Tag: Development
HTML Forms: jQuery Basics - Getting Started
by admin on Aug.01, 2010, under HTML, jQuery
So what is jQuery? From the jQuery web site: “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”
Okay, but what does that mean to me? Put simply, jQuery will help you write JavaScript faster using a simpler syntax. Instead of writing extra lines of code or the writing the same code over and over, you can use jQuery to consolidate the code. jQuery will do the heavy lifting while you can concentrate on the more important stuff.
jQuery also supports the idea of plugins. Plugins allow people to create mini-libraries that complement jQuery. The plugins can be anything from form validation to picture slide shows. We will look at plugins in future articles. (continue reading…)
New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET
by admin on Aug.01, 2010, under ASP.net
Earlier this week I blogged about IIS Express, and discussed some of the work we are doing to make ASP.NET development easier from a Web Server perspective.
In today’s blog post I’m going to continue the simplicity theme, and discuss some of the work we are also doing to enable developers to quickly get going with database development. In particular, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just completed the engineering work that enables Microsoft’s free SQL Server Compact Edition (SQL CE) database to work within ASP.NET applications. This enables a light-weight, easy to use, database option that now works great for ASP.NET web development.
Introducing SQL Server Compact Edition 4
SQL CE is a free, embedded, database engine that enables easy database storage. We will be releasing the first public beta of SQL CE Version 4 very shortly. Version 4 has been designed and tested to work within ASP.NET Web applications. (continue reading…)