February 2008 Entries

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ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed Errata: ASP.NET AJAX Authentication

Well, I guess it is too much to hope that there would not be any errors in an almost 2,000 page book. Bertrand Le Roy sent me an email pointing out a security hole in one of my code samples

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 9:23 AM
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Creating JavaScript Properties in ASP.NET AJAX

JavaScript (or more accurately, ECMAScript 3.0) does not support properties. JavaScript objects do not have properties in the same sense as C# or VB.NET objects have properties. That’s unfortunate, since there are benefits to...

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 8:29 AM
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JavaScript Magic Properties: Using __count__ , __proto__ , and __parent__

Two of the Mozilla implementations of the JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey and Rhino, support a special list of magic properties. Because SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used by Firefox, this means that you can use...

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:58 AM