The Ajax Control Toolkit is a community project from Microsoft that contains a number of controls to design and implement Ajax-enabled controls seamlessly. In this article, Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to start working with the Ajax Control Toolkit and explores two sample extender controls.
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Not using canonical URLs has a negative impact on your SEO, as Google notices that several URLs are returning the same content and penalizes you. Sukrit Dhandhania shows you how to fix this problem using either httpd.conf or .htaccess.
Read more: How to Setup Canonical Domain Names with Apache

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Is it time to stop blogging and start networking? This CMS has everything a developer needs to create a top of the line social networking site with all the features that users have come to expect from sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Rob Gravelle presents a solution for making Orangoo’s GreyBox library work with HTML Applications (HTAs)using AJAX and the DOM scripts collection. By making the changes in a local script, specialized behavior can be limited to a specific application.
More: Using GreyBox in your HTML Applications: The Unobtrusive JavaScript Solution

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There are a number of ways to handle a maintenance downtime. You can either handle it inside of your web application or you can have Apache automatically direct all traffic to a specified page. This article explains how to have Apache redirect visitors to a maintenance page while still allowing you to view updates/changes.
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Partial-page rendering can be used to refresh only a portion of your web page rather than the entire page. This article discusses how you can implement partial page updates using the Update Panel control and how you can use the Update Progress control in conjunction with the Update Panel control to enhance the user [...]

Web design has come a long way from just creating HTML documents. It is essentially the art of presenting information in a readable, useable and functional manner. Numerous interface elements can be used to achieve the goal, including tabbed layouts, paginated view and modal windows. This article examines the different uses of modal windows.
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This chapter provides you with an overview and introduction to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. The goal of this chapter is to explain why you should build web applications using ASP.NET MVC.
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The JavaScript 2.0 / EMCAScript 4.0 proposal isn’t due to be finalized until the end of the fall of 2009, but it’s already garnering lots of strong reactions - both good and bad. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of the proposed specifications and you can decide for yourself whether they constitute improvements [...]

J. Leidago Noabeb explores the relationship between XML,PHP and MYSQL including a brief look at the Document Object Model.
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Although rich web sites and applications have become the norm in recent years, they can still be difficult to develop, maintain, and expand. Many of the challenges stem from the schism between client and server components. The Jaxer server, developed by Aptana, is an open source Ajax web server for building rich web pages and [...]

Learn how to use the Apache mod_rewrite module to automatically redirect a user to a page designed specifically for their web browser.
Mod Rewrite Part 3 - Redirecting Browser Dependent Content with Apache and Mod Rewrite

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The last installment of this series discusses the lightest implementation of Lightbox. While it is stripped of all the bells and whistles, you are free to add them if you like. It requires no JavaScript framework, only a few lines of JavaScript to open and close the Lightbox.
Read the original here: The Lightest Lightbox

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Joydip Kanjilal, MVP examines how you can use the Microsoft Ajax Library to raise and handle events in your applications and provides some best practices when using event handling in Ajax-enabled web applications.
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Closures are the answer to the problem of how to bind variables to functions that are called at a later time. Today’s article will explain what closures are, outline some common dilemmas, and present ways that closures can be utilized to overcome them.
See original here: Understanding JavaScript Closures

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