The latest release of ComfortASP.NET allows so called selective updates. I have written a chat demo page to demonstrate the possibilities with this feature. Just open 2 or more Browsers and "simulate" a chat with multiple users... Daniel

Another major release for ComfortASP.NET comes today with the following improvements: - Fixed: Exception in ASP1.1 when Session timed out and ViewSate was saved in Session- Fixed: Error with ImageButton click Event in Mozilla Browsers- Added: PanelUpdater Control to mark and trigger selective updates- Added: ClientEventTextChange Control to...

Maybe you are interested in some upcoming features of ComfortASP.NET. Still going for the goal of pure server side programming, the next version of ComfortASP.NET comes with new Controls that provide some still missing features.The first Control is called "PanelUpdater" and is used for a so called selective update. You can drop the PanelUpdater...

Hello, some words about the new feature for ComfortASP.NET 0.4 that saves the ASP.NET ViewState into a server session. You might wonder why this feature is only available for ASP.NET 1.1 and not for ASP.NET 2.0. The answer is easy: ASP.NET 2.0 already supports Session ViewState, but it is switched off by default. The class that's required is...

Its here - another new ComfortASP.NET version with some more goodies: - Added: Integration of ComfortASP.NET via HttpHandler- Added: ComfortASP_Manager control with ViewState support- Added: Call "SetFocus" and "ScrollIntoView" via ComfortASP_Manager control- Added: Initial GET response is automatically compressed to save initial...

Back in 2006 with some Crawler infos and ComfortASP.NET. When you use the ASP.NET Page Property  Request.Browser.Crawler it is documented as:"Gets a value indicating whether the client browser is a Web crawler search engine." So, you may assume that there is already a built in Crawler detection in ASP.NET. But that's not the case! You...

ComfortASP.NET V0.32 was released today with some fixes and minor improvements: - Fixed: Switch to classic ASP.NET when a Web Crawler accesses the page- Fixed: ImageButton is working now, also with image map- Fixed: HiddenFormDisable for Mozilla now shows content- Fixed: Positioning of Splash Bitmap- Added: Configuration of ComfortASP Manager...

The ComfortASP.NET AJAX framework was released with a quick fix for SSL Web Sites. There are no more security warnings with V0.52. Because this is an important issue for SSL users you can now upgrade to V0.52. If you do not use SSL, you may not need to update - there were no other changes or improvements. Sorry for not testing SSL...

The ComfortASP.NET V0.51 AJAX framework was just released with the following improvements: - Added: Caching of client scripts to reduce traffic- Added: Control granularity of diff engine to balance traffic and CPU load- Added: Possibility to turn on a feature to prevent IE Memory leak- Added: Support for IE7 (Beta2)- Added: The following...

The comparison was recently updated. The CallbackPanel from Syncfusion Studio 4.1.0.50 / Essential Tools was added to the comparison. This CallbackPanel  allows AJAX callbacks similar to the Telerik r.a.d.callback framework. It seems that the Syncfusion framework utilizes the existing ASP.NET 2.0 client callback functionality to do...

ComfortASP.NET V0.50 was just released with the following improvements: - Added: Support for ASP.NET 2.0 Client Callbacks in parallel to ComfortASP.NET- Added: Support for more scripting scenarios- Added: Submit on enter key for password input box- Added: Support for Session State in StateServer or SQL Server- Fixed: Issue with...

The comparison was recently updated. The FastPage V1.1.0 framework was added in the comparison. FastPage is a very lightweight framework that does hidden postbacks always via IFRAME and transfers only differences. As a result the traffic for postbacks is very low! Allthough FastPage seems to be in an early stage of development and has a very...

A quick note to all testers of ComfortASP.NET out there. Thank you very much for the great feedback so far. Please don't be discouraged, if I cannot answer each single note. I read and consider them all!!! The next Version will arrive with a completely refactored implementation of the scripting engine. This will provide improved compatibility...

The comparison was updated with the following changes: OutPost V1.2 and Anthem V1.0.0 frameworks added MagicAJAX Version update "Support for Response.Redirect in AJAX postback" added "Support for Server.Transfer in AJAX postback" added

I want to speak out many thanks to all people that gave ComfortASP.NET a try and for the mostly very positive feedback. Here are some samples that gave me great motivation: "Your AJAX framework is very impressive, we are currently evaluating many AJAX frameworks and yours has the necessary features to be ready for use by...