Javascript and Client Scripting

JavaScript holds it all together on the client side. There are a number of extensions that have been made to improve and expand base JavaScript object functionality.

Blog Posts

• Four ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript UI Methods You Should Learn: Dave Ward describes more useful JavaScript functions in his series about ASP.NET AJAX's client-side JavaScript Helper Methods.
• Script# Update: Nikhil Kothari recently updated his awesome Script# framework, which allows you to compile C# into JavaScript.  Included within this update are project and file templates for Visual Studio 2008.  You can learn more about Script# here.
• Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX Mistakes: Dave Ward spells out a few common mistakes people make when using the <asp:UpdatePanel> control that ships with ASP.NET AJAX.
• Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript IntelliSense: A Reference for the "Reference" Tag: The Visual Studio Web Tools Team published this useful reference that details how to use the // <reference> directive within JavaScript pages to reference other JavaScript files, Web services, and JavaScript snippets embedded in assemblies.  You can learn more about Visual Studio 2008's JavaScript IntelliSense support from Scott Guthrie's Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript IntelliSense post.
• jQuery TabContainer Theme with Tab Transition Animations: Matt Berseth describes how you can add more animation to your site, this time building an ASP.NET AJAX extender that provides jQuery-like animation effects.
• Work Smarter: Microsoft AJAX's JavaScript Type Extensions: Dave Ward describes some ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript client-side functionality.  In this article, he discusses using Array.contains, Date.format, and String.format.
• Download Free ASP.NET AJAX In Action Chapter: Scott Guthrie is a big fan of the ASP.NET AJAX in Action book that was published earlier this summer.  He also wrote the foreword to the book.  Download a free PDF copy of chapter 2 from it here and buy it on Amazon.com here.
• What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About JavaScript: Scott Allen outlines the basic concepts that .NET developers should understand when transitioning to JavaScript.
• How Well Do You Know JavaScript?: A list of concepts that JavaScript developers should probably understand.
• JavaScript base type extensions features a number of Microsoft AJAX extensions that improve on existing JavaScript types.
  

Videos

• How Do I: Use Other JavaScript User Interface Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX?
• How Do I: Use JavaScript to Refresh an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel?
• Douglas Crockford on "The JavaScript Programming Language" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4): a great primer for those new to the JavaScript language.
• Douglas Crockford on "An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3): an excellent extension of the previous videos, these videos discuss the complexities surrounding JavaScript, the DOM, and client-side programming in general.
  
• Douglas Crockford on "Advanced JavaScript" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3): the final part of the preceding video series, with more of a deep dive into JavaScript.
  

Enjoy!

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