Developing ASP

We wanted to upgrade the usability of the new site we are developing, i have briefly seen info about the microsoft ajax extentions so i thought i would check it out. The main site is http://ajax.asp.net which has tutorials, articles and downloads. I downloaded the extensions for asp.net 2.0 and i also downloaded the toolkit. Now i had the code i thought i would upgrade one of my pages, i added the script manager and an update pane to one of my pages, in the script manager i set the property “Enable Partial Rendering” to true and then pressed play. The page loaded and when i clicked the submit button it submitted the form and updated the message label without reloading the page. Cool i thought this is going to be straight forward so i thought now i will check out the AJAX Toolkit. I unzipped the solution, loaded it into visual studio and pressed play. Well the build failed because the System.EnterpriseServices assembly wouldn’t load because it didn’t have the correct permissions. So off to google i went, after many unhelpful sites i figured it has something to do with the security levels in the web.config. So i updated the directive “trust” and set it to

<trust level=”Full”/>

I am not too experienced with windows permissions but i don’t think this is too unsafe. Anyway this got it working and i loaded the sample website. There seemed to be many cool controls and i worked out how i could use some of them in the current project. I added the tabs control without much drama but the autocomplete control is giving me trouble. What is cool about it is that it uses web services which i hadn’t done is asp.net before. They seem pretty straight forward which is great as we are going to be using them in the future. One thing i noticed about them is they don’t share the session from the ajax page accessing them.

Welcome to Developing ASP.

I have been developing dot net for about a year now, with many years experience with PHP/MySQL and for the last 3 months have been using ASP.Net. I like to give back to the community as most of my learning comes from what i can find on the web. So here we are with a site dedicated to learning ASP.Net. You can find some of previous work that i have done in PHP at http://www.developing-php.com. There is some javascript stuff there to.