I was part of the original development team for Infragistics' ASP.NET WebControls, about 7 years ago.  At the time, JavaScript was still considered a 'hack', and full form postbacks were regularly accepted as the norm.  Man am I glad times have changed.  With new technologies, improved browser support, and lessons learned, it was ...

Tune in on Thursday, April 19, for the first of a series of webcasts hosted by Joe Stagner (Joe On .NET) and yours truly.  This first webcast will show how you can use the UpdatePanel and NetAdvantage for ASP.NET to take your UI to the next level.  To register for the event, follow this link  Live From Redmond: UpdatePanel and ...

Great news!  Infragistics is AJAX RTM Ready!! I'm extremely happy to be able to announce that we have just made NetAdvantage for ASP.NET updates available, that will work with the Microsoft RTM announced today.  Already own NetAdvantage? - After installing Microsoft's AJAX Extensions (available here), you can patch your ...

The long awaited ASP.NET AJAX Release Candidate is finally here!  So the burning question is - what's new?!  I wish I could tell you that this RC is composed of only minor bug fixes, but that wouldn't be fun.  The most notable change was made to the extensions namespace.  Here's a blurb from the release notes - * The ASP.NET AJAX assembly DLL ...

Microsoft has officially released AJAX Extensions Beta 1.  Scott Gu has a great overview of the changes (change log) for the beta.  In particular there were changes made to the UpdatePanel that will affect just about every webcontrol out there.  In prior CTP versions of the UpdatePanel, there was a lot of crafty guess work required to make it work ...