Dave shows why ASP.NET MVC is right at home with jQuery, the very popular javascript library to add AJAX functionality and UI pizzazz. He explains the basics of jQuery at a very high level, and points out several of the patterns of the framework … including ideas you might already be familiar with from the C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 language series on our site. This includes anonymous types, lambdas, method chaining and so on. Furthermore, Dave introduces us to the rich plugin library jQuery has to offer and uses the ScrollTo plugin on the Twix site. He further refactors the Timeline.ascx that displays the new dynamic listing of “twixes” (posts). Also, Dave shows how Firebug, the popular plugin to Firefox, can he us better understand what’s going on as our application uses AJAX to request additional posts from our ASP.NET MVC application without performing a full page refresh … analyzing the XMLHttpRequest to understand how the page is retrieving more posts in the timeline. He also discusses other usability issues such as accommodating browsers that don’t have JavaScript turned on.

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Duration: 28 Minutes, 19 Seconds
Recorded Using: Visual Studio 2008 or greater