ASP.NET 2.0 Page LifeCycle

A while back I was looking for a detailed explanation of ASP.NET 2.0's Page LifeCycle. After a bit of searching I finally ran across an excellent chart created by Leon Andrianarivony.

His chart is the best visual depiction of ASP.NET 2.0's Page LifeCycle that I have seen yet. I'd be interested in any others you might have seen or created.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

I jumped on the ASP.NET AJAX bandwagon when the Release Candidate came out. I've heard a lot about it ever since it was called 'ATLAS', but I had never played around with it until recently.

The Official 1.0 Release version came out on January 23, 2005 and the Full Source Code became available today.

Along with the framework, you can download the AJAX Control Toolkit. You can demonstrate the controls from this toolkit on their test website.

I am quite impressed at the easy, speed, stability, and breadth of the framework and controls. If you haven't played around with this yet, then you are missing out on some excitement!

Firebug 1.0 Beta

For those of you who use Firefox, you should check out the Firebug 1.0 beta extension! I had used the old version for quite some time, but I was blown away with the great enhancments in the 1.0 beta version.

Here are some of its features...

• Just the way you like it


• Inspect and edit HTML


• Tweak CSS to perfection


• Visualize CSS metrics


• Monitor network activity


• Debug and profile JavaScript


• Quickly find errors


• Explore the DOM


• Execute JavaScript on the fly


• Logging for JavaScript

Here is what Rich Strahl had to say about it...

"I’ve been using Visual Studio’s JavaScript debugging most of the time, but with Firebug in this state I’ve been able to move most of my debugging – except for IE specific issues which are unfortunately quite common – into Firebug.

Highly recommended."