Monthly Archives: March 2009

Building an AJAX web part with jQuery (Part 3)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 31, 2009
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In part 1 of this series I explained a bit about the context and goal of creating an AJAX web part without using ASP.Net AJAX. I also showed the steps necessary for creating services that return data in the JSON format. In part 2 I showed you how to call these services from JavaScript and render the HTML for the [...]
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Building an AJAX web part with jQuery (Part 2)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 31, 2009
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In part 1 of this series I explained a bit about the context and goal of creating an AJAX web part without using ASP.Net AJAX. I also showed the steps necessary for creating services that return data in the JSON format. In this post I’ll show you how to call these services from JavaScript and insert the data in [...]
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Building an AJAX web part with jQuery (Part 1)

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 30, 2009
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In this series of posts I will describe how I build a web part full of AJAX functionality using jQuery and some plugins for jQuery. Why? ASP.Net AJAX is quite hard to implement using only code. Besides that, having multiple updatepanels and multiple triggers outside of these updatepanels, can complicate stuff very quickly. So I decided to see how much [...]
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jQuery performance optimization tips

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 24, 2009
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Sometimes all the cool effects and functionality you’ve build on top of jQuery turn out to be a bit sluggish. Here are a few tips to optimize performance. 1) Use jQuery 1.3+. This one utilizes the new Sizzle selector engine which is much faster then the selector engine in the jQuery versions before that. 2) Make your selectors as [...]
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Using a template plugin for jQuery to parse JSON data

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 13, 2009
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When you’re building an AJAX control in .Net there a a few possibilities. One of them is using AJAX.Net updatepanels. This saves you from writing tedious javascript code to refresh parts of you page. With the arrival of javascript libraries such as jQuery it’s much easier to create the AJAX functionality you want with javascript. However, you still have [...]
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