11th March 2008

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Featured Article

In this first part of the three part series, Bilal Haidar introduces Client Application Services (CLAS) that shipped with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. These services allow Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications to access ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions Application Services. He begins with a brief introduction followed by a detailed discussion of ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX Extensions 1.0, and Client Application Services. He concludes the article by providing a list of classes used for CLAS.

http://aspalliance.com/1595_Client_Application_Services__Part_1

Editor's Comments

As it seems will happen at every MIX event, Microsoft has unveiled some great new things. Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 released last week along with a beta version of IE 8. One of the most interesting Silverlight announcements is Silverlight on mobile devices. This cross-platform integration we’re seeing from Silverlight could make Silverlight a huge success. Some great improvements have been added in version 2.0 beta 1. Some standard controls have been included, networking, data access, and much more. A wealth of knowledge is available online through recordings of Presentations at MIX08. Check them out and enjoy.

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In this article, Brendan reviews the book Joydip Kanjilal has written with Packt Publishing. The book covers the Data Presentation Controls available in ASP.NET 2.0 as well as a small bit of mention of the new technology available in the 3.5 version.

In this video tutorial Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to perform drag and drop operations using the JQuery library. He steps through the process of creating some simple drag and drop behavior. [6:17]

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