29th July 2008

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Featured Article

In this first part of the series, Xianzhong Zhu examines the development of a simple popular blog system under the ASP.NET 3.5 environment and using ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric techniques. After a brief introduction, he provides a detailed overview of the basic system requirements required for building the blog. He then delves deeper into the front-end and back-end pages, architecture and database design of the system and the connection string used for the project. At the end of the article, Xianzhong demonstrates the development of the login page and the homepage of the blog along with the relevant source codes.

http://aspalliance.com/1692_Developing_an_ASPNET_AJAX_Server_Centric_Based_Mini_Blog_System__Part_1

Editor's Comments

ASP.NET MVC is continuing to evolve, and I hope we’ll see a release some time in the near future (i.e. this year). Last week Phil Haack recorded a video showing how to use MVC along with JQuery for Wally McClure’s ASP.NET Podcast. You can read more on Phil’s Blog, or grab the video here. Seeing how MVC combines with AJAX is pretty cool, since in its early days that was definitely one of its challenges. If you are using a few javascript libraries or third party controls, your pages can start to really slow down due to the number of external library calls. Yesterday I blogged about how to improve page load performance by batching up JavaScript files into fewer downloads using a few different techniques. This can dramatically improve the perceived performance of your application from a cold start (that is, before the script files are cached).

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