ASP.NET AJAX under the hood

Great article by Omar Al Zabir on some advanced tips & tricks using AJAX. Omar is the architect behind Pageflakes.com and uses ASP.NET / AJAX as the foundation. If you're using AJAX, much like I am, you will find the article very useful. It goes into batch calls, timeouts, caching, javascript tricks, and a few other items.

One thing I found very useful was how Omar implemented a "retry" feature when doing an AJAX call. This is exactly (or very close to) what I have implemented in my StickTo application. So go on and take a look. And in the near future I'll be posting some AJAX tips of my own including: displaying a progress bar without an update panel and how to use JSON de/serialization from client/server and back.

Project Foundation

Ok, it's late... I've had a stressful day... and I'd like to try the new Blogger Beta posting... so here goes.

I've finalized my foundation for my new project. After many hours researching and learning about some of this stuff I have chosen a very sexy set of tools and components as my new foundation. Here it is:

• Visual Studio 2005 / ASP.NET 2.0 / VB.NET


• ASP.NET AJAX


• Prototype


• Script.aculo.us


• Curvy Corners - Snicker all you want the curves are sexy ;)


• And I've been looking at Wilson ORMapper or NHibernate - not sure yet
  

There ya go! If anyone has any suggestions or comments please let me know!