JavaScript Tutorials & Articles
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Remote Scripting Made Easy
by Bruce JohnsonBruce Johnson demonstrates how to use remote scripting to execute server-side functions without leaving the current page.
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Remote Scripting With JavaScript and ASP
by Mitchell HarperRemote scripting is an extremely powerful feature available in both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. It allows us to use a combination of scripting languages to call server side ASP code from the client using JavaScript. In this article Mitchell shows us how to install remote scripting as well as two examples of using it to interact with ASP scripts using client-side JavaScript code.
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Using ASP.NET Server Controls
by Carvin WilsonA basic overview of ASP.NET and how to use server controls
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Oracle8 and Oracle8i
by Wrox PressHow to access Oracle 8 and Oracle8i databases... A sample chapter from the book 'ASP Data Access'
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VB Editions
by James CrowleyThis tutorial describes the different versions and editions of VB available, and what you can do with them.
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Using HTML5 History in an ASP.NET MVC Site
by Dan MaharrySay that each time the user clicks on a menu item in your application, the entire page is refreshed. Not such a big deal if you have a high speed connection, but, if there is a lot of content on the page, this can be a problem. What we need is the ability to fill in the partial view of data and change around the styles on the page without refreshing the complete page. This is where the HTML5 History API comes in, and that’s what this article based on HTML5 for .NET Developers is all about.
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Using JavaScript Unobtrusively
by Dan MaharryWith a bit of thought and time, the JavaScript defining a page's behavior can be as quiet on a page as its CSS. In this extract from Professional jQuery, Cesar Otero and Rob Larsen demonstrate how.
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The HTML5 Drag and Drop API
by Dan MaharryIn this extract from Professional Javascript for Web Developers, Nicholas Zakas looks at the new Javascript Drag and Drop API in HTML5, its use and current level of browser support
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An Introduction To WebSockets
by Shwetank DixitIn this article, Shwetank Dixit introduces the WebSockets protocol and API, the problem they are designed to solve, and the first few lines of code to get you started enabling your web applications with this technology
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Working with Mobile Devices in HTML5 and CSS3
by Dan MaharryWith an ever increasing number of mobile devices demanding we code our websites to look good at any number of resolutions, this extract from Murach's HTML5 and CSS3 present some rules of thumb for developing websites that work nicely with every device
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Debugging Javascript with Firebug
by Dan MaharryIn this extract from the book JavaScript & Query: The Missing Manual, David Sawyer McFarland demonstrates how to use Firebug to identify and fix three types of errors: syntax, runtime and logic.
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The HTML5 History API and ASP.NET MVC
by Dan MaharryThe HTML 5 History API is one of the newer kids on the HTML 5 block. This article based on chapter 4 of HTML5 for .NET Developers shows you one way of getting history integrated with your .NET server-side web applications.
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 3: Testing Asynchronous AJAX Calls
by Yann TrevinConcluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls
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Using NuGet Packages
by Dan MaharryNuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project.
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Building an HTML5 application with WebSharper Sitelets, Part 1
by Adam GraniczIn this article, we're going to look at using WebSharper, a web development framework for .NET, to build a small web application from scratch that features an HTML5-based clock.
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Developer Burnout Sounds The Alarm
by Richard RabinsWindows 8, built on HTML5 and JavaScript, has swelled the operating system glut and heightened demands of application development. Can developers fan the flames of burnout?