolución en el desarrollo web, CSS, AJAX, ListView, DataPager, LinqDataSource, JavaScript, multitarteting… y muchas otras materias.

José Manuel Alarcón es MVP de ASP.NET y, además, es CTO en Krasis

También puedes descargar la presentación.

AJAX avanzado

Elisa García — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:48:39 GMT

¿Qué implica hacer un desarrollo con AJAX? ¿Cuáles son las tecnologías en las que se apoya? ¿Cuál es la propuesta del framework ASP.NET AJAX?

En una de las sesiones del pasado ReMix, David Salgado explicó cómo mejora la experiencia de navegación del usuario de un sitio web cuando navega por una web construida utilizando la tecnología AJAX y cómo el framework ASP.NET AJAX nos permite construir este tipo de aplicaciones de una manera sencilla y potente.

David Salgado trabaja en la división de desarrollo y plataforma y de Microsoft Ibérica, ayudando a las comunidades de desarrolladores profesionales a adoptar nuevas tecnologías.

Además, si te interesa, puedes descargar tanto la presentación como las demos que David utilizó durante la ponencia.

MSDN Video 2008

Elisa García — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:12:00 GMT

MSDN Video 2008 es una iniciativa de MSDN España con la que puedes aprender las últimas tecnologías de .NET aplicadas a un desarrollo real de una implementación ficticia de un videoclub.

Su funcionalidad, aunque básica, es muy común con otras aplicaciones empresariales:

Gestión de usuarios (socios, administradores) y permisos.
Gestión de artículos (catálogo de películas)
Gestión de lógica de negocio (stocks, ventas y alquileres)

Utiliza las últimas tecnologías aplicadas de forma integrada en la misma solución:

LINQ: acceso a datos y la creación de entidades.
Windows Communication Foundation: exposición de los servicios.
ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight: creación del sitio web del videoclub.
Windows Forms 3.5: herramienta de administración para gerentes de tienda.
Windows Presentation Foundation: cajero automático en tiendas.

En este video, presentamos un paseo por la funcionalidad de la aplicación.

Puedes encontrar la aplicación completa en Desarrolla Con MSDN.

Digital Asset Management with Interactive Media Manager

Kirk Evans — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:57:21 GMT

Kirk Evans interviews Mark Kashman, the Product Manager for Interactive Media Manager. IMM is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system built on top of SharePoint 2007. In this episode, we take a look at the architecture of IMM, see it in action, and we even see a sneak preview of a Silverlight-based rough cut editor that will be a part of the next version of IMM. We also hear how Starz is using IMM to manage their assets and create cut lists for feature promos.

geekSpeak recording: Advanced ASP.NET with Michele Leroux Bustamante

llangit — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:43:16 GMT

Michèle Leroux Bustamante is chief architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems. At IDesign, Michèle provides training, mentoring, and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on Web services, scalable and secure architecture design for Microsoft .NET, federated security scenarios, Web services, and interoperability and globalization architecture. Michele participates in software design reviews for products in the Microsoft road map, including Windows Communication Foundation, CardSpace, and other security-focused products. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a program advisor to University of California San Diego (UCSD) Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O'Reilly, 2007)—see her book blog here: www.thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.

In the geekSpeak, Michele discusses timely topics in ASP.NET such as extending the ASP.NET profile service by appropriately using custom HttpModules to support dynamic implementation of master pages, application localization and more. She goes on to discuss improvements to ASP.NET like the AJAX-programming paradigm with asynchronous access to data, and then the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions - new MVC, new ADO.NET data services libraries.

Michele gives her perspective on RIAs, including Flash, Silverlight, typical web applications and WPF (or rich client) - when to use which one from an architectural perspective.

She goes on to discuss SOAP vs. REST WCF services and the evolution of the programming model from raw SOAP message construction to REST-based calls which include wrappers and then onto JSON-based WCF services. Next she shows the the ServiceHostFactory, and the WebScriptServiceHostFactory. She then presents the ASP.NET extensions ADO.NET data services (formerly Astoria). She concludes with an interesting discussion of when to use which type of service - SOAP or REST.

Chris Wilson: Inside IE8 Beta 1 For Developers

Charles — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:38:34 GMT

Today, we release IE8 Beta 1 to the world! It's a developer-focused version of IE 8 (thus the name) with a host of new dev features. Chris Wilson, Platform Architect and long time IE team veteran sits down with me to dig into the details of IE8 Beta 1. Some of coolest new features include Activities, Webslices, Javascript debugging and tools, DOM storage, AJAX enhancemnets, cross-Domain AJAX, and more. Chris also talks about the core architecture of IE8 (Trident, MSHTML, etc).

Tune in.

Check out a detailed walk through of Webslices on Visitmix. Also, Channel 10 has a broad overview of these with demos!

Low res file here.

ASP.NET AJAX 100

bruceky — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:28:31 GMT

Bruce presents a step-by-step how to for those who want to get started using ASP.NET AJAX. The screencast includes the creation of a user control to put on the page, enable the page to use ASP.NET AJAX using ScriptManager, add an UpdatePanel, add the control to UpdatePanel, and then add an UpdateProgress control. The step-by-step is designed for you to follow along and provides each step that you'd need to know to build the control and then put it into an ASP.NET AJAX page.

JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control

keydet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:02:00 GMT

UPDATE: Folks are experiencing issues sending to the contribution email address. This has been fixed. Details here.

Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008? I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project! This screencast explains the solution.

The project is not finished. I need people to volunteer to contribute so we can release full intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.0. Instructions for people who want to contribute are in the screencast. The more people willing to contribute, the faster we make this available for everyone!

If you want to keep up with what's going on with the project, subscribe to my RSS feed from http://devkeydet.com. The codeplex project is http://codeplex.com/vejs.

Brian Keller and Dan Fernandez: Name this Show!

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:17:41 GMT

This is Episode #1 of <insert.name.here>, a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.

This week we cover:

1. MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg Duncan's Cool Thing of the Day blog)
2. Jason Olsen's Pavel Bansky's Tetris on the .NET Micro Framework
4. C# Future Focus: Dynamic Lookup
5. Dan interviewing Shawn Burke's Tip on disabling optimiziations when debugging reference source code
7. Joel Spolsky on SQL Server 2008 Reset and Phil Factor on Microsoft doing their homework
8. Dan with Scott Guthrie on Windows, Web, and RIA and talking about how he built the <asp:calendar> control
10. Brian and Dan mock each other's hair and how he "poked" Dan's wife on Facebook.
11. Facebook releases JavaScript APIs using Nikhil Kothari's Script# Library
12. CodeProject: Eric Williams HTML Editor control article
13. Josh Holmes Code to Live Video: Create Your own Language Compiler, Lawrence Pit's OOK # .NET
15. Second Life replacing their scripting runtime for LSL with Mono and future .NET languages coming.
16. Brian's Pick of the week: Nic Fillingham's Custom Rockband Drum Kit at CES
17. Dan Pick of the week: Greg Dolley's port of Quake 3 from C to C++/CLI
18. It Came from the internets: What every Microsoft employee does on a conference call
19. Recap: email us at now available.