Tag Archives: JavaScript

Getting Started with AngularJS Video Series

As more and more functionality moves to the client developers are finding that writing JavaScript-centric applications from scratch can be challenging and frustrating. As a result, numerous JavaScript libraries and frameworks have sprouted up to help simplify the development process … Continue Reading

Single Page Application (SPA) Frameworks

One of the more popular acronyms being thrown around now days in the Web world is SPA which stands for Single Page Application. The acronym is a bit misleading since it infers that an application is built with only a single … Continue Reading

Getting Started with Grunt a JavaScript task build tool

JavaScript, JavaScript, JavaScript! It seems that just about everywhere you turn now days you here about “this framework” or “that library” being based on JavaScript. If you like JavaScript (and I do) then that’s a good thing but it also … Continue Reading

Using jQuery Deferred Objects and Promises Instead of Callbacks

In a previous post jQuery Tip #7 – Consolidating jQuery Ajax Calls I talked about how Ajax calls can be consolidated into a JavaScript object to promote re-use and simplify maintenance. In that post I showed how the Revealing Module Pattern … Continue Reading

Creating Handlebars Template Helpers

In a previous post Using Handlebars Templates to Render HTML on the Client I discussed how the Handlebars script can be used to dynamically generate HTML on the client. It provides a simple yet powerful way to convert data retrieved … Continue Reading

The Future of jQuery by Dan Wahlin

jQuery is still the most popular script library around with the latest jQuery Usage Statistics showing that over 50% of the top 100,000 sites use it. That's a huge number especially given that no other script even comes close to … Continue Reading

Using Handlebars Templates to Render HTML on the Client

As more and more functionality moves to the client it's important to convert JSON data into HTML using techniques that make maintenance easy down the road. Fortunately, there are several different template frameworks out there that can be used to … Continue Reading

Getting Data in and out of ASP.NET Applications using Ajax and jQuery – Using WCF – Part 2 by Dan Wahlin

In my previous post I discussed how to use ASP.NET Web Services to serve up JSON data to applications. As a quick review, there are several different techniques that can be used including the following: 1. ASP.NET Web Services (.asmx) … Continue Reading

Getting Data in and out of ASP.NET Applications using Ajax and jQuery – Part I by Dan Wahlin

Web applications have changed a lot over the years. When they first started in the 90's nearly every action a user performed on a page caused the page to fully reload. Full page postback operations were the norm and something … Continue Reading

How to create an ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit Extender Control to Extend a GridView

In a previous post I showed examples of how CSS and JavaScript code could be used to freeze the header row of a GridView control and add scrolling capabilities for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Here’s an example of a GridView … Continue Reading

Freeze ASP.NET GridView Headers by Creating Client-Side Extenders

Lately I've been working on a pet project where I needed to freeze a GridView header so that it didn't move while the grid records were scrolled by an end user.  After searching the Web I came across a lot … Continue Reading

Creating Custom ASP.NET Server Controls with Embedded JavaScript

I did some consulting work recently for a company that had a lot of JavaScript embedded in pages that was used used to perform advanced client-side functionality and make AJAX calls back to the server.  The company needed additional team members … Continue Reading

Calling Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript, Video – Dan Wahlin

ASP.NET AJAX provides several different ways to call Web Services including JavaScript, XML Script and the AutoCompleteExtender. In this video tutorial you'll see how to call Web Services using JavaScript. Topics covered include creating a Web Service, applying the ScriptService … Continue Reading

Debugging ASP.NET AJAX Applications with VS.NET 2005

Update: This video was created before the final release of ASP.NET AJAX and refers to the client-side debug class. This class was renamed to Sys.Debug in the final release of the product. Debugging is a key skill that every developer … Continue Reading

Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Triggers and PageRequestManager video by Dan Wahlin

Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX technology provides a quick and simple way to add AJAX capabilities into new or existing Web pages. In this video tutorial I discuss how to use the UpdatePanel, refresh it using triggers and detect when it has … Continue Reading