jQuerify your ASP.NET apps - Microsoft Community Tech Days 2010 08 August 2010 NovoGeek (2) Happy to say that I have presented at Microsoft Community Tech Days 2010 on "jQuerify your ASP.NET apps" at Microsoft Hyderabad. The event, organized by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH), had 400+ audience in Developer and IT Pro track!! Presentation: Click here Demos:... [More]
When is AJAX an overkill for your ASP.NET-jQuery web applications? Part-2 15 May 2010 NovoGeek (0) In my previous article, I have discussed about few scenarios where AJAX can be an overkill for our web apps. I would like to add few more such scenarios in this post. (4) Heavy dropdowns: A dropdown control enforces the user to select a value, preventing the entry of unwanted choic... [More]
When is AJAX an overkill for your ASP.NET-jQuery web applications? Part-1 30 April 2010 NovoGeek (2) AJAX libraries have simplified developer’s life by providing clean & easy-to-use API. Their usage is so simple that we developers over use it, without realizing the performance impacts. In this article, I would like to explain few scenarios in which AJAX can be an overkill for your web app... [More]
Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX Library Beta - Microsoft Virtual Tech Days 18 March 2010 NovoGeek (0) Happy to say that I have presented today in Microsoft Virtual Tech Days(VTD) on ASP.NET AJAX Library(BETA) You can download the presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/novogeek/introduction-to-asp-net-ajax-librarybeta I have also uploaded working demos. You can find them here: http://... [More]
Handling AJAX exceptions of ASP.NET using jQuery 13 December 2009 NovoGeek (1) Exception handling is an important feature in any business application. In simple words, it is all about catching ugly errors thrown by server and displaying them in a user friendly manner to the end user. (Of course, logging exceptions/notifications etc may also be a part of exception handling. ) ... [More]
Using .NET’s Register Script methods with jQuery’s $(document).ready() 24 July 2009 NovoGeek (2) In ASP.NET web apps, most of the times we would need to call JavaScript functions in page_load event of code behind, for various valid reasons. In such scenarios, we simply use .NET’s Register Script methods for emitting JavaScript code, which is absolutely fine. If you are using jQuery, ... [More]
Passing JSON objects in .NET 3.5 08 June 2009 NovoGeek (0) In my previous post, I have explained how to pass complex types using jQuery and JayRock in .NET 2.0 framework. I was digging a bit into Dave’s example (using complex types to make calling services less complex) in .NET 3.5 framework, to find how easier JSON serilaization/deserialization can b... [More]
Passing complex types to service calls using jQuery & JayRock 28 May 2009 NovoGeek (0) Scenario: Consider a web form having several fields, whose values are to be submitted to the server through an AJAX call. This can be easily achieved using jQuery’s $.ajax(), passing all the form elements (like first name, last name, city etc) as parameters to the AJAX call. ... [More]
Reading RSS feeds in ASP.NET 15 September 2008 NovoGeek (0) I was trying to build a nice home page for my site and was googling around for web 2.0 sites. Suddenly, I landed on SEOMoz.org and then on pageflakes.com. I then thought of building a mashup start page.So, tried to understand how Microsoft Popfly (an online mashup creator) works. Though its a excell... [More]