Eliminating the jump to top of page behavior of the Ajax Toolkit Rating control

The Ajax Control Toolkit provides a number of Ajax-enabled server controls and extenders that make it very easy to add Ajax functionality to any ASP.NET driven site. One of these controls is the Rating control. One issue with the rating control is that when clicked, the user experiences a jump to top of page behavior. I have had a few emails from readers wondering how I eliminated this problem with the article rating feature at the bottom of each article page. This article examines how to eliminate this issue.

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Different methods for creating partial page updates

In the typical ASP.NET model, a web form is submitted and the entire page is posted back to the server. The server then generates a response which is then sent back to the client. With the widespread adoption of Ajax and Ajax frameworks, developers can create pages that do not undergo full page refreshes, thus enhancing the user experience. There are different methods for partial page updates and this article will examine two of these methods.

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Build an MSDN style content rater with ASP.NET, MS AJAX, and jQuery

In the MSDN library, content can be rated by clicking on a star (from 1 through 5). When you hover over the content rater on MSDN2, a textbox appears to allow comments to be added. Using the rating control and the jQuery library, we can very easily create a content rater similiar to the one on MSDN.

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Random Rotating Images with Gaia

The aim of this article is to show easy it is to create random, rotating images using the Gaia Ajax Widgets Framework. Gaia provides a suite of Ajax-enabled server controls that makes creating Ajax applications extremely easy. No javascript coding is required when using Gaia; you simply leverage your existing ASP.NET programming skills.

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Using Gaia with jQuery

As mentioned in the pevious article "Random Rotating Images with Gaia", Gaia uses the well known and very widely used Prototype.js library. As such certain compatibility issues can arise when using Gaia with other javascript libraries. This brief article examines how to deal with the compatibility issue.

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