UPDATE: I linked to the wrong post. I corrected the link. During the recent Insiders summit, Wally cornered me into recording a really short video demonstrating a feature of ASP.NET MVC. I decided to sprinkle a little Ajax in my demo by showing how to use jQuery to call an action that returns a JsonResult. Specifically, I show how to update a couple of regions in the page (two dom elements) with data pulled from the server. I then add a little sparkle to the demo by implementing the ubiquitous yellow fade when adding the content to the...
Simone Chiaretta, a member of the Subtext development team (among other open source projects), has been quite busy lately. I recently mentioned the Vista Sidebar Gadget for CruiseControl.NET he published. He also was recently in a video interview by MindBlog. Go Simo! The post that caught my eye recently is how to make a Gmail-like loading indicator with ASP.NET Ajax. This is a nice demonstartion of how to use the ASP.NET Ajax library to simulate various styles of user interface. Personally though, I’m not a fan of this particular loading indicator at the page level. When I have my...