Building a simple multiplayer game with ASP.Net MVC and jQuery

published 24 days, 3 hours ago, submitted by TroyMG 26 days, 16 hours ago

squaredroot.com — Last weekend I had presented a small multiplayer-game built in MVC and jQuery as a sample for a speaking engagement. There isn't much to the "game", as you currently can only move around, but it helps illustrate how easy it is to use jQuery and MVC together to make something interesting. Who knows, maybe the source could kick-start development on your own game? read more...

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WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks

submitted by rstrahl 1 month, 12 days ago

west-wind.com — I've been getting a lot of questions in response to my WCF REST session in regards of whether I'd recommend switching to WCF from ASMX services for AJAX functionality recently. WCF provides a host of new REST features, but when it comes to AJAX functionality and especially ASP.NET AJAX compatible functionality there's really nothing compelling there to require changes. In this post I look at what WCF provides for AJAX and some of the things you might watch out for. read more...

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jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

published 1 month, 28 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 1 month, 29 days ago

west-wind.com — With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works. read more...

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Making Element Position Absolute with jQuery

submitted by rstrahl 2 months, 12 days ago

west-wind.com — It's common for me to create DOM elements that pop up ontop of existing content by making them absolutely positioned. Here's a quick plug-in that makes an element absolute consistently. read more...

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HTML Mangling with Literal Controls in the Head tag

submitted by rstrahl 2 months, 18 days ago

west-wind.com — Ran into an odd problem with Literal controls in the head tag of the document causing HTML to get corrupted today. It appears that literal controls - and only literal controls - are causing some odd designer manglage that can result in broken HTML. read more...

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Client Templating with jQuery

published 2 months, 24 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 2 months, 25 days ago

west-wind.com — Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches. read more...

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Introduction to jQuery Article posted

published 3 months, 9 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 3 months, 10 days ago

west-wind.com — I've posted Part 1 in a 2 part series on jQuery today. Part 1 covers the client side features of jQuery from the basics all the way through creating simple plugins and extending jQuery. This is a long article that discusses a host of the really useful features that jQuery brings to the table for client side Javascript development. Part 2 will then follow up with server side ASP.NET integration. read more...

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Client Script Resources in ASP.NET Controls revisited

submitted by rstrahl 3 months, 29 days ago

west-wind.com — Embedding script resources as part of ASP.NET Control development is tricky business and requires a bunch of options to ensure that script code loads correctly and maybe more importantly allows the page developer to decide whether the resources should be used at all. Here are a few thoughts and some work in progress on how I deal with script resources in my controls. read more...

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