http://www.RiderDesign.com/rss/default.aspxThe latest ASP.NET articles and news from RiderDesign.com.(c) 2007, RiderDesign, LLC. All rights reserved.60With Silverlight and the DeepZoom Composer it is very easy to create a pano viewer that lets one zoom, drag, and pan the panorama. With a few clicks in the DeepZoom Composer the pano viewer is up and running in a matter of minutes. In this article I'll show you how get a pano viewer up and running.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Panorama-viewer-with-Silverlight-and-DeepZoom.aspx5/19/2009 12:00:00 AMI recently discovered a great jQuery plugin called jQuery File Tree. With this plugin and a little server side logic, it is very easy to create a great looking client side file tree explorer. This article explains how to configure and customize jQuery File Tree.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery-and-ASP.NET.aspx11/2/2008 12:00:00 AMThis article will show you how to send an email with jQuery and an ASP.NET web service (asmx). Using the jQuery ajax method, we will submit the contact form information in JSON to the asmx service.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Sending-email-with-jQuery-and-a-Web-Service.aspx10/15/2008 12:00:00 AMThe jQuery Password Strength Meter is a great free plugin that provides realtime client side evaluation of your password, providing visual indication regarding the strength of the password. This article covers setting up, configuring and customization of the plugin.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Password-strength-validation-with-jQuery.aspx10/8/2008 12:00:00 AMA cool use for AJAX is to let users know if a particular username is available or not while they are filling out the registration form. In the previous article "Check username availability with MS AJAX" I covered how to accomplish this task with MS AJAX. With all the excitement about JQuery being bundled with .Net/Visual Studio I thought it a good idea show how to check username availability with JQuery.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Check-username-availability-with-JQuery-and-ASP.NET.aspx10/1/2008 12:00:00 AMThe 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. http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Eliminating-the-jump-to-top-of-page-behavior-of-the-Ajax-Toolkit-Rating-control.aspx10/4/2007 12:00:00 AMIn 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. http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Different-methods-for-creating-partial-page-updates.aspx9/2/2007 7:54:14 PMIn 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.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Build-an-MSDN-style-content-rater-with-ASP.NET,-MS-AJAX,-and-jQuery.aspx8/15/2007 12:00:00 AMThe 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.http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Random-Rotating-Images-with-Gaia.aspx8/14/2007 12:00:00 AMAs 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. http://www.riderdesign.com/articles/Using-Gaia-with-jQuery.aspx8/14/2007 12:00:00 AM