Bilal Haidar [MVP, MCT] Official Blog

The ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap is published and can be reached here (http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14924) Enjoy it!   Regards       

Two news videos has been added by Joe Stagner on the AJAX Technology by MSFT. Check them out, really valuable (as always): #65 | How Do I:The AJAX Toolkit Reorder Control #66 | How Do I:Retrieve Values From Server Side AJAX Controls  Hope this helps,Regards

I have posted a new article on the ASP.NET Wiki and the article is titled as: How to Postback Asynchronously from inside a GridView   Check it out and have your comments and improvements!Regards

Today, I will have a new article on inline-edit control using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions published on www.aspalliance.com. That script I wrote was based on a script written by native AJAX. It was simply an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Component and not a real control. I have created lately a new ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Control called InlineEditLabel control. This ...

The AJAX Control Toolkit has a new version released! This release contains mainly a set of bug fixes and making existing extenders more stable and robust! Check the website on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=AtlasControlToolkit  Regards

I was surprised to know that in the new ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Client Library, a new data type has been added which is the StringBuilder. As you know either in C# or VB.NET, when you are concatinating a large number of strings, each time you concat a string to another string, a new memory location is being assigned to the resulting string. However, ...

I have presented yesterday an overview of the major sections in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Extensions in the Community Night gathering that took place in the Metropolitan Hotel. There will be a series of AJAX session by me to go in depth into all the fields of AJAX. Wait for them :). You can download the PPT file from here: AJAX 1.0 Extensions ...

A very nice blog post by Joe Stagner on the existing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Shortcuts can be reached here: http://joeon.net/archive/2007/08/16/ASP.NET-AJAX-Shorthand-Syntax.aspx It is a must-read post!!   Regards

I kindly invite you all to check my latest article on the www.aspalliance.com: http://aspalliance.com/1274 Hope you will enjoy it! Regards

I kindly invite you all to check my latest article on the www.aspalliance.com: http://aspalliance.com/1285 Hope you will enjoy it! Regards

While preparing a sample application to my new article on aspalliance.com that will be published soon on Creating Client Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions, I had to bind an event handler to a button created in the render method of the control. Usually, event handlers are called with an empty argument which is of type Sys.EventArgs. ...

Another quick note on the event's order when for instance a button inside an UpdatePanel fires an event: 1- The Button inside the UpdatePanel is clicked, this means a new asynchronous postback request is initiated2- PageRequestManager fires the initializeRequest event3- PageRequestManager fires the beginRequest event4- Request sent to the ...

Just a quick note to illustrate the event order of a page that has a ScriptManager control and loads for the first time: 1- Request sent to the server2- Response received from the server3- Application instance raises the Init event4- Application instance raises the load event   Hope this helps,Regards

For all new ASP.NET AJAX developers, I advise you to attend the coming web cast on Monday, May 14, 2007. Check it more details here: Russ and Joe Developer Show: ASP.NET AJAX from Scratch Hope this helps,Regards

I was playing around with creating an AJAX client class, in which I had a function to call a Webservice. I specified the callback function to run when the response is back from the Webservice. The code is as follows:         // Define a namespace        ...

Rob Bagby, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist, is running in the coming weeks a series of Webcasts on the Client Side of ASP.NET AJAX, here is the list: ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Calling Web Services (5/3/07 @1:00 p.m. Arizona time) ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Object-Oriented Development (5/15/07 @9:00 a.m. Arizona time) ASP.NET AJAX ...

I have attended the first live MSDN Webcast in my life yesterday by a great presenter Rob Bagby. Few days ago I watched his first webcast which was ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Overview, he promised to have a series of like 8+ web casts on the same topic!! Yesterday's webcast was perfect, Rob went into so many details that are very ...

I must have forgot to mention there is still the Load method after PageLoaded and before EndRequest events!! Have a graphical look at the client side page life cycle here at this nice blog post by David Barkol: ASP.NET AJAX: Client-side event viewer   Hope this helps, Regards

I have recently started reading about ASP.NET AJAX. I have been always writing the AJAX code manually using the XMLHttpRequest object and other third-party great controls like the Telerik control! I decided to work with the FREE Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX. I would like to share with you a very important issue which is the request-life-cycle. The ...

I was all day preparing the demo code for my next article on www.aspalliance.com under the title of Introduction to JSON. I have a dropdownlist, where a user can select an item and I will show more details on the selected item. I am using AJAX and on the server I am responding by JSON-formatted text. In IE 7, only first time I select an item ...