AJAX updateprogress control

Recently just started playing some AJAX features. Well one of the common feature is updateprogress control. It provides status information about partial page updates. The good thing is you able to customize the default settings. Also, you can replace "updating in progress" statement with animated indicator progress. One of the cool site to generate ajax loader is ajaxload.info This website let you generate many types of loader. Here are some recommended links:

• UpdateProgress Control Overview
• Codeproject: The UpdateProgress Control of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
• AJAX Activity indicators

Microsoft VS 2008

Aug 19th attended microsoft talk at PSDC. It was 1/2 day talk. Topic covers as follow

• .NET platform and its benefits for VB developers ~ Patrick Yong
• Migrate from VB6 to VB.net ~Ian Su
• TIps and Tricks of VB9 - Patrick Yong
• Tips and tricks to migrate from ASP to ASP.net - Walter Wong

All these speakers are from Microsoft. One of interesting topic is refactoring. Meaning a tool is use to checking against classic code ie.VB to see which lines of code need to change. Even have tool tips on the code change explanation. I guess microsoft developer did get job for VS2008 as really simplified developers job. In old days, need to write hundreds of line codes just to generate piece of output. Now all u need to do is click here n there.. viola output is generated. So what do u think sh those classic codes turn in .NET world? Hrm i wonder ....

Here some cool site/tools recommended by speaker

• MSDN Ramp up
• Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Assessment Tool
• MSDN Blogs
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Configuration Editor

The moment is here

Ppl have been talking about olympic everywhere. This year is held in Beijing, China on 8th Aug 2008 @080808. It's a nice figure as for chinese 8 is represent "fatt" which means prosperity. I guess it's day not to forget for Beijing as which such lovely figure. Also, it's a public holiday for Beijing folks too. I can't wait to watch the opening ceremony (hopefully didn't miss on every second). Here's some link about the olympic

• The official website of Beijing 2008 olympic
• Schedule and Results
• Torch relay
  

Cheat Sheets

learnvisualstudio.net is offering some free cheat sheets. Find it useful as some of the tips use it very often.

• VB Language Basics
• C# Language Basics
• ASP.net Language Basics