I've found myself in need of debugging the javascript for the Ajax toolkit controls (AjaxCotnrolToolkit.dll) and in some cases the ASP.Net AJAX libraries. Here's how to set up an existing ajax-enabled web site to run from source code. This is intended for people using the Ajax framework... [More]

In a recent web project I had a requirement for incremental searching - for each character entered into a text box we need to call a search function on the server and update a list displayed in a div in the browser. ASP.Net and a bit of Ajax makes this task quite simple. Calling The Server-Si... [More]

Update: After looking into this a bit further I found the problem doesn't exist in the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 (the same library bundled with ASP.Net 3.5). The same fix I propose here is implemented in that version...go me! Bill Gates must read my blog ;-P. So if you can upgrade, go for tha... [More]

Internet Explorer has a handy 'activeElement' property on the document object which keeps track of the current element that has focus. Firefox 3 is going to support the same property inline with the HTML 5 specification but that's a fair way off so here's a work around: [co... [More]