Web 2.0 and all that…
Via Mike Gunderloy (again… if you’re not suscribed already, don’t know what you’re waiting for) I’ve found two amazing libraries for ASP .NET.
First, BusyBoxDotNet, a server control which displays a wait message on the page stating that the server is performing a time-consuming operation and unabling the user to do nothing else but wait. The message is shown on a layer which moves automatically when scrolling, and allows to gray out and lock the back of the page (that is, all the rest of it) while the message is displayed and the task is (hopefully) being performed, to dissapear without a fuss at the end. You can try a demo right here. Really useful. Kudos.
And second, hot in the Web 2.01 hype, we find MagicAjax.NET. It allows us to enter AJAX techniques on standard out-of-.the.box ASP .NET server controls, which I find particularly useful for applying AJAX on an already developed or well underway ASP .NET application. It also has a demo avaliable.
1 And no, it’s not only to make rounded borders to visible layers. Neither putting an RSS feed on your pages, neither using words such as sinergy, community, collaborative or even tags. Even if you place a Beta label neatly by the side of your application’s title, you fall short. Besides all that, you have to make your web application more intuitive, more responsive, more agile. Less goings to the server for information, at least in appeareance. Yes, it has to be as similar as possible to an old desktop application, even imitating them completely. Live and see.
