Ajax.net autocomplete clear cache programmatically

With the .net auto complete control, there is an attribute enablecache which tells the auto-complete to use caching or not. If this attribute is set to true, typing the same search text within a set number of seconds, instead of retrieving the data again from the database, the previous search results will be used.
Although caching [...]

Improve your Ajax performance using YSlow and Firebug

YSlow is a plug-in for the Firebug plug-in in Firefox, it is developed by Yahoo and is used for performance profiling. YSlow is a great tool for seeing how your Ajax functions are actually performing.
Apart from the normal benefits of YSlow like analysis of your page size, number of http requests, GZip components, expire headers, [...]

Autocomplete not showing up even though no exception has occured

While working with the Ajax tookit autocomplete extender, I have encountered a very strange problem. On one of the pages where autocomplete were setup, the autocomplete had a huge delay. There were no exceptions, the data was retrieved fine, when in debug mode, the autocomplete would show, but when running on the server, the autocomplete [...]

Ajax Component Source Website – www.ajaxrain.com

The website here www.ajaxrain.com is a really good website for Ajax component resources. The site is updated frequently and lists out different Ajax components by category, language and the library it uses, i.e JQuery, Prototype, .Net.
The site is structured like a blog so you can tag a particular Ajax component or add comments to it [...]

Ajax.Net Update panel, different ways of triggering udates

Update panel is probably one of the first thing that you will use once you get your Ajax toolkit with the .net Framework. Other than the basic button in the panel, I’ve just recently found a few other ways of triggering an refresh in the panel,which wasn’t obvious to me before.
Other than placing an button [...]

Ajax.Net Dynamically load data in Modal Popup

With the Ajax.net modal popup, it is a good way to hide what is not required for the user to see, until the specific action is performed, but because the modal popup is placed within the page it self, just not displaying, if there are drop down list, grids that need to [...]

Ajax.net autocomplete, passing selected value ID to code behind

With the more work I am doing on the Ajax.Net frame work, the more better I am thinking of, but what I found is that sometimes even though the functionalities are all there, they seem to be hidden and you had to really dig deep to find out how to get it working.
Just recently, I [...]

Ajax.Net Multiple Cascade Drop Down List, Pre Load Values from DB

For one of the projects that I was working on, I tried to use the cascade drop down list control provided in the Ajax.Net toolkit. Because I’ve spent hours in the internet and digging through the forum posts to figure out exactly how it works, so I thought I would post it here.
I had two [...]