December 2006 Blog Posts

  • How To: Enable Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Extension RC1 (and Dec. 2006 CTP) on an existing site

    [Old article warning... you are probably looking for this.] [Here’s the latest update to my series of articles on enabling MS Ajax and the CTP in an existing site. Sorry, there are enough changes that we need a new article.  By the way I provide the differences between the last beta and the rc1] Enabling Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Extensions As with the last time we need to make some edits to the Web.Config file. ...

  • Land of the ORMs

    As many of you know I have made some strong statements in the past regarding ORMs (in fact I’ve probably lost readers over it).  Recently in my day job, I was given two projects that I decided to use an ORM for (and I used different ones each time).  I used the writings of my fellow blogger, David Haydn, to help me settle on an ORM for each project. Project #1 – CastleProject’s ActiveRecord with MS AccessYes, you read that right.  I had to use Access with a fairly small web project (this was the client’s spec not mine).  So as...

  • Script#!!!!! (new release)

    I hope I don’t upset Nikhil Kothari off (unless I missed his announcement), but I was on his projects site today and noticed that he’s updated Script# (the Ajax toolkit I have been having the most fun with lately). The new release appears to include support for WPF/E, .aspx code-behind, the “Atlas” type-system, and an installer… If you haven’t played with it before let me explain what it is.  Script# is a toolkit that let’s you write C# code and have it “compiled” into javascript.  Now, if you are like me that sounds like a horrible idea (isolating the programmer from the...