MaskedInput class's Transform property that I described in depth in a few preceding blog posts presented us with an interesting design dilemma. At first it seemed like it should be a typical enumeration property, with one value for each Transform type. However, since the architecture allowed new Transform types to be added in a number of ...

  Now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has shipped, it's a good time to talk about the next version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. More specifically, I am happy to share some good news on how Microsoft's next major platform release will affect ComponentArt's customers.   Scott Guthrie has a great post on ASP.NET AJAX in .NET ...

Last night we updated the official Web.UI product roadmap. We are about 1-2 weeks off target regarding the release dates that were announced back in November. However, the good news is that the 2007.1 release will include one additional control (Dialog for ASP.NET), adding a total of three new controls: ComboBox, ToolBar, and Dialog. Adding a ...

The final version of ASP.NET AJAX was released today. We are very pleased to simultaneously announce the immediate availability of the full production version of ComponentArt Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX. Taking those "beta" signs off our ASP.NET AJAX product line felt really good! Developing for various technology preview and ...

"Interoperability" is a term that has been used by several ASP.NET control vendors, including ComponentArt, to describe integration with ASP.NET AJAX. However, since we shipped the first public beta release of Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX, we started using new verbiage to describe our product offering: "True ASP.NET AJAX Controls". ...

The ASP.NET team shipped the release candidate for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 late last week. According to Scott Guthrie, "the next public release will be the final, fully supported, 1.0 product", and the final release is expected in about 4 weeks. We have been working with the ASP.NET AJAX RC build for just over a week, and I am pleased to ...

We have just published our first video: ComponentArt Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX. One of the main things we show in this video is how our Web.UI controls utilize the new client-side component model introduced by ASP.NET AJAX to bring more capabilities to client-side coding. We hope that you will find it interesting and informative!

We recently shipped Web.UI 2006.2. The second major release of Web.UI this year includes a brand-new platform build: Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX. However, no new controls were added to the suite this time around. I would like to take this opportunity to provide additional background information, as well as explain why we think that our direction will ...

ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 was publicly released right before Scott Guthrie's keynote presentation at the ASP.NET Connections conference last night here in Vegas. ASP.NET AJAX is now virtually feature-complete and on track to be fully released by the end of the year. We had the opportunity to test our Web.UI code with ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 a few days ...

The Web.UI 2006.2 release brings a brand-new client-side API that uses Microsoft’s AJAX Library syntax across the board: new property accessors, new naming conventions, a new client event mechanism, and more. The new API looks the same even in the non-ASP.NET AJAX builds, providing a way to future-proof your code even if you are not ...